Peer Mentor | Part-Time 24hrs/week

When you join The Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to creating better, brighter futures for kids.

For over 200 years, The Home for Little Wanderers has helped build stable lives and hopeful tomorrows for vulnerable children and their families. Our 25 community-based and residential programs serve thousands of at-risk youths from birth to age 26. Many of these children have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or a disrupted family life. As the oldest child welfare agency in America, we provide them with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships, and a secure path toward a better, brighter future.

To learn more about the incredible impact our employees have on the lives of children and families, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXedSArtYbg

About the Program

The transition to adulthood can be difficult to navigate, especially for youth in their late teens or early 20s who have spent most of their lives in state care. The Home recognizes the unique issues that our youth “aging out” of the system face – including homelessness, unemployment, incarceration, early pregnancy and substance abuse—and offers resources and support designed to prepare them for their future as confident, self-sufficient adults in our community.

The schedule for this position is 9-5 on Saturdays and Sundays, with the additional 8 hours/week being flexible.

How You Will Be Making a Difference

• Collaborate to provide individual support, through ongoing routine contact to youth
• Provide in-person mentoring services to youth both within their home communities and onsite
• Participate as needed in quarterly treatment reviews and other meetings, as requested by the youth and/or program team
• Facilitate peer groups with the goal of sharing personal strengths and interests that align with those of the program youth population
• Partner with and advocate for youth through Restorative Practices
• Assist program team in collecting and sharing information about community resources for our youth population
• Partner with, engage, and retain resources identified to support program youth
• Meet weekly for Supervision
• Complete required documentation

Requirements

• Personal experience living with significant mental health issues
• Willingness to attend trainings prior to beginning job functions
• Frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs, and traveling to client home communities
• Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer with the ability to learn new software applications

Skills & Specifications

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Bilingual preferred
• Completion of Core GIFT Training preferred

Valuing Diversity

We are committed to excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion, while simultaneously creating a culture that supports those values. We believe the differences we bring enhance our ability to provide exceptional service and care to diverse children, families, and communities. Moreover, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging align with our values and our mission to help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.

What The Home Can Offer You

In addition to the chance to make a lasting impact on the lives of the youth we serve, The Home for Little Wanderers offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Generous time off including up to 15 days per year for new full-time employees, plus 11 holidays, and 5 sick days
• Health and Dental Insurance that is effective immediately upon hire
• Extensive training to new staff
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $2,400 per fiscal year
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Employer paid Long-term and Short-term Disability Insurance, plus Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• And more!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)