Peer Counselor - Youth Partner; FBH Certified Peer Counselor

Overview

HIRING A PEER COUNSELOR - YOUTH PARTNER (With lived experience to provide strength-based community mental health services) Vancouver, WA (Located near the Vancouver Mall)

Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for a Peer Counselor (Youth Partner) who wants to join our team of innovators who continually "push the envelope" and challenges traditional thinking in Behavioral Health.

We are a values-driven organization, providing family oriented mental health care for children, youth and families in their own home and community. Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own home with their family, restoring hope with promise, providing intense mental health services and supports, and helping to strengthen the family unity.

With sites located in Western Washington including Vancouver/Portland Metro area, we offer comprehensive intensive, Wrap-around mental health services to a diverse population for youth and families. We employ nearly 800 caring and compassionate employees.

Compassion Diversity Strength-Based-Approach Social-Justice & Our Staff!

• Base Pay Rate: $25.18-$27.07

Additional Pay for:

• First Responder pay: $75.00 per pay period (2 times per month)
• Ability to earn additional pay: based on performance

Training and Supervision:

• Extensive training (i.e. WISe, De-Escalation, etc.)
• Daily supervision and support, as needed

• 12 paid holidays; plus 1 personal holiday each year!
• 3 weeks' vacation per year
• 12 sick-days per year
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Plans: 403-B Employee Savings Plan and an Employer Contribution Pension

We strive to help children and families live together safely and securely with hope and promise. We serve as a catalyst for change when appropriate, challenging long-standing service traditions in community behavioral health. We behave with Humility, Passion for our Mission, and Compassion and Respectful Interactions. We value learning and offer alternatives and we stand strong to help child-serving systems understand our alternative paradigm while strengthening partnerships.

We do not compromise our values.

Peer Counselors (Youth Partners) are individuals with personal history as a youth/child who has been a recipient of behavioral health, child welfare, complex medical coordination or juvenile justice services who use that personal experience in building support with families. Successful applicants must have first person experience as a youth who received system services and prepared to disclose their personal experiences with youth, parents and others.

Youth Partners collaborate, provide support and help facilitate services for youth and their families receiving Family Behavioral Health Services. Working as a member of a team, the Youth Partner helps a youth voice their own perspective and assure that other team members are able to understand their perspective and use that perspective in treatment planning. This position helps youth, parents and families achieve confidence in their abilities to team on a recovery journey and maintain hope for their success after formal behavioral health services have been completed.

Emphasis is on achieving incredible outcomes with children, youth and families by actively partnering with them along with their natural and community services and supports to achieve long term safety and stability in our neighborhoods and communities.

This position will be based out of FBH Vancouver, Oak View site. It may include time working from home, in the office and with scheduling flexibility to provide services to youth and families in the community and in their homes, as needed.

A full job description with qualifications may be shared with candidates identified for an interview.

What We Are Seeking In A Candidate:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Age 21 or older.
• Personal (lived) experience as a child/youth who has received community / mental health services within the past ten years.
• Must have an acceptable driving record per CCS’ driving policy (required to…