Outreach Youth Advocate

Job Description

Job Description

Description : Job Overview

Provides empowerment-based advocacy, safety planning, supportive counseling, crisis intervention and service management to teen dating violence survivors and youth who are secondary victims of domestic violence. Provides information, referrals, and counseling to participants. Provides crisis intervention and referral services to phone callers. Assists with youth programming in the community as needed.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Provides advocacy to individual youth participants by appointments or walk-in as needed to assess the lethality of the situation, develop a safety plan and ongoing safety planning
• Assesses the participant’s individual strengths and needs, identifies strengths and challenges present
• Offers options and assists the participants in selecting from the options available.
• Provides information on victims rights, crimes compensation assistance and relocation and criminal justice systems.
• Coordinates and refers to services with appropriate community resources and other agency programs such as Clinical Youth Services, Kids’ Team at Shelter, DV / CW program, Rural programming, law enforcement, education applications, mental health and substance use intervention services.
• Provides crisis counseling and referrals to youth (or parents) that seek services from outreach or other community programs.
• Completes intake documents and procedures.
• Attends agency meetings and all other meetings as assigned.
• Service planning, goal setting, management and documentation meets statewide program standards.
• Assists participants with arranging for transportation to appointments as needed.
• Maintains participant files and ensures data is entered into database while meeting agency documentation expectations and requirements
• Maintains, compiles and submits written records required for statistical monthly reporting and outcomes of services rendered required by grant contracts.
• Consults with supervisor on a regular basis, regarding all agency, participant, and service management issues.
• Facilitates victim support group(s) as assigned.
• Initiates and maintains contact with referral sources and contacts in the community geared towards victim services, including school personnel.

Occasional duties or projects which may be performed at irregular intervals

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The expectation is that each team member demonstrates knowledge of our company culture code and works in a way that aligns with our 15 fundamental behaviors. Our Guiding Principles are at the beginning of our culture code guidebook, we are…

Survivor-Focused and Empowerment Based. The diverse voices of survivors inform the decisions we make. Survivors are encouraged to heal and move forward at the pace they set.

Collaborative. Collaboration with our community partners helps create better outcomes for survivors while also ensuring knowledge of the services we provide.

Diverse & Inclusive. Our team reflects the diversities of our community and the survivors we serve. We establish spaces and services that are supportive of all people.

A Great Place to Work. People love to work here. We develop the potential of our staff and support their growth as leaders in this work.

Honest & Ethical. We are transparent. We deliver on our promises. Each dollar we receive is used for its intended purpose and its greatest good.

A Safe Space. Safety leads each interaction with survivors.

Advocates. We tirelessly advocate for survivor safety, abuser accountability, and improving the overall system in our community.