Bilingual Community Collaboration Project Associate

Position:
Bilingual Community Collaboration Project Associate

Location:

Schaumburg, IL Job :  # of Openings: 1 BILINGUAL COMMUNITY COLLABORATION PROJECT ASSOCIATE

Kenneth Young Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit dedicated to providing comprehensive outpatient behavioral health services to individuals of all walks of life. Located in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, we offer a wide range of services including outpatient therapeutic care, recovery-oriented support, community prevention, LGBTQ+ outreach, older adult services, and crisis intervention. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities.

Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities.

Kenneth Young Center offers arobust benefit package that is highly competitive to the market and offers all full-time employees the following:

• 403(b) plan with organizational matching
• Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois - BCBS)
• Dental (BCBS), and Vision Insurance (BCBS) with low employee premiums
• Long Term and Short Term Disability (BCBS), no cost to employee
• Flexible Spending Account (with annual rollover)
• Basic life insurance (50k) paid forby the organization and option for additional voluntary coverage for self, spouse, or dependents (BCBS)
• Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses
• Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)
• Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)

To further promote an active and healthy work/ life balance,KYCalso offers agenerous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.

• 4weeks of Paid Time Off (With increases based on seniority)
• 8 Paid Organization-Wide Holidays
• 3
  
  Personal Floating Holidays annually

KYC’s Community Collaboration Division is looking for an outgoing, energetic individual who enjoys working with youth and advocates for culturally relevant LGBTQ+, BIPOC-centered youth programs, community-based programming, and youth leadership development projects. Must thrive working in a highly participatory team environment.

Programs address populations ages 11-24 and their influencers by building resiliency protective factors across domains (individual, family, community, society) to reduce risks for problematic substance use, violence, high-risk sexual behaviors, school drop-out, irresponsible gambling, bias-based bullying, and violence, and other high-risk and harmful interpersonal behaviors and community health problems behaviors.

Program also address deliverables aimed at reaching the three goals: (1) reduce the past 30-day alcohol rates among 8th-12th graders in suburban, other urban, and rural areas of Illinois (excluding the City of Chicago) (2) reduce the non-medical use of prescription drugs among 8th-12th graders and adults, and (3) increase IYS participation (schools and number of students). The grant will support universal and selected services serving youth in grades 6th-12th, their parents and the community-at‑large.

The target populations will be served through an array of prevention services including youth prevention education, communication campaigns, information dissemination, awareness activities, and providing information about resources.

The position primarily entails the planning and implementing strategies to decrease and prevent youth violenceand increase community collaboration, conducting educational workshops and presentations, coordinating youth-led and community-led work groups, assisting with community outreach at community health fairs and festivals, implementing in-person and online evidence-based curriculum, and creating content and resources for newsletters and social media. The position is grant-funded and is subject to the availability of funds from the state of Illinois.

The position is not a work-from-home position. A DCFS background check must be cleared to confirm a job offer for this position. Reliable, insured transportation is necessary for community outreach, presentations, meetings, and community engagement. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where objectives may pivot due to unforeseen circumstances.

650

E. Algonquin Road, Suite 104, Schaumburg, IL

Cook County (Non-Chicago)

• Focus prevention services on positive youth development programming as assigned by the CC grant:
  Substance Use Prevention Services (SUPS), and other grants as assigned.
• Work collaboratively within a team to utilize SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework process to plan and implement evidence-based and best-practice strategies in schools and community settings according to the annual work plan
• Plan, facilitate, and/or support the Area Project Board, Youth Committees, and Community Committees and events.
• Work collaboratively with various community sectors, as determined by program requirements and community needs.
• Research and…