ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

RiseBoro Community Partnership is seeking to hire a Peer Leader to serve as a Credible Messenger with The Brooklyn W.A.Y. Coalition. The Brooklyn W.A.Y. (Wellness Advocacy with Youth) works within Brownsville, East New York, Bed Stuy, Bushwick and East Flatbush to center youth and young adults, aged 16-24, in media creation, policy advocacy and program development. Our coalition seeks to disrupt the institutional, structural, and systemic confinement pathways that place the youth and young adults we serve at disproportionate risk for incarceration and/ or substance use at the individual, community and systems level. This position is responsible for facilitating identified Evidence Based Program curricula, cocreating information awareness activities and media messaging, positive alternative activities, and engage in outreach for the coalition and DFC program to reduce risk factors, and strengthen protective factors.



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