Youth Mentor





The Opportunity

The Youth Mentor will work for the Empowerment Through Wellness to Prevent Gun Violence Initiative to deliver youth-focused gun violence prevention and community violence intervention programming.



Responsibilities


+ Conduct weekly face to face mentoring sessions with participants.

+ Identify high risk behaviors in youth and provide mentoring services to intervene in continued high risk activity.

+ Participate in case conference meetings as scheduled and work collaboratively with case manager, therapeutic counselor, court staff and community resources working with participant.

+ Respond to participant emergency notifications.

+ Document all their daily activities, including but not limited to contact with program participants, conflict mediation encounters, and community engagement events.

+ Risk-Reduction Planning- to modify high-risk behavior...