Recovery Youth Leader

Overview

The Recovery Youth Leader helps address the needs and goals of the Transitional Age Youth (TAY) population and will participate in TAY seminars, training, or events. The Recovery Youth Leader will facilitate events and programs of the SERLC that will foster a warm and welcoming environment. TAY will communicate, represent, and promote the Youth Peer movement within the SERLC and facilitate Peer-run groups

• Shares personal experiences; provide support, education and advocacy to SERLC participants, especially as it pertains to Transitional Age Youth.
• Facilitates groups and activities in the community.
• Helps prepare participants to engage in a recovery process and to communicate their strengths, hopes, dreams and goals effectively.
• Provides assistance in the development of reports and collection of data, especially as it pertains to Transitional Age Youth.
• Attends and participates in social events, trainings, and workshops within the mental health and addiction system, especially as it pertains to Transitional Age Youth.
• Helps to facilitate events and training sessions within the SERLC, especially asit pertainsto Transitional Age Youth.
• Actively publicizes logistics of group meeting times and locations.
• Engages participants in non-directive and supportive relationships that promote empowerment and self-learning.
• Maintains knowledge of current available resources and information through department communications, published literature, and other available sources. Assists in maintaining resource library stocked and up to date.
• Creates a welcoming and helpful RLC environment in which participants, family, friends, and others important in the lives of participants are welcomed, respected, and valued.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.
• Knowledge and
  
  Skills:
  
  
• Willing to use and share their personal, practical experience of recovery process, wellness management, and the personal effort and commitment required for persons served to havea full and satisfying life in the community.
• Ability to empathize with another person’s experience and practice compassionate listening.
• Ability to comfortably share one’s experiences, challenges, and coping mechanisms.
• Ability to enforce an agenda and time guidelines.
• Ability to direct and re‑redirect the flow of a group
• Respond in a timely manner via both phone and email to program director and RCC Coordinator
• Practice protocol for handling emergency or crisis situations.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Actively publicize logistics of groups meeting times and locations
• Strong commitment to the right and ability of people served by Vinfen to live, work, have meaningful relationships and receive the resources and supports needed in their community of choice.
• Knowledge of recovery-oriented, person-centered and strengths-based values and principles and modalities
• Knowledge of psychiatric rehabilitation values, principles and techniques
• Knowledge of the effects of prejudice (including internalized negative attitudes about oneself), discrimination, and oppression of people with psychiatric disorders, and the effects of poverty
• Knowledge of motivational interviewing, stage of change and harm reduction techniques
• Knowledge of trauma-informed and culturally competent services
• Sensitivity to cultural, religious, ethnic, disability, and gender issues
• Knowledge of human, legal, civil rights, community, and other resources
• Skills and competence to establish supportive trusting relationships with program clients.
• Knowledge of empowerment and self-advocacy techniques
• Knowledge of available community and mental health services, including equipment, therapies and service providers
• Knowledge of psychiatric advanced directives, self-management and crisis intervention techniques
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices and commitment to maintaining program’s fidelity to EBP standards and practices
• Knowledge and use of different communication and learning styles and supervisory techniques.
• Knowledge of organizational, strategic, participatory, collaborative skills
• Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices
• Knowledge of data-driven decision-making processes and ability to encourage…