Children and Youth Specialist

The Children and Youth Specialist is responsible for the following tasks:

Learn and integrate a trauma-informed, client-centered approach, using an anti-oppressive lens, into your work with clients. Coach and guide staff in their client practice that reflects these approaches.

Plan and coordinate age-appropriate internal and external activities for residents and their children

Facilitate family, children and youth groups and workshops

Conduct orientation with newly admitted parents and children

Complete all developmental, educational, and identified assessments such as Survey of Well-Being of Young Children and AFC Educational Assessment

Provide psychoeducation to parents through individual and group sessions.

Create a trauma-informed safe space for children to help with dysregulation, promote emotional safety, play, curiosity, and cultural inclusivity

Assist with covering shifts and all duties related to that shift

Serve as a Department of Education liaison and manage all DOE related processes and tasks

Manage donations (sorting, distribution) and completing requests from donors

Coordinate family services such as daycare, specialized therapy referrals, assessments

Supervising children and youth while parents are receiving services or making appointments

Care for infant, toddlers, and school age children, which includes feeding, changing diapers, and developmentally appropriate engagement