COMMUNITY PREVENTION SPECIALIST

Apis Services Inc•Vincennes, IN

7d•$38,500 - $40,000•Onsite

About The Position

Spend your days building the kind of place you wish existed when you were a teenager. As a Prevention Specialist with CFS, Corp., you will be a core staff member of the Vincennes Teen Center, a safe, welcoming space where youth find after-school activities, theater arts, and adults who show up for them. You will also take prevention into the community, leading open forums, Overdose Lifeline programming, nutrition workshops, and naloxone trainings in public libraries across Knox, Daviess, and Sullivan Counties. This is a newly funded, salaried position backed by a four-year federal award, with health insurance, retirement, and paid support to earn your IC&RC Prevention Specialist credential. Your schedule is built around when youth need you most: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you are creative, energetic, and ready to be the reason a young person chooses a different path, we want to meet you.

Requirements

Demonstrates understanding of CFS, Corp. mission, vision, core values, and strategic plan.
Handles information in a confidential manner. Maintains absolute security and confidentiality of all client records.
Understands and utilizes established policies and procedures in making decisions.
Dependable, accepts responsibility for attendance and punctuality. Effectively utilizes time.
Performs work according to standards of conduct, regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Flexible, adjusts work to accommodate changes in priorities and workload.
Maintains professional and respectful relations with others.
Presents a neat, clean, and professional appearance.
Sets a good example for others by own self-discipline and behavior.
Does not engage in activities other than official business during working hours.
Understands and utilizes established agency policies and procedures in making decisions but uses sound independent judgment in meeting the responsibilities and performing the duties of the position.

Nice To Haves

Paid support to earn your IC&RC Prevention Specialist credential.

Responsibilities

Be a core staff member of the Vincennes Teen Center, a safe, welcoming space where youth find after-school activities, theater arts, and adults who show up for them.
Take prevention into the community, leading open forums, Overdose Lifeline programming, nutrition workshops, and naloxone trainings in public libraries across Knox, Daviess, and Sullivan Counties.
Attend and participate in all required new hire, annual, and other assigned training and attend meetings as assigned.
Attend scheduled staff meetings, group meetings, and other staff and group activities essential for effective program and service delivery, and to promote communications and the proper flow of relevant information.
Attend and participate in outreach activities and events hosted or sponsored by the corporation.
Performs other work as required or assigned.
Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team.