Family Peer Advocate; Tioga County, NY

Aspire Hope NY, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Family Peer Advocate in Tioga County, NY.

Job Title: Family Peer Advocate

Family Peer Advocates have lived-experience as the parent or legal guardian of a child/youth with an emotional, behavioral, social, and/or developmental disabilities.

• Utilize your valuable lived experiences to help other families while working part-time in a strength based atmosphere.
• Opportunity to earn your Professional Family Peer Credential as well as additional opportunities for trainings in personal skill development.

• Under general supervision, the Family Peer Advocate functions as both advocate and deliverer of services.
• They foster effective parent-professional partnership and promote the practice of family-driven and youth-guided approaches.

• Provide emotional support to families through phone and face to face meetings.
• Meet program specific billable service requirements (as appropriate).
• Meet documentation requirements in a timely manner per program guidelines.
• Provide family support as needed.
• Coach families on how to advocate for themselves.
• Facilitate/co-facilitate meetings with families in their home or at an agency location.
• Help families find ways to meet their basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, safety, and health.
• Assist families in identifying parenting skills which could be strengthened, and model these skills to the families

Reports directly to Family Services Coordinator

• You MUST have personal lived-experience as the parent or primary legal caregiver of a child/youth with an emotional, behavioral, social, and/or developmental disabilities.
• Must have reliable transportation, flexible schedule, home internet and home office space.
• Must demonstrate sensitivity and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and practices of families and be committed to supporting and empowering advocacy.
• Experience navigating multiple child-serving systems.
• Must be eligible for Provisional Family Peer Advocate credential, and complete Professional Credential after 1000 hours of employment. Must maintain and re-certify for credential.
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Ability to work some evenings and weekends.
• Must pass all criminal history background checks
• Bi-lingual in Spanish a plus.

• Job Type: This is a Part time (20 hours) position. Hours are flexible and it varies but will typically be Monday-Friday between 8am - 9pm. Occasional weekends may be needed.
• Salary:
  Starting pay rate $18.32 /hour & $18.82 after Professional Credentialing
• Mileage reimbursement.
• Paid time off