New Avenues for Youth is committed to supporting a workplace that honors, celebrates, and acknowledges our community’s powerful differences. Through our work here, we move together to support the wellbeing, care, and growth of youth in our community. To be at our best, we embrace that the diverse communities we serve must be reflected in our colleagues supporting the work we do each day. We are committed to our workforce centering practices that support and encourage Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, and people with non-dominant gender identities to grow and thrive.

We encourage Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, and people with non-dominant gender identities who may not believe they meet all of the described qualifications to consider what they contribute to community, and apply.

Your New Role:

Serve as a Life Skills Coach provide case management, skill development, resource brokerage and referral, case coordination and advocacy services to former and current youth in care ages 16-20. In addition, perform the role of LGBTQ+ Specialist on three levels: 1) working with individual LGBTQ-identified youth referred to PDX-Connect, 2) acting as one of the team leaders on LGBTQ-specific issues for program youth/staff/interns, including how we’re modifying our services to best meet the needs of youth in the program, and 3) serve as a point person for LGBTQ advocacy and education for PDX-Connect with our community partners.

What this Role Is...

Coaching – supporting transition age youth to identify and achieve their goals as they transition to adulthood

Skill-building – providing scaffold support to help those we serve build internal and external assets and skills to achieve their self-identified goals

Resource Brokerage –identifying resources and connecting those we serve with supportive resource and permanent connections

Advocacy – creating opportunity for youth to have be leaders on their support teams

Skills & Attributes:

• Understanding of the assets, needs and development of transition age youth
• Ability to utilize traditional and non-traditional methods of skill-building to engage youth in the program and identify school, work and life related goals and plans.
• Capacity to self-manage and self-advocate as related to community-based work

Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology or related human services field or combination of a lived personal experience in foster care and work experience. Will consider lived experience in substitute of years of Education.

· At least 2 years of experience working with youth who face multiple barriers

· Basic working knowledge of the foster care system

· A minimum of 2 years of experience working with LGBTQ youth, and a strong working knowledge of the core elements involved in youth work, such as mental health, trauma, abuse, resilience and adolescent development including brain development.

· Experience, ability, and commitment to working with LGBTQ and other culturally diverse staff, participants and community, particularly around the politics, theories and practice models surrounding gender and sexuality.

· Use of personal/agency vehicle for transporting self and clients for work purposes

· Ability to work with multi-cultural staff and youth

About Us…

New Avenues is an innovative, influential social services agency that works in partnership with the Portland area community to provide homeless, foster-care, and at-risk youth of all backgrounds with the resources and skills needed to lead healthy, productive lives. At New Avenues, everyone is youth centered and collaboratively work together to accomplish our mission.

We are a diverse non-profit organization serving this community for over 23 years. At New Avenues, we seek dynamic, spirited individuals looking to contribute to the success of these amazing young people. Being part of our team offers a rewarding experience where your contributions have impact. Our approachable and supportive management team is focused on providing you with the tools, guidance, and autonomy to thrive while gaining invaluable social services background.

Our Commitment to Equity…

Back in 2015, New Avenues for Youth embarked on an unending initiative to consistently advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Today, we are a more curious and consciously aware agency of employees invested in the ongoing practice of learning from multiple perspectives and lived experiences. We firmly believe equity is an ongoing commitment without closure; in taking risks, we will learn from our mistakes. We are an organization committed to listen to each other and those that we serve, to always strive for transparency, to remain humble, and to resist the urge to simplify or silence hard truths. We make these commitments because we believe in social justice and the inherent human dignity of each individual.

New Avenues Offers a Comprehensive Benefits Package…

Paid Vacation, Sick, and Personal Time, Paid Holidays, No Employee Cost Share for your Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance, Short and Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance. Flexibility Spending Accounts, a 403b Retirement Savings Plan, and an Employee Assistance Resource and Referral Program.

COVID-19 considerations:

As a condition of employment, all employees are required to provide proof of vaccination and booster or a valid medical or religious exemption. Masks are required no matter your vaccination status.

New Avenues for Youth is an Equal opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $21.20 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
New Avenues is following all CDC and OHA recommended COVID safety protocols.

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Portland, OR 97205

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