Anti-Trafficking Mentor

Job Description

Job Description

ANTI-TRAFFICKING MENTOR

Department :              Anti-Trafficking

JOB SUMMARY

As part of an Anti-Trafficking Mobile Team, consisting of an AT Team Supervisor, AT Advocate, and AT Clinician, the AT Mentor will provide care for commercially sexually exploited (CSE) and trafficked children and young adults (up to age 24). The Mentor serves as the first responder to provide immediate crisis intervention and mobile direct services support, once a survivor/victim is recovered. Because of the shared lived experiences of the Mentor and the victim/survivor, this first responder intervention is designed to increase the opportunity of establishing a bond with a safe, caring person who understands the experience firsthand. The AT Mentor position is designed to provide mobile direct services support to the victim/survivor as needed.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS

•    Partner with the AT Team Supervisor to provide mobile direct services based on the needs identified in the victim’s individual needs assessment. 

•    Work collaboratively with the AT Team and AT Leadership to ensure victims’ needs are met. 

•    Provide ongoing mobile care management services to victims and their families (if appropriate) wherever the victim is housed. 

•    Verify victim’s eligibility for services/benefits based on individual situations.    

•    Support victims by attending court 

•    Assist with referrals and accompany appointments as needed. 

•    Provides the day-to-day care management services and works with the clinical staff to support ongoing needs. 

•    Provides and ensures support for immediate health and safety such as crisis intervention; accompaniment to hospitals for medical examinations; emergency food, clothing, transportation to appointments as needed. 

Assist with special services to assist victims with managing practical problems created by their victimization such as acting on behalf of the victim with other service providers, creditors, or employers; assisting the victim to recover property that is retained as evidence, assisting in filing for compensation benefits, and helping to apply for public assistance. 

•    Complete documentation as required by funding entities, courts, referral sources.

ESSENTIAL SUPERVISORY DUTIES

•    N/A

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS