Young Adult Peer Mentor

Summary

The Youth and Young Adult (YYA) Access Center (AC) Young Adult Peer Mentor (YAPM) is a young adult who has personal experience living with and recovering from mental health needs, substance use challenges, and/or traumatic life experiences. They have experienced challenges in one or more areas that interfered significantly with their everyday life. The AC YAPM is essential in welcoming new YYA to services and to the activities offered at the AC.

The AC YAPM is key in supporting YYA using Achieve My Plan-PLUS (AMP+).

• Works with the YYA (if chosen) to enhance skills of self-direction and empowerment.
• Provides 1:1 support, coaching, and modeling to support and improve engagement in services.
• Carries caseload of 10 YYA for the purposes of providing individual 1:1 peer mentoring.
• Provides the core staffing for the AC.
• Uses the Young Adult Peer Mentoring Practice Profile to define role.
• Provides outreach and marketing efforts to educate YYA and other stakeholders in the community about the program and services.
• Helps the AC leadership, clinician, and TIP Facilitator staff with the identification and accessing of existing and new services and service providers that will benefit the YYA.
• Helps the YYA to develop supportive relationships and community connections.
• Promotes the development of healthy lifestyles and wellness practices, including substance use.
• Supports the YYA in the development of self-sufficiency and positive employment behaviors.
• Helps the YYA to identify their needs and goals relating to education, employment, family relationships, spirituality, and social recreation, and ensure they are integrated in their service planning.
• Helps YYA in communicating and working effectively with service providers, employers, natural supports, family members, and others to achieve their goals.
• Helps YYA in developing life skills, finding their voice and identifying and using their strengths.

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• Uses Achieve My Plan PLUS, Gathering and Inspiring Future Talent, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and other evidence-informed/based and best practice models, as trained.
• Promotes discovery and recovery as they use their own lived experience in a purposeful, strength-based way to support YYA.
• Inspires hope and future focus in YYA.
• Attends in-service trainings and staff meetings.
• Helps YYA develop self-advocacy skills, in groups or individually.
• Serves as a bridge between the child/young adult-serving mental health service systems on behalf of the YYA.
• Helps maximize choices available to YYA as well as their self-determination, and participation and decision-making in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of their services.
• Models effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
• Provides crisis intervention, when needed.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee-funded 403(b) plan
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short-Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous paid time off (Employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
  • 15 days of Vacation per year
  • 11 Paid Holidays
  • 10 Sick Days per year
  • 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more!

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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• A high school diploma or equivalent is required;
  Bachelor's degree in a human services discipline strongly preferred
• Experience as a recipient of services for people with psychiatric…