[Hiring] Associate, Youth Mental Health @Peer Health Exchange, Inc

Role Description

As the Mental Health Coordinator you will support the Community Partnerships Team in creating a collective experience for the Youth Mental Health Corp across 16 states and design, develop and implement a Youth Mental Health Corp Leadership Fellows Program. You will report directly to the Director, School-Based Programs.

Here’s what you will do as part of our team:

• Create a collective experience for the Youth Mental Health Corp across 16 states.
• Design and host monthly virtual spaces to foster supportive relationships, address challenges, and celebrate successes.
• Utilize Learning Management System (LMS)/digital platform for synchronous and asynchronous training and professional development resources.
• Provide training and coaching on:
  • near-peer mentoring
  • skills-based mental health education
  • behavioral health field exploration
  • understanding secondary trauma and dealing with compassion fatigue
  • youth advocacy
• Provide access to mental health supports and resources.
• Create monthly feedback mechanisms for YMHC to voice their needs/thoughts.
• Build relationships and conduct in-person visits with AmeriCorps programs, host sites, and members.
• Track member attendance data and exit surveys.
• Co-design, develop and implement a Youth Mental Health Corp Leadership Fellows Program.
• Support the Fellows nomination process.
• Co-design leadership and development curriculum.
• Identify certification programs for Youth Mental Health Corp Leadership Fellows.
• Implement outreach plan among the entire Youth Mental Health Corp member community to recruit Leadership Fellows.
• Lead fellowship meetings.
• Collect and manage exit survey data for fellowship meetings.

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience implementing programs and increasing community mental health awareness.
• Willing and able to work remotely.
• Attentive to detail and efficient in the management of diverse tasks.
• Ability to virtually facilitate to a large group of individuals.
• Demonstrate a strong passion for PHE’s mission to build healthier communities with young people; strong alignment with PHE’s core values of Health Equity, Commitment, Communication, Agency, and Impact.
• Centers youth inclusion, community partnership, and equity work visibly, broadly, in action in part through deep listening and hearing with a lens of.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Social Work, Education, or similar (preferred).
• Previous Americorps member experience preferred.

Benefits

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