Youth Coach

Job Title: Youth Coach

Job Summary:  

CASES is looking for a Youth Coach, are you: 

• Looking to work with young people by engaging them in meaningful conversation, setting goals, and providing support and encouragement?

• An outside-the-box thinker who can employ creative approaches?

• Someone who believes that change is possible?

• Passionate about working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed, youth development lens?

Becoming a Youth Coach at CASES could be what you are looking for. As a Youth Coach, you will:

• Be part of a successful, innovative, and collaborative movement that is changing the landscape of child welfare and the juvenile legal system.

• Join a community of over 500 passionate professionals across organizations.

• Make an immediate impact in the lives of young people by helping them carve out a pathway to success, as they define it.

Travel is expected throughout the assigned borough or to where participant is – feels safest - and a minimum of 80% of the client contact will be in the community.

Salary: The salary for this role is $61,800 per year. 

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Monday-Friday 10am-6pm. Flexibility required to be responsive to youth needs (occasionally accompanying to school in AM, picking up phone calls in PM.

Location Address: 412 East 147th Street, Bronx, NY, 10455

Workplace Flexibility: Flexible - Positions for which staff have flexibility to complete their workday from home or another suitable space, typically after reporting to the office and/or engaging in field or community-based work. Travel is expected throughout the assigned borough or to where participant is – feels safest - and a minimum of 80% of the client contact will be in the community

 What you will be doing:  

• Develop relationships with young people and their families to support participant compliance of in-person contacts twice weekly and weekly phone calls 
• Support young people in the adherence to obligations set forth by their mandate from court 
• Plan activities to attend with participants after school and school breaks 
• Create relationships with Education staff from school's young people attend to support their educational success including monitoring school attendance 
• Partner with young people to establish goals short and long term 
• Be accessible to young people outside of program hours in case of crisis 
• Facilitate groups as needed 
• Daily documentation of contacts/efforts 
• Connect youth to positive activities in their communities and verify their attendance and participation
• Work closely with families to engage them in the development of goal plans and aftercare plans
• Administer assessment tools as needed including mental health, risk, and educational assessments to assist in the development of youth goal plans
• Engage in a weekly team and individual supervision meetings led by supervisor 
• Adhere to ACS-mandated onboarding core trainings and annual training requirements

 What we are looking for: 

• At least 2 years' experience working with young people Desire to learn from youth
• Commitment to youth engagement through collaboration with youth and their families
• Demonstrated ability to engage and motivate youth
• Positive attitude and excellent problem-solving skills
• Trained in or committed to training to become competent in trauma informed approaches as a means of engaging young people
• Experience developing relationships with schools, community-based organizations and/or other youth service providers
• Schedule flexibility: General hours are 10am-6pm, but some activities require us to start earlier or end later

Preferred Skills:  

• Bilingual Spanish & English

Employee Benefits: 

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including: 

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days
• 12 Paid Holidays per year.
• Retirement 403(b) Competitive matching up to 6%.
• Employee Referral Program

Our Values

At CASES, we like to move with PURPOSE, which reflects our values:

PEOPLE| Hold people’s stories with dignity

UNITY| Commit to a shared mission

RESPECT| Celebrate the strength of diversity

PROGRESS| Always work to improve

OPTIMIZE| Make the best use of resources

SOLUTIONS| Work together to solve problems

EMPATHY| Seek to understand others

Although we would love to learn about the skills of every candidate, only selected candidates that are selected will receive a response. We encourage you to apply for any position(s) you feel you are qualified for.   

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.