Program Educator - Diversion

POSITION TITLE:                          Program Educator – Youth Services

HOURS:                                                40 hours per week, some evenings and weekends (as needed)

SUPERVISED BY:                           Program Manager – MOHAVE COUNTY (LAKE HAVASU CITY)

FUNDED BY:                                     Mohave County Opioid Settlement Funds

SALARY:                                            $19/hr                                                                  

JOB SUMMARY:                       The Program Coordinator is responsible for the planning, organizing, and implementation of the goals and objectives of the program.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Facilitate Evidence Based Curriculum in school and community settings
• Connect families and youth to community resources and supports when appropriate
• Facilitate curriculum to youth referred to diversion program
• Facilitate relationships between all service providers, probation officers, and project collaborators.
• Offer face-to-face, goal driven support for youth and families to enhance family functioning, including teaching and modeling coping skills and conflict resolution strategies when appropriate
• Maintain program operations and facilitate program development on-going to meet the needs of the juvenile participants (i.e.: scheduling, resource referral, educational advancement, employment support, documentation maintenance and review.)
• Practice Evidence Informed Approaches – Trauma Informed Care, Positive Youth Development, Youth-Centered Case Management
• Ensures follow through with all assigned program components (i.e.:  fidelity, standards, scheduled appointments, community relations, and fiscal).
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to assure goals of youth and families are met
• Ensure participants’ health, safety, and welfare.
• Advocates for participants’ most appropriate education, employment, and basic needs.
• Encourages participants to be involved in the community and fosters participant self-advocacy in activities using Positive Youth Development model.
• Ensures compliance with all agency and probation policy, procedures, and standards.
• Conduct and coordinate regular meetings with project staff, contractors, and consultants to assure consistent understanding of the mission of the project, job responsibilities, program, and funding compliance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree OR equivalent experience working with youth, justice involved youth, or foster youth
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Knowledge of RURAL Mohave County, including community norms and resources

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Self-Disciplined, creative, flexible, team player
• Respectful of youth and families’ culture, diversity, and individual needs

REQUIREMENTS:

• Fingerprint and background clearance.
• CPR and First Aid
• Cellular Phone
• Participation in orientation and training as required by AZYP
• AZ Drivers License and reliable transportation, with means to travel about in Mohave County (mileage stipends provided)
• Automobile Insurance in the amount of $100,000/$300,000/$100,000