Youth Program Specialist

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Company parties
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Job Purpose/Summary

The Youth Program Specialist provides culturally responsive strengths-based support services to American Indian Alaska Native and Indigenous youth. This position promotes positive youth development cultural identity resilience educational success behavioral health and overall well-being through mentoring advocacy and community engagement.

The Youth Program Specialist is responsible for recruiting and engaging American Indian Alaska Native and Indigenous youth to participate in youth services at Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center. They will receive instruction on the Motivational Interviewing and Culture for Native American Youth (MICUNAY) curriculum and facilitate workshops (both virtual and in person) with this curriculum for youth ages 12-17 and 18-26. The Youth Program Specialist will also provide mentoring and peer support.

The Youth Program Specialist works collaboratively with youth families Tribal communities elders schools behavioral health providers and community partners to support youth in achieving their goals while honoring Indigenous values traditions and cultural practices. The position is expected to uphold principles of cultural humility trauma-informed care and community-centered service delivery.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Youth Engagement and Support

• Establish trusting supportive relationships with American Indian Alaska Native and Indigenous youth.
• Develop workshop content agendas and learning materials to align with the desired outcomes and target audience. Place orders for materials (and food if applicable) and secure a site if necessary.
• Lead workshops by engaging participants through various interactive methods encouraging discussions and managing group dynamics. Ensure that workshops follow required procedures (e.g. sign-in sheets surveys).
• Clearly communicate workshop objectives expectations and guidelines to participants ensuring a shared understanding.
• Provide individual/group mentoring and peer support.
• Assist youth in identifying personal educational career cultural and wellness goals.
• Promote leadership development self-advocacy and life skills.
• Encourage healthy social emotional spiritual and cultural development.
• Support youth participation in cultural traditional and community activities.

Cultural and Community-Based Services

• Incorporate Indigenous values traditions and cultural practices into service delivery.
• Strengthen cultural identity community connections and sense of belonging.
• Collaborate with elders cultural practitioners Tribal representatives and community leaders to support programming.
• Assist with planning and facilitating cultural events workshops and youth activities.
• Promote respect for cultural diversity and community traditions.

Documentation and Program Compliance

• Assist with data collection and reporting requirements for grants and contracts.
• Track program outcomes and performance measures.
• Collect participant feedback evaluate workshop effectiveness and make improvements.
• Ensure confidentiality and compliance with policies and applicable regulations.
• Keep supervisor(s) informed of any concerns or challenges.

Collaboration and Community Outreach

• Work with Youth Services Program Coordinators to maximize outreach via social media accounts by creating content posting and interacting with community regularly.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with schools Tribal organizations and community partners.
• Work with subcontractors to support in facilitating workshops; assist in ordering materials; ensure workshop procedures are followed; attend workshops to assist as needed.
• Conduct outreach and recruitment activities within Indigenous communities.
• Represent Sacred Path at community meetings events and cultural gatherings as needed.

Other

Perform additional duties as needed in support of Sacred Paths mission.

Experience & Qualifications

• Must be between 18 and 26 years of age (funding source requirement)
• Strong interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills capable of creating a positive and inclusive learning environment.
• Flexibility to adapt to different learning styles participant backgrounds and unexpected challenges.
• Effective organizational and time-management skills.
• Knowledge of positive youth development and trauma-informed care principles.
• Understanding of the historical and contemporary experiences impacting American Indian Alaska Native and Indigenous communities.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $22.00 - $25.00 per hour

Sacred Path Indigenous Wellness Center was developed to contribute to the wellness of American Indian/Alaska Native communities by engaging key strategies to provide much needed culturally-relevant integrated trauma responsive health and behavioral health services conduct community-based participatory research and provide technical assistance training and consultative services to other tribal and urban Native organizations.

Required Experience:

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