Bilingual Child Youth Program Assistant

Rose Andom Center Job Posting: Bilingual Child & Youth Program Assistant

The Rose Andom Center Colorado s first family justice center is a survivorcentered traumainformed collaborative that cultivates hope for individuals and families impacted by intimate partner abuse. The Bilingual Child & Youth Program Assistant will help support the Pathways and Camp Hope America Colorado program along with other child and youth events and programming with a focus on building programming for High Adventure youth. Camp Hope and Pathways is an evidencebased program for youth who have been impacted by violence. This involves monthly group mentoring events and a summer weeklong sleepaway camp. Daytoday activities will involve connecting with families to offer support to resources conducting intakes with new families and participants and helping to run and facilitate group events like Pathways. In addition this role will be key in offering support at camp by helping to run camp programming and offering behavioral and emotional support for campers and support for camp counselors.

Responsibilities:

Advocacy and Mentorship:

• Form trusting relationships and rapport with participants and their caregivers.
  
• Provide consistent impactful and traumainformed mentorship to participating youth.
  
• Provide referrals resource information and research for caregivers and participants.
  
• Connect caregivers to Navigation or the Resource Advocate team when IPV concerns arise for a family/caregiver.
  
• Offer monthly or bimonthly checkins with Pathways parents and caregivers to assess needs receive feedback on the program provide partner referrals and resource research as needed.
  
• Occasionally attend direct service staff meetings to stay up to date on resources and referral processes.
  
• Conduct intakes with new families help CYP Manager assess participant readiness for Camp Hope.
  
• Follow up with disengaged Pathways families.
  
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Assistance in Programming:

• Assist in planning and implementation of Pathways and other child and youth program events.
  
• Assist CYP Manager in designing High Adventure (teen) program based on the participants feedback and interests.
  
• Assist the CYP Manager in developing a data tracking system for RAC Children and Youth programming.
  
• Assist CYP Manager with Camp Hope surveys and sending them to the Camp Hope America team.
  
• Assist CYP Manager in camp staff and Hope Coach trainings by leading portions of the trainings and creating some training content based on expertise interest etc.
  
• Assist CYP Manager with Camp Hope programming (planning games activities crafts etc.).
  
• Assist CYP Manager in screening and interviewing Camp Hope Counselors.
  
• Work closely and cooperatively in a team setting with Rose Andom Center staff interns and volunteers.
  
• Complete all other duties as assigned.
  

• Domestic violence dynamics
  
• Family Justice Center principles
  
• Traumainformed care
  
• Deescalation and crisis intervention for children
  
• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
  
• Hope Research / Hope Theory
  
• Mentorship and/or clinical social work field supervision from Children & Youth Program Manager
  

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor s degree in social work or related field
  
• Bilingual Spanish speaking
  
• Live in the Denver Metro area yearround
  
• Availability for monthly Thursday evening and Saturday availability for Pathways events
  
• Must have fulltime availability to attend Camp Hope AmericaColorado August 5th10th and some availability MondayFriday 95pm
  
• Experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence and demonstrated knowledge of domestic violence dynamics and their impact on children in the home
  
• Basic knowledge of Denver area resources
  
• Knowledge of the Family Justice Center model
  
• 20 hours a week with full 24/7 availability for the week of camp
  
• Passion for working with youth impacted by trauma
  
• Screening process includes:
  • Application
    
  • Interview
    
  • Reference check
    
  • Background check with fingerprinting
    

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to prioritize and work independently while participating as a strong collaborative team member with a culturally diverse team of staff volunteers and clients.
  
• High level of professionalism and integrity.
  
• Highly adaptable and willing to learn.
  
• Commitment to social justice and survivor advocacy.
  
• Cultural competency and understanding of intersectionality willing to engage in ongoing justice diversity equity inclusion and belonging work.
  
• Bilingual English and Spanish required and bicultural skillset or proficiency in other languages highly desired.