Safe Place Coordinator

Would you like a career that changes lives while working with a team built on shared values? Look no further! At Youth In Need, we value community and relationships. We encourage courageous spaces, leaning into discomfort, and stretching your learning muscles. As a Safe Place Coordinator , you will be instrumental in supporting the Safe Place Program at Youth In Need. Our Safe Place Program recruits and educates local businesses to serve as sites that can receive youth in unsafe situations and contact the designated helpline. (For more information about the program, check out our website.) You will schedule and implement prevention and trainings to school-aged youth and community groups. You will work with local businesses to enroll them as Safe Place sites throughout the region. Our Company: Youth In Need has been around since 1974 helping to create safe places for the area's most vulnerable children. We have more than 400 full- and part-time staff who serve more than 8,000 children, teens and families at nearly 100 locations in six counties in Eastern Missouri. Youth In Need has been named a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplace for seven straight years. We are nationally recognized by the US Department of Health and Human Services as an exemplary program. This Position: We are interested in a Safe Place Coordinator with a Bachelor's Degree in Human Services, Psychology, Sociology or related. We're looking for someone with experience working with at-risk youth and who is familiar with the streets and neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis region. Ability to be CPR certified and obtain Class E Driver's License are required. This is an hourly position, starting at $21.00/hour. Youth In Need is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to ability, age, ancestry, color, cultural background, faith/religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, income, marital status, national origin, political belief/affiliation, pregnancy, race, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Youth In Need, Inc.