Youth Empowerment Manager
Core
Provides leadership and oversight for community-facing activities to assist youth and young adults in developing advocacy skills, community integration, and resource promotion, including implementing the MY LIFE program.
Role type
Youth Empowerment Manager (Peer Support)
Builds
Community partnerships, member engagement activities, and youth leadership mentorship programs.
Domain
Behavioral health, mental health, and substance use recovery services.
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Lived experience in mental health/substance use/foster care, youth advocacy, community partnership development, program implementation, peer support facilitation, recovery-oriented care principles, stakeholder liaison, data context reframing.
Preferred skills
Member advisory leadership, problem-solving in complex situations, independent decision-making.
Technologies
Microsoft Office Product Suite
Responsibilities
Lead the MY LIFE initiative and develop youth leadership opportunities; support member advisory activities with a focus on youth engagement; serve as a community interface for recovery and resiliency topics; liaise with community organizations to expand peer specialist use and support recovery-oriented programs; promote community participation as a recovery strategy.
Seniority
Mid-Senior level, hands-on IC