Part-Time Youth Program Mentor; Community-Based Program​/Hayward

Part-Time Youth Program Mentor (Community-Based Program / Hayward)

Lincoln Families is a workplace that is committed to strengths-based, culturally responsive, attachment-centered, and trauma-informed care.

PROGRAM: Kinship

HOURLY RATE
: $28.00 (fully benefitted)

IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT POSITION:

• Part Time: 20 hours per week; fully benefitted
• Required Days: Monday-Friday and 2nd Saturday of every month
• Required
  
  Hours:
  
  2:30pm-6:30pm
• Location: Hayward

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KINSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES
:
Children do best when they remain in safe, stable, and familiar environments that relatives can provide. Relative caregivers are the backbone of the child welfare system, stepping up to fill the gaps when challenges take parents away from raising their children. Many are grandparents with special needs linked to age, poverty, poor health, and lack of support and resources.

WHAT WE DO
:
Lincoln Families’ Kinship program provides supports to kin caregivers so they have the resources needed to raise their relative. Since 2001, our staff have addressed the unique needs of each caregiver and child, providing a variety of supports:

• Family Coaching - Providing advocacy and referral for financial assistance, legal supports, mental health, emergency, and education services
• Education and Skill Building - Offering programs including parenting and school advocacy to prepare and inform caregivers and youth
• Youth Engagement - Providing children and teen activity groups, social and recreational outings, tutoring, and workshop events
• Support Groups - Facilitating gatherings of caregivers to share joys and concerns, learn about resources, and support each other

OUR WHY
:
Children in foster care can face exposure to alcohol and other drugs, abuse, neglect and abandonment, violence in their homes and communities, trauma from separation from birth families, and frequent changes in foster care placement. These experiences place children at greater risk of developing physical, emotional, and behavioral problems that can lead to school failure, teen pregnancy, homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration.

Research shows that living with relatives is better for children and benefits them in many ways. Of children who are not living with their biological parents, 75% of them are being raised by a relative outside of the formal foster care system. Such kin caregivers have little or no time to prepare for this new arrangement and face major barriers in accessing information, benefits, legal assistance, and services.

POSITION SUMMARY: Reporting to the Youth Program Coordinator, the Youth Program Mentor is responsible for planning and implementing enrichment programs during after school hours and support groups. Program Assistant will lead academic, recreation, and enrichment activities for kinship children and youth.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Assists Youth Program Coordinator in planning, development and implementation of the program educational, enrichment, and recreational activities; and family events designed to address program goals.
• Works with students in small groups on homework assignments and various enrichment activities.
• Helps youth develop and utilize their strengths, interests, and skills with check-ins and goal setting.
• Makes regular contact with youth clients at kinship locations, schools, client s home, or in the community. This requires reliable transportation and ability to transport clients.
• Completes youth intakes. Greets and invites participation of new kinships children and youth. Fosters introductions among young kinship clients, supervises and redirects as needed children and youth during all activities including after school, weekend, and support group enrichment activities, and family events.
• Researches and connects kinship youth with community resources to support youth's goals related to life skills, educational, social and recreational development.
• Safeguards the dignity and protects the rights and individuality of each kin family under their supervision.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries and remains in compliance with HIPAA privacy laws.
• Takes attendance, completes and maintains all service documentation and statistics as required.

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