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Tucson Indian Center Youth Specialist in Tucson, Arizona
This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/6564786
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Please note: All applicants who are looking to be considered for this position MUST visit the Tucson Indian Center website and complete our Employment Application. Any resumes received without an application will not be considered, regardless of the individuals Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. The site can be accessed through the following URL: https://www.ticenter.org/employment/.
Nature of Work:\ The incumbent is responsible for coordinating the planning, implementation, completion, and evaluation partnership of the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Native Pride Project (NPP) goals, objectives, and activities. The purpose the NPP is to promote early intervention strategies and implement positive youth development programming to reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse. The incumbent will implement evidence-based and practice-based approaches to build resiliency, promote positive development, and increase self-sufficiency behaviors among Native youth. The incumbent will promote family engagement in youth/young adults around suicide prevention in the Tucson urban Indian community, addressing that strong connections to family and community support are a key protective factor for suicide. The incumbent will increase access to prevention activities for youth to prevent methamphetamine use and other substance use disorders that contribute to suicidal behaviors, in culturally appropriate ways.
Essential Functions:\ 1. Program Coordination: Leads the NPP program and program contributors in planning, implementation, completion, and evaluation of program deliverables.
2. Recruitment: Recruit youth and other participants for multiple evidence-based suicide prevention interventions.
3. Youth activities & events: Complete multiple youth suicide prevention activities, such as afterschool/summer school programs, youth camp/youth conference, family/community events and other activities.
4. Monthly support group: Implement a monthly support group for young adult urban Indians, providing education to build resiliency, promote positive development, and increase self- sufficiency behaviors.
5. Evaluation: Evaluate, in partnership with the evaluator, the effectiveness of the Native Pride
Project activities throughout the program year to continually strengthen the program intervention. Gather and incorporate input from family members on the evaluation and findings of the effectiveness of the Project at least once each program year.
6. Interviews & Safety Interventions: As required in the evaluation of the NPP, conduct multiple interviews with youth, gathering evaluation information and conducting suicide prevention interventions and other safety interventions when necessary.
7. Family engagement: Promote family engagement through family and community engagement activities that utilize early intervention strategies to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for suicidal behavior and substance abuse.
8. Partnerships: Maintain effective and collaborative relationships with multiple school programs, local neighborhood organizations, Indian Health Services, local Tribes, and others.
9. Suicide Intervention trainings: Train urban Indian youth, family members, and TIC staff in suicide prevention skills using evidence-based curriculum such as the Question, Persuade,
Refer (QPR) and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST). Have program participants complete required pre- and post-tests for deliverables.
10. Methamphetamine & substance abuse trainings: Train urban Indian youth, family members, and TIC staff in methamphetamine and substan ce abuse knowledge and skills.
11. Reports: Prepare and submit monthly reports on all program activities, measuring completion of all program deliverables.
12. Newsletter: Writes, edits and publishes the monthly Native Wellness Voice Newsletter.
13. Social networking: Submits content for the TIC social networking sites such as TIC
Facebook pages and website.
14. Performs other duties as assigned or requested.