Youth Mentor





The Opportunity

The Youth Mentor will work for the Empowerment Through Wellness to Prevent Gun Violence Initiative, which delivers youth-focused gun violence prevention and community violence intervention programming.

The mentor will be providing mentoring services to youth charged with gun-related offenses. Among other things, this will include assisting participants with developing positive socialization and decision making skills.



Responsibilities


+ Conduct weekly face to face mentoring sessions with participants.

+ Identify high risk behaviors in youth and provide mentoring services to intervene in continued high risk activity.

+ Participate in case conference meetings as scheduled and work collaboratively with case manager, therapeutic counselor, court staff and community resources working with participant.

+ Respond to participant emergency notifications
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