Bilingual Violence Prevention Coordinator

Job Title: Bilingual Violence Prevention Coordinator (English/Spanish)

Supervised By: Director of Prevention Praxis

Hours & Status: Full-Time, 40 hours per week (non-exempt) with some flexibility and occasional evenings/weekends

Salary & Benefits: $22-26 per hour; 4 weeks of PTO which increases to 6 weeks at 2 years; 12 paid holidays; health, dental and vision benefits; HSA or FSA with employer match;
Simple IRA with employer match; EAP

Prevention Praxis is Safe Haven’s program focused on domestic violence and human trafficking prevention throughout West Michigan, across the state and nationally. There are four key focus areas of Prevention Praxis:
Praxis Community;
Praxis Youth;
Praxis Faith and Praxis Fellows – initiatives under each of these areas target different sectors and audiences. The Violence Prevention Coordinator is providing services and facilitates training across all Prevention Praxis programs, with a particular focus on Praxis Youth programming.

Praxis Youth is a comprehensive youth-focused, domestic violence and human trafficking prevention and education initiative dedicated to cultivating safer environments through comprehensive education, community leadership engagement, policy advocacy, and multi-sector coalition work. Praxis Youth engages and partners with local schools and youth-serving organizations to bring youth violence and human trafficking prevention and education to youth and their families through programming and curricula like My Voice Matters and Young Leaders Against Violence (YLAV).

When the Violence Prevention Coordinator is leading initiatives under Praxis Community, Praxis Faith and Praxis Fellows, they will be doing similar work of developing and facilitating trainings, supporting individuals and organizations to increase their commitment to violence prevention and working to improve systems that support healthy and safer communities.

Safe Haven Ministries—a nonprofit organization located in Grand Rapids, Michigan—believes in a multi-faceted approach to serving victims/survivors of relationship abuse and human trafficking, as well as preventing violence in our community. Safe Haven offers comprehensive supportive services, including: confidential emergency shelter; housing services; 24/7 crisis support; psycho-educational support groups; individual case management and advocacy; and primary prevention training and outreach for the entire community.

Program trainings, policy development and systems change

• Develop and facilitate in-person, virtual, and pre-recorded training presentations that align with Prevention Praxis goals
• Facilitate Praxis Community, Praxis Youth, Praxis Faith and Praxis Fellows trainings
• Provide administrative support with regard to prevention event planning details
• Coordinate and facilitate My Voice Matters prevention programming and curricula tailored for children, youth, and their families.
• Coordinate and oversee the Young Leaders Against Violence (YLAV) initiative, through a specialized leadership curriculum rooted in My Voice Matters core tenets.
• Work to ensure that program activities, outputs, and outcomes are clearly defined and assessed on a continual basis; ensure timely and accurate data collection and evaluation
• Cultivate and sustain partnerships with local schools, youth serving organizations, educators, and community mentors.
• Translate documents, graphics, and other content for Prevention Praxis and outreach programming
• Strengthen relationships and create shared spaces for community partners and stakeholders to actively work towards the mutual goal of preventing youth violence
• Engage in ongoing data collection and evaluation as it relates to violence…