Mentor, Community Health, Youth Development

RFK Community Alliance has an opportunity for Survivor Mentor to join our Legacy Mentoring Program team in Pittsfield, MA.

We are seeking a Survivor Mentor to expand our Legacy Mentoring Program and provide one-to-one support to adolescent youth who have been commercially sexually exploited. Survivor Mentors work directly with the youth and are responsible for in-person contact with the youth in the home and in the community on a regular basis. Mentors work with multi-disciplinary teams to increase safety and decrease involvement in exploitation.

This opportunity requires a person with lived experience as a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation as an adolescent or young adult.

The commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is a form of child abuse that constitutes any sexual activity with a minor for which something of value is given or exchanged. RFK provides voluntary mentoring services to participants that are survivors of CSEC or there are suspicions of CSEC. RFK provides specific training related to boundaries and secondary trauma to support service delivery.

• Provide one-on-one support and mentoring to adolescent youth who have been commercially sexually exploited. This support will include weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly meetings (depending on where a youth is in recovery) with each meeting lasting 1-3 hours. Contacts may occur wherever the youth lives (including in group care, a juvenile justice facility, foster home, family setting, and/or in the community).
• Provide written documentation of each contact with your assigned youth using designated reporting forms and data collection forms.
• Work collaboratively with other mentoring team members in developing an appropriate support service, education, and treatment plan for each assigned youth.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, including law enforcement, to enhance each youth’s safety and ability to aid in a prosecution, when appropriate.
• Attend supervision meetings with Legacy Program Coordinator as well as staff meetings
• When appropriate, co-facilitate exploitation prevention groups with adolescent youth in schools, group homes, etc.
• Attend trainings as required for position and/or to promote professional development. Track hours to provide to supervisor as requested.
• Additional assigned duties as needed or requested by supervisor that fall within the scope of the position

You are someone with a personal interest in, and commitment to, working with adolescent youth. You have a positive attitude and belief in the hope of recovery from commercial sexual exploitation for youth. You can work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team, and demonstrate and promote cultural competence, awareness, and respect for diversity.

• Personal history as a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation as an adolescent or young adult. This may include exploitation through online outlets such as (social media platforms, Only Fans, webcamming, etc.) forced migration, stripping, pornography, prostitution, or commercial exchange of explicit pictures).
• A minimum of five years in recovery from sexual exploitation
• Preferred experience and knowledge working with LGBTQI+ youth
• A minimum of a high school diploma or GED.
• A current driver’s license and access to a car.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred. LGBTQI+ and Male Survivors encouraged to apply.
• Demonstrates and promotes cultural competence, awareness, and respect for diversity/inclusivity.
• Promote agency core values.

Full-Time, Mon-Fri, Day Shift, flexible hours and occasional evenings

RFK Community Alliance provides high-quality care and support to people and families facing complicated challenges. As a multi-service agency, we offer a wide range of programs serving a variety of needs across all ages, from infants to seniors. We are team players when it comes to caring. We work with the people we serve, their families, schools, and other community partners to develop a network of support.

We provide opportunities to build skills and confidence. We nurture strength, determination, and resilience.

At RFK Community Alliance, we’re dedicated to a culture where everyone can show up to work as their full authentic selves. Diversity and inclusion doesn’t happen by accident, it’s by design. Together we are the designers. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace makes our organization stronger. We care about including diverse perspectives and experiences throughout every level. Which is why we’re committed to honoring, celebrating, and fostering diversity and inclusion on our team, in our clientele and within our community.

Our team must reflect our community and vice versa. We value, respect, and support all types of diversity across all identities including, but not limited to, ethnicity, race, gender, LGBTQIA, age religion and abilities. We take…