Youth Support Partner

Because you want to help teens! Our Youth Partners serve as mentors and guides to teens who've experienced trauma and family displacement. They serve as part of our child welfare teams to support their work as they strive to give these teens a voice and choice while finding their future home. If you enjoy flexibility, and the opportunity to really make a difference, there's more below:

The Youth Partner position will provide engagement, support, guidance, mentoring, advocacy and empowerment to the youth assigned to their caseload. They will serve on a team of child welfare professionals that includes Case Managers and Permanency Specialists. The primary goal is to successfully engage and connect with adolescents who historically struggle to engage in their own treatment. The Youth Partner will help the adolescents find their voice and exercise their choice throughout their time in custody. The Youth Partner will also be a key responder for adolescents experiencing a crisis during scheduled work hours and as a part of an on-call rotation.

The population served will be adolescents, many of which have experienced significant trauma and multiple family displacements and disruptions in their young lives. The Youth Partner will carry a caseload on average of 17 youth, which will allow them to work intensively with each case to ensure successful outcomes.

Youth Partners must have reliable transportation as they will be expected to assist with providing transportation for adolescents assigned to Thompson’s Teen Case Management Unit as needed. (Mileage will be reimbursed.)

Ideal candidates will have the following professional characteristics:

• High degree of ethical behavior and integrity
• Maintain flexibility in schedule and style to meet the needs of the families they are serving
• Solution focused mindset
• Ability to be non-reactive in the midst of high stress, crisis situations
• Trauma informed philosophy and congruent behaviors
• Experience and ability to work with adults and children from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic environments

• Bachelor Degree in Human Services
• Prior professional experience with child welfare preferred.
• Personal lived experience preferred.
• A valid driver’s license, at least 3 years of driving with a driver’s license and clean driving record are required. All potential job candidates must pass a drug screening test, and an extensive background check is required.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands:

While performing the duties of this job, employees are required to walk, sit, use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Thompson is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.