Youth Engagement Advocate
Center for Youth Services•City of Rochester, NY
19d
About The Position
The Youth Engagement Advocate provides intensive case management and advocacy for commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth in order to access services, including medical, mental health, financial, emergency shelter and other basic living and safety needs. This position will assist CSE youth in crisis intervention, problem solving, action planning and skill building in order to address immediate life and safety issues, reduce the risk of continued sexual exploitation and abuse. The Advocate will provide outreach to other agencies and community partners across Monroe County in order to identify CSE and coordinate immediate access to needed services and supports.
Requirements
- Adhere to ethical conduct
- Demonstrate professionalism i.e., timely, dependable, responsible, flexible
- Be non-judgmental and respectful
- Model principles of inclusion and tolerance
- Be youth centered and positive
- Be family friendly
- Establish effective working relationships with supervisor and co-workers /
- Develop positive relationships with all key stakeholders
- Have strong literacy skills (i.e., reading, writing, comprehension)
- Have excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Conduct research and apply best-practices and evaluation methods
- Effectively promote knowledge and skill development and positive behaviors
- Provide leadership and/or work independently as requested
- Adolescent development including: positive youth development, asset development, risk reduction and protective factors
- Youth serving systems
- Community resources
- Client advocacy
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in human services, education or a related field; and (2) two years of experience with navigating systems and crisis case management, or an equivalent combination of education, employment and life experience.
- Authorization for the agency to obtain driving record information
- Proof of a satisfactory physical exam within the last 12 months including a PPD and annually thereafter.
- A valid driver's license
- Regular access to a motor vehicle
- Automobile insurance at the level of $100,000 per person/$300,000 per accident Bodily Injury and $50,000 Property Damage
- Candidates must be able to be autonomously mobile in order to provide the required services.
Nice To Haves
- A Master's degree is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Crisis Intervention
- Case Management & youth advocacy
- Individual Counseling
- Community Outreach to youth-serving agencies
- Maintain client confidentiality, consistent with Center policies
- Referral readiness and referral services
- After-hours response, assessment and intake of youth in need
- Accurate and timely case and program record keeping
- Representation of the agency on community committees, coalitions, etc., as assigned
- Effectively manage time to meet responsibilities
- Engage youth to offer services and referrals
- Participation in supervision, staff meetings and trainings
- Transportation of Clients, when required and consistent with agency policies
- Other duties as assigned
