Health Advocate

Mixteca • New York, NY

9d • $26 - $27 • Onsite

About The Position

Mixteca is seeking a compassionate, grounded, and community-centered Mental Health Advocate to support Spanish-speaking immigrant participants, including survivors of trauma and gender-based violence. This role is ideal for someone who believes healing happens not only through one-on-one support, but also through culture, community, connection, and collective care. The Mental Health Advocate provides trauma-informed emotional support, facilitates healing-centered spaces, connects participants to services, and helps strengthen Mixteca’s mental health programming. We are especially interested in candidates who bring experience working with immigrant communities and who value traditional, ancestral, body-based, expressive arts, or other culturally rooted healing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Human Services, Art Therapy, or a related field, or equivalent community-based experience in nonprofit, mental health, advocacy, or healing-centered settings.
• Fluency in Spanish and English, with strong verbal and written communication skills in both languages.
• Experience working with immigrant communities, particularly Spanish-speaking communities impacted by trauma, migration, family separation, or violence.
• Ability to build trust and create safe, welcoming, and culturally affirming spaces.
• Strong outreach, facilitation, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage documentation and follow-up.
• Proactive, collaborative, and solution-oriented approach to work.
• Commitment to social justice, anti-racism, and the dignity, resilience, and leadership of immigrant communities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting survivors of gender-based violence, LGBTQIA+ community members, youth, and working-class communities strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with traditional, ancestral, body-based, expressive arts, or other community-rooted healing practices is strongly preferred.
• Community-rooted, ancestral, Indigenous, or non-Western healing knowledge and practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive support to Spanish-speaking immigrant participants experiencing trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, family separation, and gender-based violence.
• Conduct intakes, needs assessments, and individualized support plans.
• Provide one-on-one counseling, emotional support, crisis intervention, safety planning, and ongoing follow up.
• Facilitate healing spaces, support groups, workshops, and wellness activities that promote safety, connection, and community healing.
• Help design and implement healing-centered programming that reflects the lived experiences, cultures, and strengths of immigrant communities.
• Conduct outreach and help develop culturally relevant mental health education materials.
• Provide referrals and connections to legal, healthcare, housing, public benefits, and other community-based services.
• Support participants in navigating systems and accessing resources through a holistic, participant-centered approach.
• Collaborate with colleagues across programs to ensure strong, coordinated participant support.
• Maintain accurate case notes, records, and program data in compliance with agency and funder requirements.
• Represent Mixteca in community meetings, events, and partner spaces as needed.
• Perform other related duties as needed to support program and organizational goals.

Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations are available upon request.
• Training will be provided for mandated reporter status.
• Hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek are compensated in accordance with Mixteca's overtime policy and applicable wage-and-hour law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree