Health Education Advocate - Family Planning

OCO•Oswego, NY

101d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Oswego County Opportunities (OCO) as a Family Planning Advocate and make a meaningful impact supporting youth, adults, and families across your community. In this dynamic, field-based role, you’ll provide supportive counseling, education, and hands-on advocacy while connecting individuals to essential reproductive and overall health services. You’ll lead engaging community-based education on various sexual health topics, while also coordinating care, conducting assessments, and guiding clients toward positive outcomes. This position is ideal for someone who is compassionate, adaptable, and motivated to work both independently and collaboratively—building strong partnerships with schools, providers, and community organizations to empower individuals and improve health outcomes across diverse populations.

Requirements

Must be able to work independently and be self-motivated, resourceful, organized and adaptable in carrying out job duties
Must be familiar with the geographical layout of the county and have knowledge of human service resources in the county
Must have public speaking skills and creativity for making presentations on sensitive issues to various groups.
Must have demonstrated ability to work with others in a warm, non-judgmental manner and be a positive role model.
Must exhibit professionalism, good judgment and maintain strict confidentiality with regard to client information.
Must exhibit detailed knowledge of regulations, services, rights and responsibilities for the population served.
Must be flexible with work schedule to meet the needs of the program
Must have acceptable health to carry out the responsibilities of the position.
Must have a valid NYS Driver’s license with driving record within policy and access to a properly insured, reliable vehicle for regular travel and transporting consumers.
Must have a Bachelor's Degree in a Human Services area
Must have 1 to 3 years experience with children, youth, families or a special population
Any equivalent combination of education, experience and training.

Responsibilities

Provides crisis intervention, supportive counseling, advocacy and solution focused decision making for children, youth and families.
Works with individuals seeking reproductive health service, experiencing sexual health issues, and/or seeking other health services.
Provides connection to unintended pregnancy prevention related health care services and basic information about the Family Planning Program
Ensures safe and discreet connection to needed pregnancy prevention resources such as condoms, birth control etc.
Responds to consumers who are contacting in person, through a variety of multimedia avenues and on the phone to provide information about services & the status of their services,
Works as part of a team to provide home visits, assessments, and education to increase health outcomes, provide services, support and follow-up.
Advocates, accompanies and/or negotiates on behalf of consumers.
Provide trainings and Evidence Based Programs to youth & community partners on comprehensive sexual health topics including: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Trauma Informed Care, LGBTQ+ Inclusivity, STD/HIV & Hepatitis prevention, PrEP & PEP, and harm reduction.
Works cooperatively with schools, community members, agencies and other service providers.
Informs consumers of available services in the community and assists with the referral of primary and secondary consumers to services and monitors the provision of services to all consumers.
Develops and maintains assessments, individualized service plans and service coordination activities for children, youth and families.
Provides the teaching and coaching of life skills; facilitates education and support groups as assigned.
Provides or arranges transportation to enable consumers to connect with needed community resources.
Collaborates with community partners in the development and implementation of joint protocols; to ensure compliance with regulations and eligibility requirements.
Create and distribute culturally competent, evidence-based educational materials tailored to diverse populations
Assists in training program staff and community partners in specialized topic areas as assigned.
Attends internal and external meetings as assigned and assists in meeting facilitation as required.
Completes all documentation as required including electronic records; documents for billable services, as required.
Assists manager in organizing and facilitating partnership meetings to advance the objectives of the project
Tracking and compiling statistics related to program activities and outcomes and completing reports for various project stakeholders
Staying up to date with best practices in the field and sharing information with project partners and co-workers
Develops and maintains effective working relationships with community partners, such as schools, medical providers, and other services
Conducts rapid HIV screening including pre and posttest counseling and assessments
Carries out other special projects as assigned.