Youth Prevention Coordinator

Position Title: Youth Prevention Coordinator

Reports to: Youth Clinical Services Manager

Classification: Full-Time | Non-Exempt

Salary & Benefits: $65,000 - $70,000. The Center offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer contribution, voluntary life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance, paid parental, family care, and gender affirming healthcare leave. We also offer a generous paid time off policy.

Schedule: Generally Monday through Friday. Work days and hours may shift depending on scheduling needs; typical schedule will be 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or 11:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; flexibility required. This position is classified as a hybrid role with a minimum of 4 days onsite per week, with Thursdays as a staff-wide in-office day.

Summary: The Youth Prevention Coordinator will plan, implement, and coordinate The Center’s programming to prevent substance use, as well as decrease substance-related health and social disparities including reducing emergency room and inpatient hospitalizations with a focus on LGBTQ youth and young adults through a race and gender equity lens. The Youth Prevention Coordinator will supervise Center Youth graduate student interns.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide direct individual prevention interventions including intake, screening, assessment, engagement, counseling, and crisis-intervention, elements of case management and advocacy, referral and follow-up services.
• Work with the Youth Clinical Services Manager and the Director of Youth Services in meeting Prevention program service goals including DOHMH and OASAS funding requirements.
• Maintain all client and programmatic files, including attendance records, evaluation components, relevant data entry, and progress reports for all direct service work.
• Provide direct task and clinical supervision to up to two (2) graduate student interns.
• Coordinate the scheduling and facilitation of Prevention closed groups to meet annual DOHMH, SAMHSA & OASAS work plan deliverables.
• Support documentation and reporting on grant deliverables, including the completion of annual DOHMH and OASAS reports while taking part in stakeholder meetings.
• Support the coordination and implementation of staff and intern training in the implementation of BASICS, Teen Intervene, SBIRT, SPORT and GPRAs, including entering contacts and documentation into stakeholder databases.
• Manage the scheduling, completion and maintenance of intakes for Center Youth and Youth Clubhouse programming in Salesforce and provide oversight to ensure quality assurance.
• Coordinate the provision of onsite and offsite Prevention services, training sessions and events in collaboration with relevant stakeholders such as school and agency administration staff in accordance with grant deliverables.
• Provide Supervisor On-Duty coverage at least once per week in the Youth Drop-in Space to assist with any behavioral or clinical concerns and to oversee operations and distribution of Metrocards as needed.
• Support and attend the annual Center Youth Camp, including participating in camp activities and serve as an Emotional Fitness Coach for check-in support with participants as needed.
• Support the coordination and implementation of annual Pride-related outreach and community engagement.
• Provide care coordination that facilitates and documents participant-centered care for participants across Center teams and departments to better address multiple and co-occurring concerns.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position requirements

• LMSW/LMHC/MHC-LP/LCSW or CASAC/CASAC-T.
• Two (2) to four (4) years of clinical experience providing substance use prevention services to youth and young adults.
• Experience providing supervision; SIFI certified required.
• Bilingual or multilingual, a plus. Language preferences: Spanish, Bengali, Russian, and/or French-Creole.
• Ability to lead discrete projects and/or client engagements.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in team management.
• Strong organizational and written/verbal communication skills.
• Collaborates with teammates and members of the broader Center community, leading with a problem solving versus problem spotting orientation.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with a wide range of workstyles and cultural backgrounds.
• Knowledge, understanding and experience working with LGBTQ+, TGNC, POC, and Immigrant populations, including knowledge of the spectrum of gender identity, transgender issues, immigration, and POC issues.
• Understanding of, and commitment to, undoing structural and institutional racism and bias and the spectrum of gender identity and bias. Consideration of the impacts and outcomes in decision-making processes and on underserved and historically oppressed communities.
• A strong commitment to social justice and the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

The Center’s Commitment to Equity & Inclusivity:

The Center was born of community activism in response to the AIDS epidemic, ensuring a place for LGBTQ people to access information, care, and support that they were not receiving elsewhere. We opened in 1983 to help people who had doors constantly closed in their faces, ostracized by family, friends, and shunned by the general society. Since that time, we have continually provided a wide array of services and programs to serve our community, with an intentional focus on providing support to those who are most vulnerable. We have always taken great care to be a space that responds to community need; engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion work is another outgrowth of those ongoing efforts. We recognize that in order to help LGBTQ individuals and our diverse community achieve parity in health, justice, opportunity and success outcomes, our organization must hold a strong foundation and competency in, as well as invest organizational focus on, equity and inclusion frameworks, practices and policies. This is also true in our hiring and retention of staff.

The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.