Description:

POSITION/BUSINESS TITLE: Y/YA Peer Support Specialist

PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT: Onondaga County Department of Children & Family Services

REPORTS TO: Transitions Facilitator Supervisor

CCSI SERVICE LINE: Program Management

HOURS: 20 hours

LOCATION: Syracuse, NY

Put the CARE in your CAREER!

At CCSI, our mission is to activate possibilities for our customers and employees through collaboration, compassion, equity, and imagination. For more than 30 years, CCSI has been a leading non-profit partner to local governments, schools, and community-based organizations, helping them improve their business processes so they can focus on their missions. If you’re looking for a career with purpose that creates lasting change in the community, we encourage you to apply.

ABOUT THE POSITION:

The OnCare Healthy Transitions Project Y/YA Peer Support Specialist will be an individual who has had direct experience with mental health services and will utilize those lived experiences to collaborate with, coach, challenge and support individuals to view their life situations as an opportunity for change and/or growth within everyone’s recovery. The Y/YA Peer Support Specialist will aid mental health providers and youth/young adults to move towards self-advocacy in the attainment of their own, culturally specific life objectives. The Y/YA Peer Support Specialist will accomplish this through direct support of youth/young adults as a peer mentor relationship, by helping agencies develop services that are youth guided and serving as a resource to youth/young adults served by OnCare Healthy Transitions Project staff and/or System of Care.

In this role, you will be working closely With OCFS but are an employee of Coordinated Care Services Inc (CCSI). The pay and benefits provided associated with the role reflect those offered by Coordinated Care Services Inc (CCSI) and would not be eligible for any pay or benefits programs offered by OCFS

Requirements:

What You Bring:

• The youth/young adult peer support specialist will have a minimum of high school diploma or equivalent or equivalent education and work experience (see CCSI's equivalency chart).
• Identify as having direct lived experience with mental health services past or present and be able to bring this expertise to the Healthy Transitions Project to ensure services, supports and the TIP process are driven by youth/young adults
• FTNYS Youth Peer Advocate Certification (required within 120 days of employment)
• Understanding of and ability to apply the TIP (Transition to Independence Process)
• Ability to mee the annual FTNYS requirements to maintain YPA Credentialing
• Access to reliable transportation

Required for this position are:

• Interact with and support youth/young adults as a peer by sharing common experiences and modeling resiliency and recovery.
• Assist in engaging youth/young adults involved with the welfare system, justice system, education system, youth and family organizations and/or department of social services and economic development
• Assist youth/young adults in discovering and understanding components of recovery and resiliency and in applying skills to achieve life goals.
• Provide individualized direct support to peers according to the individual’s plan by supporting the individual’s choice and building confidence, leading to a greater degree of independence
• Work cooperatively and effectively with individuals and groups from diverse populations.
• Other duties as assigned
• Communicating effectively.
• Building collaborative relationships.
• Valuing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment.
• Striving for self-development and taking initiative to be resourceful.
• Problem-solving both independently and with others.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Satisfactory completion of all required background screenings
• Valid Driver’s License

At CCSI, you’ll enjoy:

• Market-competitive compensation
• An award-winning Wellness@Work and employee benefits program.
• An organization that is committed to racial equity and anti-racist practices.
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• A voice in shaping CCSI’s ever-evolving diverse company culture.

We Are CCSI!

For more than 30 years, CCSI has been a leading non-profit partner to government agencies, schools, and community-based organizations in the mental and behavioral health space. We aim to maximize these organizations’ potential to serve their communities by supporting their business operations and staffing needs. We dream of communities where everyone flourishes, and we are proud to help our customers move towards that goal.

At CCSI, you are not just part of a team, you are part of a community. You do not just fit in, you belong. We are proud of our steadfast commitment to equity, working diligently to remedy the impact of systems of racism and other forms of oppression to ensure that everyone in our employee community can flourish. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to consider joining us.

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Coordinated Care Services, Inc (CCSI) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.