Enrichment Specialist

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Full Time - Hourly Service Anchorage, AK, US

Salary Range: $20.00 To $22.75 Hourly

The Enrichment Specialist provides direct support and structured activities to children, adolescents, and families experiencing housing instability. This role focuses on promoting emotional, social, and behavioral development through individualized and group-based enrichment activities. The specialist works collaboratively with families, care team members, and community partners to foster resilience, build life skills, and support family driven goals.

CSS is a Catholic human and social services agency and behavioral health care provider that welcomes people of all faiths through its programs and employment. We provide help for our Alaskan neighbors through a variety of supportive service programs, including emergency shelter, food stability, housing, case management, and refugee assistance. CSS empowers individuals and families on their path to permanent stability, creating thriving communities for all.

Located in Anchorage, Alaska, CSS is a nationally accredited organization through the Council on Accreditation (COA), which recognizes that CSS provides high quality services that meet best practice standards in the social service field.

• Offering charitable assistance to those in need, especially persons who are poor
• Developing and conducting programs to strengthen and support families and the dignity of the human spirit
• Administering the Corporal Works of Mercy and Gospel of Jesus Christ as defined by the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church and envisioned by the traditional concepts of Catholic Social Teaching and Action through the laity
• And advocating for social justice for the common good of all

This program provides supportive services to youth and families who are unhoused in the Anchorage community. The program is dedicated to helping youth and families move from crisis to stability, improving their quality of life, and empowering them to achieve their full potential. Through this collaborative, trauma-informed approach, we support each youth and family in their unique journey towards healing, stability, and lasting well-being.

We do this by providing behavioral health support, health and wellness, housing assistance, and peer support.

Accountability:
Takes ownership for delivering on commitments; accepts responsibility for mistakes and uses them as opportunities for learning and development; openly discusses their actions and their consequences both good and bad; has an ability to identify strengths and developmental opportunities and leverages insight to adjust to improve their effectiveness; courage to have difficult conversations.

Initiative:
Ability to identify the need for change and take steps to begin and follow through with plans to make the change.

Adapting to Change:
Accepts and adapts to change in a professionally appropriate and thoughtful manner. Is willing to offer a different perspective or approach and yet knows when and how to stand down graciously and accept a well-thought-out decision. Embraces change.

Confidentiality:
Maintains the highest level of confidentiality regarding CSS’s records and information. Appropriately uses internal confidential information for business purposes only.

Communicating Effectively:
Shares information. Listens and involves others. Clearly conveys ideas in a manner that engages others and helps them understand and retain the message.

Cultural Humility:
Practices self-reflection and mindfulness of power imbalances in service…