Youth Navigator

Youth Navigator engages high-risk youth and assists youth in discovering available opportunities and attachments that will lead towards increased stability and reduced risk. Navigation will be youth-led and Navigator informed. That is, with the help of the Navigator, high-risk youth will determine what services are pursued, and on what timeline.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish contact with high-risk youth through multiple avenues/locations.
• Connect with youth during both regular and irregular hours.
• Use narratives as part of a less-traditional intake process.
• Assist youth in identifying, leveraging and navigating local services and resources and mediating healthy peer/care-giver relationships using a strength-based approach.
• Work with school district staff police community agencies and rural communities to provide transition supports to youth.
• Establish a youth-led planning council of high-risk youth to help identify service gaps, areas of opportunity, and areas of success (Youth Input Lunches/Dinners).
• Act as a driving force for community change by assisting with Community Mapping and identifying and informing of service gaps.
• Act as a referral point within a supportive network dedicated to high-risk youth.
• Catalyze the development of a Safe Space initiative to address AWOL behavior.
• Use email, internet and Microsoft Office for clinical and administrative tasks.
• Recognize own professional boundaries and demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with other community social service agencies in Williams Lake and British Columbia.
• Promote relationships of trust and co-operation with clients, respect cultural values and beliefs, maintain professional boundaries.

Wage: $28.07/hour

Application email: ea@ccchild.org