Family Advocate Peer Support

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Nexus-Woodbourne Family Healing is looking for experienced parents / caregivers of youth with emotional or behavioral challenges to serve as an active, hands-on, trauma-informed, and family-guided Family Advocate Peer Support to our client's parents / caregivers.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Schedule / Travel / Pay :

• Full-time on-site opportunity
• Regular use of personal vehicle for local travel will be required as needed for the transportation of clients and families.
• Pay range : $23 – $25 per hour

Position Summary :

The Family Advocate Peer Support provides active, hands-on, trauma-informed, and family-guided peer support to parents of youth receiving services while collaborating with families, team members and service providers. The Family Advocate Peer Support ’ s role is to increase family involvement within the program, connecting families to formal and informal resources, and advocating for families to decrease unintentional, programmatic, and institutional bias toward caregivers.

Primary responsibilities :

Requirements :

Required Education and Licensure :

Preferred Education and Experience :

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

Our ICARE Values :

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!

Keyword : Parent Partner