Relief Peer Partner

3 weeks ago

Redwood City, United States Edgewood Center for Children and Families Full time

**Mission Statement**

Edgewood is the place to begin for any child or youth to get the mental health care, social services, and academic support they need from highly trained welcoming professionals.

**Vision Statement**:
For everyone we serve to have the power to live life with understanding, confidence, strength, and joy.

**Relief Peer Partner, Drop -In Center - **This is a relief position that requires flexibility and availability in scheduling and coverage is needed at least two days during the following days and times: Monday-Thursday 2-8PM and Friday 1-6PM. This position is located at our South office in Redwood City.

**Program Summary**

The Edgewood Drop-In Center is a resource center designed specifically for 18-25-year-olds. Dinner is served nightly and computers with internet access, hygiene products, snacks and public transportation tokens are available to those in need. Referrals and resources are provided to address homelessness, legal issues, medical or mental health symptoms, academic and vocational barriers, and other concerns identified by our participants.

Regularly scheduled programming includes recreational opportunities, community meetings, social nights, vocational workshops, educational activities, workshops addressing independent living and daily living skills, arts/music exploration, and a myriad of groups and activities addressing personal health and wellness.

**Position Description**

Peer Partners facilitates a safe and welcoming environment for Drop-In Center participants; offer support and peer mentorship; provide empathy, validation, feedback, and unconditional support; give resources; and plan, implement, and co-facilitate groups and activities. In order to inform programming and connect with participants, Peer Partners, use their own personal life experiences which may include mental illness, physical health or medical issues, involvement with the juvenile justice or child welfare systems, substance use, trauma, immigration, family/community violence, and/or other experiences similar to those of our 18- 25-year-old participants.

**Core Competencies**
- Ability to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for current and new participants.
- Provides active support all participants as an informal counselor through listening to and identifying with their experiences, particularly around relationships, attitudes, personal goals, and personal rights.
- Employs supportive interpersonal skills, including validation, listening, empathy, responding to feeling and content, prompting, summarizing, problem-solving, use of humor, and limit-setting.
- Ability to assist young adults in meeting their personal and/or treatment goals.
- Calm and professional response to crisis, including the use of mediation and de-escalation techniques.

**Essential Functions**
- Provides oversight of programming both on and off-site, ensuring the engagement and safety of all participants.
- In collaboration with supervisor, colleagues, volunteers, and participants, the Peer Partner plans,
- coordinates, and co-facilitates activities and/or groups such as (but not limited to): therapeutic social support activities, skill-building groups, weekend activities, healthy evening meals, outings and enrichment activities around the Bay Area.
- Collaborates with other care providers to support plan of care and behavior goals.
- Encourages and supports participants in sharing their voice and perspective in order to enhance programming, advocate for their or the needs of all young adults, and/or to influence programs/policies.
- Regards 18-25-year-olds as persons with dignity and competence and engages them as full collaborators in service planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Understands and values cultural and racial differences, their alternative perspectives on mental illness, help-seeking and alternative healing practices, as well as lifestyles, goals, family, and community life.
- Attends and actively participates in supervision; enlists support, requests, and integrates feedback.
- Maintains positive work relationships in a respectful and collaborative manner.
- Completes documentation and required paperwork thoroughly and in a timely manner, which includes meeting monthly efficiency requirements for the position.
- Maintains confidential health records of young adults in compliance with the Edgewood, EPSDT, and San Mateo County Behavioral Health standards and regulations.
- Collaborates and communicates with internal and external stakeholders, in a manner that promotes agency mission, vision, and values; agency, region, and area goals; consumer and family satisfaction; and highest quality care.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Applied Knowledge, Skills, and **Abilities**
- Bachelor's Degree preferred, high school diploma or equivalent required.
- Personal life experiences which may include mental illness, physical health or medical issues, involvement with the juvenile justice or child welfare systems,

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