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Arrell Youth Centre

Hamilton, Ontario

• Facilitate Case Management meetings with young persons, guardians and Probation Services• Working with young people with emotional, psychiatric and behavioral difficulties • Establish and maintain positive working relationships with other community service providers supporting families and children. • Acting as an advocate on behalf of enrolled young persons and/or their parents with other community service providers ensuring that young persons and their families receive the best services possible. • Complete assigned administrative duties and any other duties as required by Management• Manage both online and paper copies of young persons’ files

• Work with young people with emotional, psychiatric and behavioral difficulties • Ensure the safety and security of clients, staff and the program by promoting a shared commitment to complying with policy, procedure and best practices • Deliver strength-based client interventions by acting as support, role model and partner to the client in meeting their individual goals • Share and exchange all necessary information • Complete assigned administrative duties and any other duties as required by Management • Work effectively and contribute within a multi-disciplinary team • Assist in program facilitation using the SNAP for Youth Justice model to teach youth problem solving and coping skills

• Group Facilitation - with strict adherence to a manualized cognitive behavioural program, facilitate weekly group sessions with enrolled boys/girls and/or parents to teach SNAP®. • Case Management - relying on standardized assessment tools, validated risk management tools, and other intake and information gathering tools accurately to develop, implement, and monitor strength based, culturally competent, goal-oriented case management plans designed to achieve the outcomes of the program. • Counselling, Mentoring, and Coaching - using SNAP® skills to provide counselling, mentoring and coaching to either parents, boys or girls in an individual or group setting. • Advocacy - acting as an advocate on behalf of enrolled boys/girls or their parents with other community service providers ensuring that boys/girls and their families receive the best services possible. • Therapeutic Alliance - establish a therapeutic alliance with boys/girls and/or families that provides for the constructive challenging of anti-social thinking and behaviours and reinforcing pro-social thinking and behaviours. • Establish and maintain positive working relationships with other community service providers supporting families and children. • Assist in training and supervising volunteers and student placements. Job includes case-management, facilitation, advocacy, counselling, and developing therapeutic relationships with clients.

Banyan Community Services

-Worked with young people with emotional, psychiatric and behavioral difficulties-Delivered strength based client interventions by acting as support, role model and partner to the client in meeting their individual goals-Complete assigned administrative duties and any other duties as required by Management

Graduate Certificate, Concurrent Disorders

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology