Peer Mentor

Rising Ground, Inc. • New York, NY

10h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Peer Mentor will facilitate parenting skills training and related workshops, organize community projects, and conduct outreach and recruitment for the program. Develop relationships with community-based organizations that will serve as ongoing referral sources. The Peer Mentor will achieve specific target recruitment goals each quarter for the Brooklyn and Harlem location.

Requirements

• Lived experience as a father that has either disconnected from and or had supervised visitation with a child.
• Has a history of being an effective group leader with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good verbal and written communication are essential
• Computer proficient

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus

Responsibilities

• The Peer Mentor will collaborate with the directors to develop and implement a recruitment strategy to identify fathers.
• The Peer Mentor will support the Fatherhood Initiative to deliver eight required activities: 1. Orientation, 2. Parenting Skills Training, 3. Supervised Visitation Coaching, 4. Case Management, 5. Community Projects, 6. Support Groups, 7. Family Events, and 8. Workshops.
• The Peer Mentor will support The Fatherhood Initiative serve and customize services for fathers with varying levels of child visitation, coparent engagement, court and agency orders, skills, and needs. Fatherhood will offer four service tier options to participants. The Fatherhood Initiative will implement parenting skills training to participants with two different curricula: ProFatherhing15 and Supporting Father Involvement (SFI).
• Provide individual, family and group counseling, provide direct services/case planning to clients including mediation/conflict resolution training to fathers to facilitate effective co-parenting and visitation. When necessary, Case Managers will assist with supervised or monitored visitation opportunities for fathers.
• Enter progress notes in DYCD data system of record.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees