Peer Leadership Coordinator

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The Peer Leadership Coordinator (PLC) works in one of the Youth and Young Adult (YYA) Access Centers (ACs) to coordinate YYA leadership activities, conduct engagement activities and ensure youth voice is reflected throughout the AC. The PLC is a key member of the AC leadership team.

• Works with YYA (if YYA chooses) to enhance skills of self-direction and empowerment.
• Provides outreach and engagement activities that lead to the establishment of a Young Adult Leadership Council.
• Provides outreach and marketing efforts to educate YYA and other stakeholders in the community about the program and services offered.
• Acts as staff liaison to the Young Adult Leadership Council.
• Promotes YYA participation in other local and statewide leadership councils, such as the Department of Mental Health (DMH) Statewide Mental Health Planning Council Youth Development Subcommittee.
• As a member of the AC leadership team, ensures YYA decision making power is present in all aspects of the AC operation.
• Supports YYA and facilitates and promotes YYA voice in policy and programmatic decisions and service design and improvement to ensure services are relevant.
• Coordinates the inclusion of YYA in the interview and hiring of all staff positions.
• Arranges trainings/forum in collaboration with the AC Program Director that are based on YYA feedback and are opportunities that include both YYA and staff.
• Develops volunteer opportunities through networking efforts for YYA to give back to the community.
• Helps YYA in developing supportive relationships and community connections.
• Helps YYA in communicating and working effectively with service providers, employers, natural supports, family members, and others to achieve their goals.
• Promotes healthy lifestyles and wellness practices including substance use.
• Educates DMH and AC staff around engagement strategies that retain YYA in services.
• Helps YYA in developing life skills, finding their voice, and identifying and using their strengths.
• Uses Achieve My Plan, Gathering, and Inspiring Future Talent, motivational interviewing, harm reductions and other evidence-informed/based and best practice models as trained, models effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
• Promotes discovery and recovery as they use their own lived experience in a purposeful, strength‑based way to support YYA.
• Inspires hope and future focus in YYA.
• Provides social activities for YYA, whether at the AC or in the community.
• Attends in-service trainings and staff meetings.
• Helps YYA develop self‑advocacy skills, in groups or individually.
• Helps maximize choices available to YYA as well as their self‑determination, and participation and decision‑making in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of their services.
• Helps YYA link to other community services and peer networks, both in person and virtual, including services and networks for people with co‑occurring disorders – including mutual help and peer support groups.
• Models effective coping techniques and self‑help strategies.
• Provides crisis intervention, when needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

• A fully funded, employer‑sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee‑funded 403(b) plan
• First‑rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open to all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer‑paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long‑Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer‑paid Short‑Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short‑Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous…