Youth Peer Advisor

## Overview At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime. The **Youth Peer Advisor** serves as a Trainer and Consultant. In this role, the Youth Peer Advisor will provide information, consultation, and technical assistance to FPAs and YPAs in the DOHMH-funded Family and Youth Peer Support (FYPS) programs and assist in developing training and curricula. ## Responsibilities - Responsible for planning and implementing activities associated with carrying out assigned program’s vision - Be prepared to train FYPS staff on family or youth-guided practice and key principles of family and youth peer support. - Ensures ongoing programmatic excellence, quality management, infrastructure to support and advance the services needed to meet families and programs need. - Attends all program meetings, conferences, stakeholder meetings (site visits) and including in-person meetings - Actively participate in meetings including when virtual meetings are occurring with the camera on and consistently speaking during the duration of the meeting - Provides training, consultation calls with a team (teams assigned) or staff. Able to train and consult with participant in navigating the mental health system. - Adopt a strength focused approach with families, stakeholder, and within the program/treatment team. - Able to work independently, as a team, and serve in the capacity of consultancy, training, and community coordinator - Adheres to high standards of personal conduct and maintain appropriate standards of professional behavior. - Maintains additional communication with multiple layers within the organization and with external partners/providers - Supports with event and program management. This includes: Convening planning committees, Managing follow-up and Coordinating event logistics and debriefs. Maintain a calendar community events to be present at to engage residents of - Monitors and follows the Learning Management System protocol for quality assurance - Monitors training needs, competencies of Staff/teams, and development needs. - Gains understanding of Foundling’s policy, compliance, and resources. Remains informed on latest policy and regulations related to program functions and diverse services sectors program interacts with. - Has management level check-in meeting(s) on model/process fidelity, certification tracking and monitoring. - Responsible to help remove barriers by conducting fit assessments on advances and barriers. - Able to travel outside of assigned borough/region. - Flexible and able to work both independently and with a team. - Managing data collection, documentation of outcomes, and draft reports - Coordinate efforts to solve local problems and assist in implementing solutions. - Assist in writing reports, concept papers and other materials needed for the program - Attend all required agency training. Participates in all evidence-based model program training, supervision and consultation activities. - Maintain communication with direct supervisor on advances and barriers - Maintain clear, concise and accurate documentation of progress that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrates compliance with evidenced based clinical model and meeting our agency’s expectation - Timely data entry…