Youth Engagement Advocate

Youth Engagement Advocate

The Center for Youth Services, Inc. is looking for a Youth Engagement Advocate to provide intensive case management and advocacy for commercially sexually exploited (CSE) youth. The Advocate will assist youth in crisis intervention, problem solving, action planning and skill building to address immediate life and safety issues, reduce the risk of continued sexual exploitation and abuse. Outreach to community partners across Monroe County will help identify CSE youth and coordinate immediate access to needed services and supports.

Schedule: Full Time

Pay Rate: $19 - $21 per hour

• Crisis Intervention
• Case management & youth advocacy
• Individual counseling
• Community outreach to youth-serving agencies
• Maintain client confidentiality, consistent with Center policies
• Referral readiness and referral services
• After-hours response, assessment and intake of youth in need
• Accurate and timely case and program record keeping
• Representation of the agency on community committees, coalitions, etc., as assigned
• Effectively manage time to meet responsibilities
• Engage youth to offer services and referrals
• Transportation of clients, when required and consistent with agency policies

• Adhere to ethical conduct
• Demonstrate professionalism (timely, dependable, responsible, flexible)
• Be non-judgmental and respectful
• Model principles of inclusion and tolerance
• Be youth-centered and positive
• Be family friendly
• Establish effective working relationships with supervisor and co-workers
• Develop positive relationships with all key stakeholders
• Have strong literacy skills (reading, writing, comprehension)
• Have excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Conduct research and apply best-practices and evaluation methods
• Effectively promote knowledge and skill development and positive behaviors
• Provide leadership and/or work independently as requested

• Adolescent development including positive youth development, asset development, risk reduction and protective factors
• Youth-serving systems
• Community resources
• Client advocacy

Candidates must be able to be autonomously mobile to provide required services.

• Authorization for agency to obtain driving record information
• Proof of a satisfactory physical exam within last 12 months including PPD and annually thereafter
• Valid driver's license
• Regular access to a motor vehicle
• Automobile insurance at the level of $100,000 per person/$300,000 per accident Bodily Injury and $50,000 Property Damage

The Center for Youth provides equal opportunities for employment.