$20.00 - $26.00 / hour
Position Title: Part-time Prevention Facilitator
Position Summary
The Part-Time Prevention Facilitator provides prevention education, youth development programming, and case management services for youth and families participating in the P.O.W.E.R. The facilitator delivers evidence-based prevention services designed to reduce substance use risk factors, strengthen protective factors, and promote healthy decision-making among youth.
Working collaboratively with schools, families, community partners, and program staff, the Prevention Facilitator engages with youth and their families through individual support, group facilitation, mentoring, referrals, and prevention-focused activities. This position requires flexibility to travel between multiple program sites and community locations while maintaining high standards of documentation and contractual compliance. The incumbent will understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with the functions of the position.
Children’s Aid Mission
To help children in poverty to succeed and thrive. We do this by providing comprehensive support to children and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods. Children’s Aid annually serves children and their families at over 40 sites in New York, as well as through three national program models. Children’s Aid is concentrating its efforts on creating cradle-through-college pathways in high-need neighborhoods, with a focus on children’s health, family stability, education, and social and emotional development.
Culture and Values
We put children, youth, and families first: We listen to and incorporate the voices of children, youth and families in all that we do.
We seek equity and transformation in our communities: We courageously work within and outside systems to create opportunities for children, youth and families.
We strive for excellence: We hold ourselves to the highest standards and are committed to continuous learning and improvement.
We are powered by collaboration: Our work is stronger when we trust, partner, and respect each other and the communities we serve.
We are driven by compassion: We lead with kindness, care, and empathy and believe in the endless potential of the people we serve and our team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide direct prevention services to youth and families in school, community, and center-based settings.
- Maintain a caseload of approximately 10 youth and families.
- Facilitate assigned evidence-based prevention programs (EBPs) with fidelity.
- Plan and facilitate prevention education groups, social-emotional learning activities, and life skills workshops.
- Provide individual mentoring, supportive counseling, crisis intervention, and appropriate referrals.
- Recruit, engage, and retain youth and families in prevention programming.
- Support youth identified as at risk through individualized prevention planning and follow-up.
- Accompany youth on educational trips, internships, college visits, and community-based activities as assigned.
- Assist with implementation of special events, prevention campaigns, health fairs, and environmental prevention strategies.
- Administer program assessments, including pre- and post-tests and participant surveys.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and complete documentation in ETO, WITNYS, and other required electronic databases.
- Maintain participant files and ensure compliance with OASAS, Children's Aid, and grant requirements.
- Participate in staff meetings, training, supervision, and professional development activities.
- Travel regularly to multiple program locations throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED required; Associate degree preferred.
- 1 to 2 years of experience working with youth, families, prevention programs, behavioral health, education, or community-based organizations.
- Experience facilitating groups with youth preferred.
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation preferred.
Key Competencies
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 Office.
It is the policy of Children's Aid to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and is dedicated to maintaining a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. Children's Aid will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or retaliation on any basis, including race, creed, color, national origin, ethnicity, alienage or citizenship status, gender/sex (including pregnancy), disability, religion, source of income, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, familial status, caregiver status, military status, marital or partnership status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking, predisposing genetic characteristics, arrest or conviction record, credit history, unemployment status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Children’s Aid is committed to complying with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Children’s Aid will conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of all allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or any violation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy in a confidential manner and will take appropriate corrective action, if and where warranted. Children’s Aid prohibits retaliation against employees who provide information about, complain about, or assist in the investigation of any complaint of discrimination or violation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy.
The incumbent is expected to work a schedule, whether in-person or hybrid, as determined by the department's needs to facilitate effective collaboration with the team. This flexibility is essential for maintaining seamless communication, fostering teamwork, and ensuring the smooth operation of the department's processes. The position's requirements are subject to periodic review and adjustment based on organizational needs and changes in work dynamics.
