Peace Program Facilitator - Port Coquitlam, Canada - Tri-City Transitions Society

Description

Posting - 22/04/2024

Position:
PEACE Counsellor/ Facilitator permanent part time **- 14 hours/week

Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm and Thursdays from 11:30am to 7:00pm

PEACE Program (workshop & group facilitation are a requirement of this position).


Department:
Community Counselling Centre


Closing date -May 19, 2024

Department:
Programs - Youth, Children and Caregiver Counseling Centre


Grid Level:13P $37.18- $48.04.


Position Summary:


The PEACE Program workers provide psycho-educational community-based workshops, groups and 1-to
- l psycho-educational services and advocacy support to children and youth between the ages of 3 and 18 who have witnessed abuse, threats, or violence; these children/youth are the _primary _clients of the PEACE program; work undertaken with parent/guardians is designed to support a healthy relationship wherein the child/youth flourishes.

Further, to support the children and youth, the program encapsulates facilitated support, strategies, psycho-education workshops and experiential/ positive parenting skills for guardians of the children to strengthen attachment between child and parent and to develop strategies to support healthy connections and behaviors.

Facilitation /Counselling services provided are
not clinical therapy.


Reports to:
Program Manager


Key Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities Include: Primary focus is Group & Workshop Work, Individual Work, Agency work, and Community work designed to support skill building using techniques such as active listening, conflict resolution, basic group counseling, and basic psychoeducational group methods to help children understand and resolve identified problems, needs and risks &/or provide preventative education on domestic &/or sexual violence.
• Develop and implement workshops to strengthen families by breaking the cycle of abuse. Collaborates with cofacilitator(s) in conducting groups for children, youth &/or their caregivers.
• Uses a variety of techniques to assist the child to set and obtain developmentally appropriate goals during sessions, paying attention to individual child's unique needs and outcomes.
• Identify the support needs of the child while helping strengthen the child/caregiver relationship by modeling strategies and skills for greater connection and communication.
• Provides assessment services to gather relevant service information. Identifies and assesses the immediate emotional/behavioral issues that have led the client to seek or be referred to

services. Assesses the safety of clients and supports them in identifying and reducing safety risks.

• Develops and conducts psychoeducational support groups/workshops for children, youth & parents.
• Conducts individual support sessions with the child (&/or caregiver) using techniques such as active listening, conflict resolution, play therapy, and psychoeducation as needed.
• Provides parenting support through modeling skills and techniques for enhanced connection and greater communication.
• Outlines services provided by the program and/or agency. Provides information on and referral to other community service providers resources, and professionals for children &/or their caregivers as required.
• Maintains accurate records, statistics and reports to the manager as required and prepares reports as needed.
• Maintains current knowledge of issues and resources related to witnessing violence or abuse, and on prevention of violence and abuse to children. Provides interactive and engaging psychoeducational presentation and awareness activities about services and issues related to these issues.
• Participates in (or initiates) case conferenced, integrated case management with other professional as required. Engages in individual and group supervision sessions with superior and/or clinical supervisor, as required.
• Attends and proactively participates in staff meetings and other agency meetings as required.
• Follows current TCT Policies and Procedures, including best practice, and provides reports to the manager as needed. Reports any difficulties to the manager quickly.
• Promotes the program to the community through such things as: school collaborations, intraagency collaborations; community collaborations, distribution of community posters, brochures, announcements, and presentations.
• Participates in professional development activities in order to stay current in interactive facilitation techniques, as applied to the field of traumainformed counselling, treatment, and interventions for children of all ages.
• Participates in various processes necessary to carry out and achieve the society's mandate, such as, but not limited to demonstrated participation in a respectful workplace model of communication, timely collection, and analysis of data through WISH and performing continuous quality improvement tasks.
• Performs other agency related duties as directed by Program Manager

Qualifications, Education, Training and Exp