Success Coach For Transitional Youth Living For Adults (Tlya) Program

Success Coach for Transitional YouthLiving for Adults (TLYA) Program

Families and Youth Innovation Plus is hiring a full-time Success Coach for Transitional Living Youth and Audlt (TLYA) Program

The Success Coach provides specialized case management services to individual client needs. They also create programs to benefit clients and educate clients on available community resources.

Competencies:

• Information Management
• Acting with Empathy and Compassion
• Client Focus
• Emotional Intelligence
• Planning and Organizing
• Professionalism

Key Responsibilities

• Focus on a strengths based approach, while also identifying needs to address each of the following: daily living, bio/psycho/social needs, and community involvement, current barriers to independence; services to be provided and time frame; and coordination of services with other agencies and/or individuals;
• Conducting intakes (lease, move-in paperwork, household rules and expectations, etc.);
• Conducting life skills education to include but not limited to: personal hygiene; sexuality; budgeting and financial management; apartment hunting; community resources; employment and career training; proper nutrition; grocery shopping; menu planning; healthy relationships; boundary development; substance use and abuse prevention; cultural awareness; effective communication; conflict resolution; obtaining transportation through public transportation; and household maintenance;
• Assisting adolescents to enroll in secondary and/or post-secondary education or vocational services;
• Assisting adolescents in accessing community resources (daycare, public assistance or welfare, child support enforcement, Medicaid, counseling, transportation, family planning services, etc.);
• Attend weekly staffing with Supervisor
• Assisting adolescents in expanding their natural support systems and obtaining a mentor;
• Providing transportation to adolescents to physician appointments, job interviews, enroll in school, obtain daycare services, grocery shop, and other matters that serve to promote independence;
• Conduct weekly/bi-weekly/monthly (depending on level of young person), random inspections of apartments to ensure that adolescents maintain cleanliness, have adequate food supply, utilities and safety is maintained.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Family and Consumer Sciences, Criminal Justice, Psychology,Sociology, or Criminology from an accredited College or University.
• Must pass a CYFD Criminal Records Check
• Must maintain a full certification of the following trainings; CPR/First Aid and CPI
• Must maintain a valid NM Driver's Licenses