Substance Use Prevention Specialist

7 days ago

Los Angeles, California, United States APLA Health Full time
Job Summary

APLA Health is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Prevention Training Specialist to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing strategies to educate individuals who use or abuse crystal methamphetamine on methods of harm reduction, while ensuring that our program is coordinated with APLA Health's harm reduction philosophy and larger health education goals.

Key Responsibilities
  • Recruitment and Outreach: Recruit members of the target population into group-level interventions focused on substance use harm-reduction and HIV and STD prevention.
  • Contingency Management: Implement contingency management strategies, including recruitment of participants, monitoring urine sample collection, recording of test results, distribution of incentives, and retention of participants throughout the intervention.
  • Training and Education: Assist in the development and facilitation of in-person and virtual workshop/trainings to members of the target demographic, as well as organizations who would benefit from information on crystal methamphetamine use/abuse.
  • Data Management: Gather and update data for the Referral Network, which will provide target populations and other community stakeholders with links to HIV testing, STD screening/treatment, substance abuse intervention/treatment, and mental health services as well as other health education-related areas.
  • Community Partnerships: Work with stakeholders and community partners familiar with the needs of the target demographic to create a network of care opportunities that include mental health providers, substance abuse counselors, treatment centers, advanced harm reduction programs, and linkage opportunities that will better the lives of persons using crystal methamphetamine.
  • Marketing and Promotion: Coordinate the design and layout of promotional materials used in the marketing of program activities and offerings.
  • Social Media Management: Monitor, update, and sustain program visibility on social media platforms, specifically Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
  • Knowledge Sharing: Assist in the dissemination of lessons learned by developing and submitting abstracts for presentations at professional meetings and local conferences and presenting at community forums.
  • Cultural Competence: Ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
  • Supervision: Supervise volunteers and peer health educators as necessary.
Requirements
  • Education and Experience: Associate's degree in a human services-related field or one year of experience working with gay and non-gay identified African American and Latino MSM and transgender individuals who use or abuse substances.
  • Knowledge and Skills: Familiarity with substance use/abuse challenges and harm-reduction strategies, experience in outreach, community organizing, and conducting educational trainings, knowledge of health disparities spectrum of HIV and STD disease, harm reduction theory, behavior modification theory, human sexuality, substance use and abuse, motivational interviewing techniques, outreach strategies, data management, health and social concerns of diverse populations of gay and non-gay identified MSM, risk reduction theory, principles of social marketing, and venues where the target population congregates, including the Internet.
  • Ability to: Work independently, work effectively with diverse staff, volunteers, and professionals, work effectively with diverse community stakeholders who may hold a wide range of opinions on gay and non-gay identified MSM who use or abuse substances, organize stakeholders and engage community building and establish linkages between stakeholders, identify particular goals and objectives with respect to harm reduction, meet frequent, sometimes conflicting deadlines in a rapidly changing environment, respond with sensitivity to social inequities and diverse ethnic groups, maintain confidentiality.

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