Family Peer Advocate I or II

2 weeks ago

Syracuse, United States Hillside Family of Agencies Full time

We're hiring a Family Peer Advocate I or II at our Syracuse, NY location.

Full time position (40 hours) Monday to Friday with a flexible schedule. Some evenings/weekends required.

Join our Community Based Peer Support Services team, supporting families caring for youth aged birth to 21 with social, emotional, behavioral, substance, or medical needs. Leverage your lived experience to empower and strengthen advocacy skills, providing system navigation, educational support, and behavioral management techniques. This mobile role involves working with families in their homes and communities.

Under the supervision and general direction of the assigned manager, the Family Peer Advocate provides outreach, information, referrals, advocacy services, and helps to coordinate family support services for families of children with special needs. Applicants must be a parent or primary care giver of a child with special needs and/or social, emotional, or behavioral challenges.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide emotional support to families through phone and face to face meetings.

  • Meet program specific billable service requirements (as appropriate).

  • Meet documentation requirements in a timely manner per program guidelines.

  • Provide family support as needed.

  • Coach families on how to advocate for themselves.

  • Facilitate/co-facilitate meetings with families in their home or at an agency location.

  • Help families find ways to meet their basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, safety, and health.

  • Assist families in identifying parenting skills which could be strengthened, and model these skills to the families.

  • At the point of intake, help families assess their own resources for services needed. (such as respite, transportation and child care)

  • Act as an advocate in identifying and accessing community services and resources for families.

  • Help family identify gaps in services needed and assist in planning to eliminate gap.

  • Help families to identify strengths upon which to build a foundation of improved communication and coping skills.

Requirements:

Level I:

  • Must be the parent or primary care giver of a child with special needs and/or social, emotional or behavioral challenges

  • Must include a COVER LETTER DESCRIBING RELEVANT EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED WITH RESUME

  • Must have a minimum of a High School Diploma or GED

  • Must have experience in navigating systems (general or special education, court, specialized therapies, etc.) to obtain services for their child/family and/or have experience supporting/assisting other families in obtaining assistance

  • Have a valid driver’s license and meet agency driving standards

  • Must demonstrate proficiency in all essential functions of the Family Advocate position, or must have 2 years of external experience in a comparable position demonstrating the same

  • Ability to complete many job responsibilities from home with a flexible schedule

Level II:

Demonstrated proficiency in all essential functions of the Family Peer Advocate I position or 2 years of external experience in a comparable position.

Level I: $15.00 Minimum Rate per hour, $20.23 Maximum Rate per hour, based on experience.

Level II: $15.00 Minimum Rate per hour, $21.85 Maximum Rate per hour, based on experience.

Hillside is committed to equal opportunities for all, supporting a diverse workforce, creating great opportunities for our Agency, our people, and to those whom we serve. We offer a competitive benefits package to include very generous paid time off, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending account, 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match, paid holidays, and Employee Assistance Plan, just to name a few of the amazing benefits at Hillside You’ll be working with great people and great clientele where you can truly make a difference. Apply online, get on board, and grow you career with us. You’ll be so glad you did

EOE/AA Disability/Veteran

Requisition ID: 1453

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