Parent Advocate

3 days ago


Brooklyn, New York, United States The Jewish Board of Children and Family Services Full time
Make a Bigger Difference

At The Jewish Board, we're dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. Our team is passionate about making a bigger difference in the lives of our clients and their families.

Join Our Mission

We're seeking a talented Family Peer Advocate to join our team. As a Family Peer Advocate, you'll work closely with caregivers of children and adolescents, and their families, to provide case management and advocacy services. You'll help plan, access, and coordinate services for children and their families, and work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services.

Responsibilities
  • Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child serving system
  • Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services
  • Participate in weekly supervision and staff meetings
  • Identify formal services and informal resources for families experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges
  • Assist families with identifying needs, strengths, and challenges
  • Monitor family progress to determine goals met
  • Collaborate with care providers and community supports to help families meet their goals
  • Develop a resource directory to identify formal services and informal services for families with mental health challenges or at risk of experiencing mental health challenges
  • Conduct outreach/information sessions/workshops with providers across the child serving system
  • Document demographic data on all individuals seen, document and track family's goals, and all services provided to parent/caregiver; participates in quality improvement activities
Qualifications

We're looking for talented individuals with the following qualifications:

  • Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges
  • Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Family Peer Advocate
  • Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups
  • Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system
  • Bilingual in Russian/Spanish/Urdu/Chinese is a strong plus
Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and 15 sick days
  • Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
  • Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
  • Free continuing education opportunities
  • 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
  • Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
  • 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join
About Us

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We're proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We're committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.


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