Crisis Response & Education Facilitator

Position Type:
Full-time, Temporary

Contract Term:
Temporary position ending December 2027, with an anticipated start date as soon as possible.

Vacancy Status:
This is a temporary leave replacement position.

Union Status:
Unionized – SEIU Local 2

Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (Boost CYAC) is situated on the traditional territories of the Wendat, Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation, who have been the traditional caretakers of this land for thousands of years. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land.

Subsequent Indigenous Nations and Peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect. We are grateful to share this land as treaty people who learn, work, and live in the community with each other.

Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (Boost CYAC) is a registered charity that provides a range of services to children, youth and families, who have experienced abuse or violence, within the City of Toronto. We provide individual, group, family and community services that include trauma counselling, advocacy and support services during child abuse investigations, court support and accompaniment services and abuse and violence prevention materials and training.

Boost CYAC is accredited by the Canadian Centre for Accreditation, an independent non-profit organization that offers accreditation specifically tailored to community-based health and social services across Canada.

The Prevention Education Program is seeking a Crisis Response & Education Facilitator, to respond to crises at child-serving organizations (e.g., schools, daycares, community centres). Crisis response incidents may include child abuse allegations, peer assault and community violence. Crisis response services aim to provide trauma informed guidance and stabilization to child-serving organizations, to re-establish safety and prevent further trauma.

The Facilitator will also deliver and contribute to the development of Boost CYAC’s PEP Talk classroom programs, which is evidence-based, violence prevention programming that aims to develop protective life skills in children with the goal of building healthy relationships with themselves, peers and the adults in their lives.

We recognize that strong candidates may come from a variety of backgrounds, fields, and disciplines. If you are interested in this role but do not meet all the listed qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Please highlight your transferable skills, relevant experience, and commitment to learning. We will consider an equivalent combination of knowledge, education, skills, and experience.

• A post-secondary degree in Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Education or related field. Registration in good standing in an appropriate regulatory body.
• Sound knowledge of the field of childhood trauma, particularly complex, developmental and intergenerational trauma, and child and adolescent development.
• Proven experience providing crisis assessment and intervention services to children, youth, families and/or professionals.
• Demonstrated training, teaching, or facilitation experience in face-to face or virtual environments.
• Ability to meet the needs of a diverse client/community base, through knowledge of and application of diversity, equity and inclusion, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, anti-racist and cultural competency practices.
• Direct experience collaborating with teams of multidisciplinary professionals and community partners.
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