Youth Wellness Therapist

6 days ago

Pine Grove, California, United States Amity Foundation Full time
Transform Lives with Amity Foundation

We are seeking a compassionate Youth Wellness Therapist to join our team at the Amity Foundation, an internationally renowned therapeutic community. This groundbreaking opportunity will enable you to work with our prison programs, helping inmates and enhancing your training and experience in the field.

About Amity:

The Amity Foundation is a safe haven where individuals can change in a supportive environment that fosters trust, new values, responsibility, and lasting relationships. Our mission is dedicated to inclusion and habilitation for people marginalized by addiction, homelessness, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, and violence. We commit to research, development, implementation, and dissemination of information regarding community building.

Our core values include Remembrance, Resolution, Reconciliation, Restoration, and Renewal.

About the Position:

This Youth Wellness Therapist develops, coordinates, implements, and supervises structured activities for youth to relieve stress, learn healthy lifestyles, and acquire cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills. Drawing on personal talents, hobbies, and positive forms of recreation, this position encourages mind-body wellness through health, nutrition, physical activities, groups, and relaxation techniques.

This is a Non-Exempt position with an hourly wage of $28.84.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Uses evidence-based assessment instruments to collect data with participants to determine their physical, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning strengths and limitations.
  • Interprets assessment results to inform writing functional outcome goals designed to improve participant's physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral functioning.
  • Develops, coordinates, implements, and supervises activities for youth to promote stress relief and healthy lifestyles.
  • Teaches cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills.
  • Encourages participation in the treatment program.
  • Instructs youth in leisure awareness and leisure counseling.
  • Aids in the adjustment to the PGYCC setting.
  • Offers independent living skills instruction.
  • Provides therapy that promotes wellness.
  • Designs and delivers recreational therapeutic activities to decrease symptoms and foster awareness and growth.
  • Encourages mind-body wellness through health, nutrition, physical activities, groups, relaxation, and stress reduction techniques.
  • Orders and maintains supplies and equipment used for all activities.
  • Maintains sensitivity and objectivity under pressures generated by association with participants.
  • Demonstrates ability to provide warmth, empathy, and honesty to participants to facilitate positive change and develop a treatment alliance with participants.
  • Provides program participants with frequent acknowledgment and reinforcement for positive behaviors, as well as consistent and predictable feedback for negative behaviors, which may include reporting violations to PGYCC staff.
  • Demonstrates ethical behavior to maintain professional standards and safeguard the participant.
  • Protects and maintains participants' health, safety, welfare, and confidentiality of records and information.
  • Models professionalism, effective work habits, and responsible living.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution in Therapeutic Recreation or a related field.
  • Certification by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC).
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule, hours subject to change based on program needs.
  • Pass a background check administered by CDCR.

We Offer:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits.
  • Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
  • 401K, HSA, and Life insurance programs.
  • A community-oriented workplace committed to community action.

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