Youth and Family Skills Coach

1 month ago

Auburn, United States Cayuga Centers Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a Youth and Family Skills Coach

Location: Auburn, NY

Pay: $20.00 hourly - $22.00 hourly based on Education

Plus great benefits, including:

  • 80 hours of Vacation

  • 10 Holidays, 3 Personal Days, Medical Appointment Time

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Pet and Legal insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • FSA, Transit, and Parking savings accounts

  • Supplemental life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability benefits

  • 401(k) match up to 6%

  • Corporate Discounts Program

  • Sick Leave Pool

  • Identity Protection

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families in our community

About Cayuga Centers

Cayuga Centers is an accredited non-profit, human services agency dedicated to family support and preservation, trauma-informed care, and serving vulnerable populations with the most unique needs. Founded in 1852 in Auburn, NY, we have a long history of delivering high-quality and innovative services to individuals, children, youth and families. We have 22 locations across 8 states and serve over 10,000 individuals and families annually. Join us

At Cayuga Centers, we embrace Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB). We do this by taking a firm stance against hatred, inequality, bias, and injustice. We do this by providing our staff with the training, coaching, and resources necessary to grow and serve with cultural humility, acceptance, and understanding. We are responsive to the diverse needs of those we serve and staff, and are committed to ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued, and a sense of belonging.

About the Program and Position:

Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens (ages 0-21) who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents, and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved. We serve youth and families by teaming with Local Department of Social Services officials, Office of Child and Family Services, Office of People With Developmental Disabilities, and community resource partners to provide bundled, strength-based, therapeutic interventions that change children's lives.

Cayuga Centers is seeking a Youth and Family Skills Coach to provide support and mentoring to Youth in our TFFC program. Under the supervision of the Assistant Director of Youth and Family Skills Coaches and in cooperation with all other CNY TFFC staff members and agency personnel, Assistant Director of CFTSS, your responsibilities will include meeting with youth one or more times a week to work on skill development, helping them succeed at school, in the foster home, community, in the permanency resource homes, and navigating life challenges. The Youth Skills Coach is crucial in making a difference by providing guidance, support, and resources to empower young individuals to achieve their personal goals.

How you get to use your skills…

  • Provide life skills coaching to youth at least 1 hour per week, one or more times per week, as determined by the team and an assessment of youth need

  • Conduct life skill development assessments, using approved assessment methods

  • Following assessment and supporting Treatment Plan goals, create a Life Skills Development Plan and provide psychosocial rehabilitation activities to meet the youth's needs, as specified by the assessment and Treatment plan, and to support developmentally appropriate functioning of the youth.

  • Complete and document required credit checks and reviews with youth

  • Immediately report and respond to emergencies, such as runaways, accidents, or medical problems

  • Provide home, community, and school-based behavioral stabilization/coaching/support as necessary and outlined in Behavior Modification Plans

  • Consult with the youth's Treatment Team, participate in supervision and act as a part of the youth's Treatment Team, whose ultimate goal is to ensure that every one of the placed youth is living in a nurturing, safe, and permanent family as quickly as possible. This individual will also assist with family time/visitation.

  • Plan, supervise, and document family time that takes place between youth and their families/relatives using the Coaching Family Visits approach. To include supervising, preparing for, and de-briefing family time

  • Provide transportation for youth as needed

  • Document all contact with youth and families on Connections and Netsmart within the 72-hour requirement

  • Attend treatment-related meetings such as school meetings, Service Plan Reviews, Clinical Team meetings, etc

  • Attend required training to enhance skills and knowledge as it pertains to their role as a Youth and Family Skills Coach

Schedule:

  • Non Exempt

  • 40 hours per week

  • Schedule will be provided based on program needs, evenings, and one weekend day required



  • High school diploma required

  • One year of experience working with youth and families

  • Training in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention preferred

  • Ability to actively participant on a treatment team

  • Ability to maintain and uphold professional boundaries

  • Ability to communicate respectfully and clearly in writing and verbally

  • Ability to work effectively and patiently with others in difficult and/or stressful situations

  • Ability to work within treatment models and acceptable behavior management principles to encourage behavior change

  • Valid NYS Driver's License required

  • Safe and dependable vehicle required

Physical Requirements:

  • Ability to drive and operate a motor vehicle with passengers for at least four consecutive hours

  • Ability to participate in physical activities with program youth, including running, jumping, bending, and twisting

  • Ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods of time

  • Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs

  • Ability to walk up and down stairs repeatedly



Benefits:

  • 80 hours of Vacation

  • 10 Holidays, 3 Personal Days, Medical Appointment Time

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Pet and Legal insurance

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • FSA, Transit, and Parking savings accounts

  • Supplemental life insurance, critical illness, enhanced short-term disability benefits

  • 401(k) match up to 6%

  • Corporate Discounts Program

  • Sick Leave Pool

  • Identity Protection

Why Cayuga Centers?

  • Certified Great Place to Work ®

  • Workplace Wellness Award Finalist

  • Council on Accreditation (COA) Accredited

  • Implement best practices and evidence-based interventions

  • Committed to employee professional development and advancement

  • We embrace change, innovation and opportunities

  • Our diverse workforce acts and leads with human sensitivity and respect

  • Large and growing national footprint

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