Youth Mentor (On Call)

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Reports any incidents/accidents according to incident reporting procedures and protocols, within designated timelines as outlined in the reporting procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of all pertinent client information.
• Meets and provides mentoring support and services with clients in-person a minimum of every 3 months for mentoring adoptive minor youth and for mentoring adoptive families.
• Mentors must maintain monthly contact with youth and family. Phone, virtual and in-person meetings will vary based on family/youth’s needs.
• Mentors must make an initial phone contact with client within 3 business days of being assigned a new case.
• Mentor/support prospective and adoptive parents and adoptive youth.
• Mentoring services to adoptive parents would include providing insight into the adoption process, sharing personal experience, and assistance throughout the adoption process.
• Mentoring adoptive children would include, offering a stable source of support to children, using them through the adoption process and assisting child in working through internal struggles in a n effort for child to secure permanency with an adoptive family.
• Completes monthly contact notes that document all phone, face to face, email, and text communications with families.
• Attends monthly supervision meetings with APSS supervisor.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: APSS Mentor is a Paraprofessional position with no minimum degree requirement, but applicant must possess the expertise and experience necessary to provide direct client services as required.
• Ability to work collaboratively with members of interdisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated awareness, sensitivity and competence in dealing with culturally, socio-economically diverse client population.
• Working knowledge of computer programs, preferably accessing email and using Microsoft Word.
• Bilingual Spanish (preferable not required).
• Has reliable transportation.
• Lived experience related to adoption (adoptive parent or adoptee).

Benefits

• Paid Sick Leave
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match up to 4%
• Employee referral program
• Encourages your colleagues to join us
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible

Pay

The hourly wage range for this role is $24.00 - $25.00.