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SalaryTraining & Outreach Coordinator I Youth Services (Olympic Suicide Prevention Center)
This position is partially remote. The pay range for this position is between $27.30 - $30.33 per hour.
About Didi Hirsch
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has been a national leader in whole-person mental health, crisis care, and substance use services since 1942 and is home to the nation’s first Suicide Prevention Center. We are a nonprofit organization providing care to nearly 200,000 people annually across our programs. Didi Hirsch has deep roots in community-based mental health and a commitment to providing culturally responsive services that are just and equitable.
As an organization, we value equity, diversity, and inclusion. More than 1,000 dedicated employees and volunteers make Didi Hirsch’s work possible. We intentionally recruit and retain a workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve and strive to cultivate a sense of belonging for them. We embrace employees and candidates from all backgrounds who want to help make this vision a reality.
Summary
This position is responsible for coordinating the SPC and Teen Line programs’ youth focused community training and outreach related activities and providing guidance to the participants and the program. This position also supports the SPC training and outreach team in all non-youth focused community outreach activities and events.
Primary Duties
- Serve as the lead and main point of contact (for assigned counties) for questions and information related to county and community sponsored youth-focused trainings and outreach activities.
- Serve as the primary presenter and program representative at youth, parent, school and youth service provider trainings and outreach events.
- Participate in all suicide prevention training and outreach in assigned counties.
- Under the guidance of the program’s managers, regularly update and maintain existing curriculum and may create new training presentations.
- Support the training and outreach program’s database maintenance and reporting requirements.
- Coordinate and support volunteers for speaking engagements or health/info tables.
- Support the training and outreach team in updating and maintaining the Speakers’ Bureau for suicide prevention requests.
- Track dissemination and initiated outreach promoting trainings – including discussions resulting from related outreach.
- Support program management in identifying areas with limited youth mental health and suicide prevention resources and in engaging underserved communities.
- May conduct ASIST workshops for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) within Didi Hirsch training department and the SPC crisis line program.
- Provide and disseminate information related to and discuss training for trainers requirements with potential candidates.
- Promote awareness of trainings throughout designated counties including the program’s menu of suicide prevention trainings, ASIST T4Ts, safeTALK T4Ts, 2-day ASIST workshops, and ½ day safeTALK workshops.
Position Requirements
- Working knowledge of mental health services and suicide prevention
- Working knowledge of Agency policies and procedures, HIPAA, DMH, Department of Social Services, and other state, federal regulations related to outpatient and crisis line.
- Public speaking/presentation experience.
- Advanced skills to present ideas, information, and viewpoints clearly, both verbally and in writing.
- Superior organizational skills to manage multiple projects.
- Effectively collaboration and relationship building.
- Telephone and personal computer skills including word processing, spreadsheets, and other related software.
- Ability to use analysis, experience, and judgment to make effective decisions.
- High School diploma or equivalent; Bachelor's degree preferred.
Our Vision
A future where everyone has equitable access to care and is empowered to achieve optimal mental health and well-being.
Our Mission
Didi Hirsch provides compassionate mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention services to individuals and families, especially in communities where discrimination and injustice limit access.
CORE VALUES
Excellence: We are constantly innovating, learning from the communities we serve, and applying the latest research to advance best practices. We uphold the highest ethical standards to ensure we are providing compassionate and excellent care.
Diversity & Inclusion: We value diversity of background, experience, and ideas, committing to a workforce representative of the communities we serve. We celebrate differences and prioritize creating a sense of belonging.
Equity: We are dedicated to maintaining equitable practices in our healthcare delivery and workplace culture, and we work to dismantle disparities and discrimination within both systems of care and society.
Well Being: We are devoted to the well-being of our staff, volunteers, and communities, and believe healthy teams lead to healthy clients.
Advocacy: We advocate across all levels of government and use our voice to reduce barriers to care, including stigma, systemic racism, and parity across payers, with the goal of access to high quality, integrated healthcare for all.
Community Engagement: We build partnerships in the community and across sectors to create a more inclusive and responsive mental health ecosystem and enhance greater accessibility to care and support.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
