Guidance Counselor - Part Time (Personal Services)

Thinks, communicates and behaves as a cause-driven leader and role model for other staff and members when it comes to desired staff behaviors; promotes youth development, healthy living, and
social responsibility in all job-related functions.Interviews students to determine nature and severity of barriers in areas such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, crime victims and physical
impairments, and social-emotional concerns; documents all necessary information within 24 hours.Secures information such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to students behavior and reason for participation in Juvenile Justice programming.Conducts support groups, workshops, individual counseling for at-risk youth and their families while operating within a Trauma Informed framework in individual and group settings.Provides counseling, assessment, and intervention to youth based on trauma informed approach and refer students and families to community resources based upon individual needs assessment.Provide crisis intervention to participants experiencing emotional distress and follow up with parents/caregivers to assure youth receive necessary assistance.Assist with coordinating, collecting, and organizing program data for program reporting to funders and stakeholders.Ensures youth understand the procedures and expectations by clearly communicating and enforcing established rules in a positive manner and modeling socially accepted behavior.Observes students for signs of disruptive behavior such as violence, verbal outbursts, and episodes of destructiveness and diffuse situations using safe and effective tools and techniques.Adheres to policies related to boundaries with youth, participates in required abuse risk management training, reports suspicious and inappropriate behaviors, follows mandated abuse
reporting requirements, adheres to job-specific abuse risk management responsibilities.Ability to work effectively with diverse groups and viewpoints from all social and economic segments of the organization and community. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-
racism is expected from our staff.