Summer Student - Youth Services Worker

Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority•Sioux Lookout, ON

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Youth Services Worker Student will be a part of the Youth Development section of Raising our Children, and will work to engage youth, develop youth programming, and build community capacity.

Requirements

Persons of First Nations ancestry will be given preference (OHRC, Part II, Special Employment).
Willingness and ability to support program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Experience working with youth, and especially First Nations youth
Must possess excellent communication skills, i.e. listening, oral, and written English skills, public speaking, making presentations
Must have strong interpersonal skills
Comfortable using computers for tasks such as word processing, spreadsheets, basic graphics, and other office-related technology, with a willingness to learn new software and tools.
Ability to perform the requirements of the role on a regular basis

Responsibilities

Supports and builds positive working relationships with community health leaders and youth program staff by assisting with projects, learning about programs, and helping promote awareness of services.
Develops and supports a social media strategy, health promotion activities, and resources to engage youth.
Assists in supporting communities with the development of Youth Councils by helping create simple resources, templates, and gathering best practices under staff guidance.
Supports and builds capacity of community-based workers through: Acting as a mentor; Developing and providing resources on the promotion of public health for youth; Providing training; Conducting workshops; Creating a network of youth workers.
Builds capacity of youth around priority health issues.
Conducts health promotion initiatives through community visits, school visits, videoconferences, webinars, radio shows, social media, etc.
Identifies and develops potential partnerships for regional and community-based youth programming.
Develops and shares best practices for youth community wellbeing programming.
Promotes SLFNHA's Approaches to Community Wellbeing.
Actively participates on committees and other working groups as a representative for SLFNHA.
Advocates for youth to enhance health equity.
Performs other duties for SLFNHA as directed.