AspireHope NY, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Family Peer Advocate in Yates County, NY.

Job Title : Family Peer Advocate

Title Description : Family Peer Advocates have 'lived-experience' as the parent or legal guardian of a child / youth with an emotional, behavioral, social, and / or developmental disabilities.

• Utilize your valuable lived experiences to help other families while working part-time in a strength based atmosphere.
• Opportunity to earn your Professional Family Peer Credential as well as additional opportunities for trainings in personal skill development.
• Purpose of the position - The Family Peer Advocate provides outreach, information, referrals, and advocacy services, and helps to coordinate family support services for families of children & youth.
• Under general supervision, the Family Peer Advocate functions as both advocate and deliverer of services.
• To foster effective parent-professional partnership and promote the practice of family-driven and youth-guided approaches.
• Overview of responsibilities
• Provide emotional support to families through phone and face to face meetings.
• Meet program specific billable service requirements (as appropriate).
• Meet documentation requirements in a timely manner per program guidelines.
• Provide family support as needed.
• Coach families on how to advocate for themselves.
• Facilitate / co-facilitate meetings with families in their home or at an agency location.
• Help families find ways to meet their basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, safety, and health.
• Assist families in identifying parenting skills which could be strengthened, and model these skills to the families
• Requirements :
• You MUST have personal 'lived-experience' as the parent or primary legal caregiver of a child / youth with an emotional, behavioral, social, and / or developmental disabilities .
• Must have reliable transportation, flexible schedule, home internet and home office space.
• Must demonstrate sensitivity and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds and practices of families and be committed to supporting and empowering advocacy.
• Experience navigating multiple child-serving systems.
• Must be eligible for Provisional Family Peer Advocate credential, and complete Professional Credential after 1000 hours of employment.

Must maintain and re-certify for credential.

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Ability to work some evenings and weekends.
• Must pass all criminal history background checks
• Bi-lingual in Spanish a plus.
• Salary and benefits associated with this position
• Job Type : Part-time - 20 hours per week. Hours are flexible and it varies but will typically be Monday-Friday between 9am - 9pm.

Occasional weekends may be needed.

• Salary : starting pay rate $15.76 per hour.
• Benefits : Mileage reimbursement; Paid time off

Submit your resume along with a cover letter explaining your personal lived experience as the parent / legal guardian caregiver of a child / youth with an emotional, behavioral, social, and / or developmental disability.

Please include the challenges and successes you encountered as well as the age of your child today.

Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

Last updated : 2024-04-24