Peer Parent Advocate

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A Brief Overview
Within a 24/7 Crisis Response Center, a center of Hope and Healing. The Peer Parent Advocate is responsible for serving as a liaison for parents/caregivers and providing individual support, and advocacy while in the CRC. These core supports are aimed to meet the patient and parent/caregiver with a trauma informed, empathetic approach that supports collaborative and non-clinical interventions that are delivered for family empowerment across the CRC walk-in center and the Crisis stabilization Unit. This individual will be a parent or caregiver who is/has raised a child with behavior health challenges and is personally familiar with the associated challenges and available community resources.
What you will do

• Greet families upon arrival, warm and supportive transition into the CRC
• Provide non-judgmental support to parents as they navigate the toll of removal and the stress of the crisis treatment continuum.
• Foster effective parent-professional partnership and promote the practice of family-driven and youth-guided approaches
• Educate parents/caregivers about maintaining self-awareness, self-help techniques, symptom management, clarify next steps within the triage, treatment, or discharge process; support the use of effective coping strategies based on their own lived experience
• Serve as a liaison for parents/caregivers through support that is strengths-based, and individualized
• Deliver interventions and activities that meet needs, build on strengths, and achieve outcomes
• Maintain consistent, ongoing communication with the patient/family/caregiver’s multidisciplinary team
• Work with parents/caregivers on skill building, coaching, engagement, self-advocacy, self-efficacy, empowerment, and community connections and natural supports
• Assist families in identifying parenting skills which could be strengthened, and model these skills to the families.
• Actively participates in team meetings, care conferences, rounds and other forums designed to facilitate the delivery of effective and efficient patient and family care.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma / GED Required
• Associate's Degree Human Services or related field Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least one (1) year Previous experience in a crisis response center, mobile crisis, or mental health setting helping children and families
  Required

Skills and Abilities

• Communication, De-escalation, Motivational Interviewing (Required proficiency)

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Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.
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