Summer Student - Youth Services Worker

Sioux Lookout First Nations Health AuthoritySioux Lookout, ON
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.
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