Passage Of Hope -Life Skills Coach

About the Role

The Life Skills Trainer plays a pivotal role in implementing, instructing, and coordinating comprehensive Life Skills Training for all youth in the POH program. This position requires intensive individual and group training for unaccompanied children aged 5 to 17 in both the Basic Shelter Program and the Transitional Foster Care Program. The Life Skills Trainer is equipped to effectively teach a range of essential life skills, including daily living skills, self-care, career planning, community engagement, communication skills, housing and money management, job readiness, and post-18 planning, ensuring that each youth is prepared for a successful future.

What You’ll Do

• Facilitate individual and group Life Skills training for all youth in the POH program. Training must be tailored to meet each youth’s needs and current abilities.
• Complete a Life Skill Assessment for each youth within 30 days of admission.
• Create and update a comprehensive Independent Living/Life Skills program curriculum as needed.
• Ensure that all materials are available for the execution of each Independent Living training session.
• Incorporate community involvement activities into the program curriculum.
• Provide tutoring and mentorship to youth as needed.
• Network with community-based organizations to offer supplementary services and experiences for the youth in the POH program.
• Track the results of IL skills and compare them with the current scores from each child’s Life Skills Assessment.
• Attend Treatment Team Meetings as requested.
• Facilitate and attend all Family Team Conference (FTC) meetings as requested.
• Work effectively with children who have developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, and emotional disturbances.
• Document all services provided on a monthly basis.
• Conduct weekly IL groups with all children in the Treatment Foster Care (TFC) program.
• Be prepared to travel extensively throughout the Tri-State area to ensure services are provided to all youth in the program (Basic Shelter and TFC).
• Be flexible with work hours, including weekends, as needed.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Work, Human services or related field preferred
• Two years’ experience in a related program for adolescent population
• Must complete Therapeutic Crises Intervention Training (TCI)
• Ability to transport youth and travel
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) a must.
• Possession of a valid vehicle operator’s license and clean driving record.
• Understanding of practice models such as FTC, PBIS, Trauma-Informed care and evidence-based models a plus
• Driven by strong ethics and able to support the integrity and standards of Agency and Program
• Passion for and exposure to our most vulnerable populations

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Supervisory Responsibility

N/A

Work Environment:

Life Skills Coaches will be based in our community with the expectation of meeting clients in our community-based programs - Day Programs, Residential Settings, Community facilities, etc.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
The position operates for 5 days from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM with flexibility for after-hours, weekends, and holiday support as needed.

Additional Requirements:

• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Ability to travel to other Rising Ground sites (if required)
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the Tri-State area to ensure services are provided to all youth in the program.
• Be flexible with work hours, including weekends, as needed.
• Capability to establish and maintain working relationships with staff, community groups, and community-based organizations.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office software.
• Ability and willingness to work overtime and on weekends, as required.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.