Youth Resource Coordinator​/Community Engagement Liaison

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Regular Full Time D Care Professional New Vista Regional Prevention Center, Lexington, KY, US 1 Attachments

If you are mission driven and want to help the lives of people in your community, we have a place for you on our Team!

The Youth Resource Coordinator is responsible for coordinating Regional Interagency Council Meetings, and the Local Interagency Council meetings. The RIAC mission is to promote healthy children and transition-age youth (16-25) across Kentucky by building a collaborative system of care through social, emotional, and behavioral well-being. The ideal candidate must be initiative-taking, and displays strong organizational and communication skills, as well as an expert in building and sustaining relationships with community partners and members.

The Youth Resource Coordinator is a positive collaborator that promotes a culture of inclusion and participation. This candidate must have a natural passion for assisting youth and families through multiple systematic levels.

• Bachelor’s degree in human service-related field and three years experience working with children’s issues and programming
• Experience coordinating, facilitating meetings and working collaboratively with community partners
• Knowledge and experience with different child-serving systems, including education, mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, health and others
• Extensive knowledge of community resources
• Valid driver’s license, reliable operating transportation, and proof of current auto insurance

• Experience working with children/youth who have complex behavioral health needs
• Comfort in grant review, writing, and submission
• Understands and manages multiple grant budgets

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Staffing and coordinating Regional Interagency Council (RIAC) meetings in the three New Vista RIAC regions
• Coordinating the Local Interagency Council (LIAC) meetings in the New Vista counties in which they exist and assuring New Vista staff involvement as appropriate in the LIAC meetings
• Building community relationships and promoting New Vista services when appropriate
• Working within the RIACs, LIACs and other community partnerships to promote resource development within New Vista communities

While we welcome all to apply, there are some position specific background stipulations that must be met to comply with various regulatory and contractual requirements.

New Vista prohibits discrimination and harassment against any applicant, employee or contractor based on sex, race, color, age, national or ethnic origin, religion, physical disability, mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, working conditions, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, wage and salary administration, employee benefits and training.

It is also the company’s policy to prohibit all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, encouraged another to complain, participated in an investigation into such complaints, or opposed unlawful discrimination.