WE ARE EXPANDING IN VANCOUVER/PORTLAND METRO AREA!

(Site Office Located Near Vancouver Mall)

SEEKING A PEER COUNSELOR WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE AS A YOUTH TO PROVIDE STRENGTH-BASED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEATLH SERVICES!

Catholic Community Services, Family Behavioral Health is looking for a Peer Counselor (Youth Partner) who wants to join our team of innovators who continually "push the envelope" and challenges traditional thinking in Behavioral Health.

WHO WE ARE:

We are a values-driven organization, providing family oriented mental health care for children, youth and families in their own home and community.  Our enthusiastic clinical teams provide whatever is needed to help children and youth remain safely in their own home with their family, restoring hope with promise, providing intense mental health services and supports, and helping to strengthen the family unity. With sites located in Western Washington including Vancouver/Portland Metro area, we offer comprehensive intensive, Wrap-around mental health services to a diverse population for youth and families. We employ nearly 600 caring and compassionate employees. 

*WHAT WE VALUE: * Compassion  Diversity  Strength-Based-Approach  Social-Justice & Our Staff!

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Starting Pay Range: $24.45 - $25.91 per hour

Additional Pay for:

• First Responder pay: $75.00 per pay period (2 times per month)
• Ability to earn additional pay: based on performance

Training and Supervision:

• Extensive training (i.e. WISe, De-Escalation, etc.)
• Daily supervision and support, as needed

*BENEFITS:  *

• 12 paid holidays; plus 1 personal holiday each year!
• 3 weeks' vacation per year
• 12 sick-days per year
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance (1 times annual salary)
• Retirement Plans: 403-B Employee Savings Plan and an Employer Contribution Pension *                                                                *

*WHAT WE VALUE:  *

We strive to help children and families live together safely and securely with hope and promise.  We serve as a catalyst for change when appropriate, challenging long-standing service traditions in community behavioral health.  We behave with Humility, Passion for our Mission, and Compassion and Respectful Interactions.   We value learning and offer alternatives and we stand strong to help child-serving systems understand our alternative paradigm while strengthening partnerships. We do not compromise our values.

*Peer Counselors (Youth Partners) *are individuals with personal history as a youth/child who has been a recipient of behavioral health, child welfare, complex medical coordination or juvenile justice services who use that personal experience in building support with families.  Successful applicants must have first person experience as a youth who received system services and prepared to disclose their personal experiences with youth, parents and others. 

Responsibilities

Youth Partners collaborate, provide support and help facilitate services for youth and their families receiving Family Behavioral Health Services.  Working as a member of a team, the Youth Partner helps a youth voice their own perspective and assure that other team members are able to understan