Parent Mentor

ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION & STRATEGIES

Young Roots Oregon (YRO) is a community-focused Oregon-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in Albany that began in 2019 as a grassroots movement. Our mission is to creatively empower young families in Linn and Benton counties to build healthy foundations. Our multi-generational vision is to give adolescent parents and their children equitable opportunities for growth through a collaborative approach of resource partnership and innovative services.

Strategies of care for young families include building equitable pathways that promote academic achievement, improving psychological and physical health, strengthening parent-child relationships, providing parent-to-parent support, brokering partnerships between parents and community agencies to expand and deepen parents' social support network, and decreasing income, food, diapering, and housing insecurities. Together, these approaches work to increase social mobility and educational and economic attainment by the parent and to minimize and prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress that cause life-long health disparities, child welfare interventions, foster care placements, and generational poverty, which benefits the overall health and success of our community as a whole.

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It shall be the operational policy of this Corporation not to discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion, creed, marital status, national origin, disability, or political belief. This policy includes but is not exclusive of hiring, firing, layoffs, promotions, wages, training, disciplinary action, or any other terms, privileges, conditions, or benefits or employment, as well as non-discrimination in the providing of any services offered by this Corporation.

Mentor: Parent Mentors partner with young parents using a strength-based approach in building off of the parent/family strengths to empower resilience by supporting personal goals, connect with peers to gain a greater sense of belonging, and by connecting with resources to gain stability of basic needs, to reduce stress, and then progress into developing and growing adult life skills to promote long term family safety and stability.

This position specifically is to provide mentoring support to young fathers ages teen to 24 years old with a possibility of extending into older ages if they are partnered with a young mother. The Fathering Mentor will provide support to young fathers whose primary languages are Spanish and English. The Parent Mentor Program is supervised by Director Blanca Sanchez.

• a. Providing support during events and classes; various coordination responsibilities including physically setting up tables and chairs, food preparation, transportation, and clean up, along with relational support to families during the event.
• b. Helping care for children if the Kid Roots program needs support.
• c. Attending community training, events, and meetings; building and maintaining good partnerships with other resource agencies to ensure Young Roots Oregon stays in good standing within our community, and creating wrap-around support for young families.
• d. Providing translation review for various forms and documents.

• Parenting experience is required, with lived experience as an adolescent parent or being a child of an adolescent parent is valued.
• Fully confident and fluent in Spanish and English; verbal and written cognitive understanding.
• Experience in navigating government systems and working with community partners.
• Experience in…