Youth Peer Advocate Job at Citizen Advocates, Inc
SUMMARY/OBJECTIVE:
Youth Peer Support (YPS) services are formal and informal services and supports provided to youth by young adults, who are experiencing social, medical, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community centered services. These services provide the training and support necessary to ensure engagement and active participation of the youth in the treatment planning process and with the ongoing implementation and reinforcement of skills. Services are delivered in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner. Youth Peer Support providers are between the ages of 21 and 28 years of age.
Activities included must be intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the individuals individualized service plan, which delineates specific goals that are flexibly tailored to the participant and attempt to utilize community and natural supports. The intent of these activities is to assist individuals in initiating recovery, maintaining recovery, and enhancing the quality of personal and family life in long-term recovery.
Essential Functions (Job Duties)
There are 5 categories of youth peer support services. Any of the below services can be provided either individually or combined as the care/service plan indicates their need. They include:
Developing skills for wellness, resiliency and recovery support
Developing skills to independently navigate the service system
Developing goal-setting skills
Building community living skills
Promoting wellness through modeling.
Providing mutual support, hope, reassurance and advocacy that include sharing one's own "personal recovery/resiliency story" as the Youth Peer Advocating (YPA) deems
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appropriate as beneficial to both the youth and themselves. YPA's may also share their recovery with parents to engage parents and help them "see" youth possibilities for future in a new light.
helping youth understand what to expect and how and why they should be active in developing their treatment plan and natural supports.
Serving as an advocate, mentor, or facilitator for resolution of issues
Assisting in navigating the service system including assisting with engagement and bridging during transitions in care
Helping youth develop self-advocacy skills (e.g., may attend a Committee on Preschool or Special Education meeting with the youth and parent, coaching the youth to articulate his educational goals).
Assisting youth with gaining and regaining the ability to make independent choices and assist youth in playing a proactive role in their own treatment (assisting/mentoring them in discussing questions or concerns about medications, diagnoses or treatment approaches with their treating clinician).
The YPA guides the youth to effectively communicate their individual perspective to providers and families. o Assisting youth in developing skills to advocate for needed services and benefits and seeking to effectively resolve unmet needs.
Assisting youth in understanding their treatment plan and help to ensure the plan is person/family centered
Helping youth develop a network for information and support from others who have been through similar experiences, including locating similar interest programs, peer-run programs, and support
Youth Peer Support (YPS) services are formal and informal services and supports provided to youth by young adults, who are experiencing social, medical, emotional, developmental, substance use, and/or behavioral challenges in their home, school, placement, and/or community centered services. These services provide the training and support necessary to ensure engagement and active participation of the youth in the treatment planning process and with the ongoing implementation and reinforcement of skills. Services are delivered in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner. Youth Peer Support providers are between the ages of 21 and 28 years of age.
Activities included must be intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the individuals individualized service plan, which delineates specific goals that are flexibly tailored to the participant and attempt to utilize community and natural supports. The intent of these activities is to assist individuals in initiating recovery, maintaining recovery, and enhancing the quality of personal and family life in long-term recovery.
Essential Functions (Job Duties)
There are 5 categories of youth peer support services. Any of the below services can be provided either individually or combined as the care/service plan indicates their need. They include:
- Skill Building:
Developing skills for wellness, resiliency and recovery support
Developing skills to independently navigate the service system
Developing goal-setting skills
Building community living skills
- Coaching:
Promoting wellness through modeling.
Providing mutual support, hope, reassurance and advocacy that include sharing one's own "personal recovery/resiliency story" as the Youth Peer Advocating (YPA) deems
2
appropriate as beneficial to both the youth and themselves. YPA's may also share their recovery with parents to engage parents and help them "see" youth possibilities for future in a new light.
- Engagement, Bridging, and Transition Support:
helping youth understand what to expect and how and why they should be active in developing their treatment plan and natural supports.
- Self-Advocacy, Self-Efficacy, & Empowerment:
Serving as an advocate, mentor, or facilitator for resolution of issues
Assisting in navigating the service system including assisting with engagement and bridging during transitions in care
Helping youth develop self-advocacy skills (e.g., may attend a Committee on Preschool or Special Education meeting with the youth and parent, coaching the youth to articulate his educational goals).
Assisting youth with gaining and regaining the ability to make independent choices and assist youth in playing a proactive role in their own treatment (assisting/mentoring them in discussing questions or concerns about medications, diagnoses or treatment approaches with their treating clinician).
The YPA guides the youth to effectively communicate their individual perspective to providers and families. o Assisting youth in developing skills to advocate for needed services and benefits and seeking to effectively resolve unmet needs.
Assisting youth in understanding their treatment plan and help to ensure the plan is person/family centered
- Community Connections and Natural Supports:
Helping youth develop a network for information and support from others who have been through similar experiences, including locating similar interest programs, peer-run programs, and support
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