Mentor Trainer

Mentor Trainer About POWER

POWER is a mission-driven nonprofit dedicated to helping women reclaim their lives from addiction. We provide trauma-informed treatment and recovery support services for women with substance use and co-occurring disorders, fostering a safe, supportive environment where women can heal, grow, and build lasting recovery.

The Mentor Trainer plays a vital leadership role within POWER's community-based recovery support services. This position combines direct peer mentoring with staff development responsibilities, helping to ensure that individuals impacted by substance use disorders receive high-quality, person-centered recovery support. Drawing upon lived experience and recovery expertise, the Mentor Trainer models best practices, develops mentor staff, and empowers participants to build recovery capital, strengthen natural supports, and achieve long-term wellness and recovery success.

• Train newly hired Mentors on mentoring principles, recovery support services, professional boundaries, ethics, and engagement strategies.

• Facilitate Mentor onboarding, shadowing experiences, and competency development activities.

• Coach and support Mentors requiring additional skill development or performance improvement.

• Model effective mentoring practices and community engagement techniques.

• Assist with planning and facilitating Mentor meetings, trainings, case consultations, and professional development activities.

• Provide feedback and recommendations to the POWER Connection Supervisor regarding staff performance, training needs, and mentoring best practices.

• Support implementation of trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and culturally responsive practices across the Mentor team.

• Maintain a caseload of approximately 20-30 participants engaged in community-based recovery support services.

• Conduct outreach and assertive engagement activities in homes, community settings, healthcare facilities, correctional environments, and other approved locations.

• Build trusting, recovery-focused relationships with participants through consistent support and encouragement.

• Share lived recovery experience appropriately to inspire hope and demonstrate recovery is possible.

• Assist participants in identifying strengths, overcoming barriers, and establishing meaningful recovery goals.

• Support participants in developing recovery capital and natural support networks.

• Encourage personal responsibility and self-advocacy while promoting participant choice and self-determination.

• Complete strengths-based assessments and collaborate with participants to develop individualized Recovery Plans.

• Monitor progress toward goals and regularly review recovery plans in accordance with agency requirements.

• Connect participants with community resources including housing, employment, education, transportation, healthcare, childcare, legal assistance, and social supports.

• Assist participants in navigating behavioral health, medical, social service, family-serving, and criminal justice systems.

• Educate participants on recovery support options and community resources.

• Support participants in accessing and maintaining engagement in substance use treatment, mental health services, and other appropriate supports.

• Promote utilization of natural community resources and peer support networks.

• Utilize Motivational Interviewing and recovery coaching techniques to increase motivation and engagement.

• Support participants in developing healthy coping skills, relapse prevention strategies, and recovery management practices.

• Encourage whole-person wellness, including physical health,…