Youth Worker-Transformational Relationship Division

Position:  Youth Worker-Transformational Relationship Division         

Location:  Chelsea, MA

 

Organizational Overview:

Roca is an innovative, nationally recognized organization working with disengaged and disenfranchised youth in Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston, Massachusetts.  Utilizing a model of “transformational relationships,� Roca intensively serves 600 young people, provides a less intensive level of support to 150 + young adults and 250 parents, as well as provides outreach and education to a minimum of 20,000 additional people each year.  Roca’s vision is for young people to thrive and lead change in their communities.  Modeling the organizational values of Belonging, Generosity, Competence, and Independence, Roca strives to create spaces in which change can happen.  Roca generates hope by working with young people in various ways: Transformational Relationships, relentless outreach, peacemaking circles, and providing opportunities for life skills, education and employment.  Roca has an exciting engaged institution strategy leverage resources for young people and impact informal and formal policy and practice. 

 

Serving and supporting high-risk young people is at the core of Roca, and every employee is fully committed to creating opportunities for young in an effort to help them lead happy and healthy lives.  Roca’s organizational culture is described as extremely hard-working, collaborative, and responsive. 

                                                                        

Model of Transformational Relationships:

Using the innovative model of transformational relationships, Roca works with youth and young adults to create positive relationships and connections that can transform lives and create change.  Roca believes change occurs in the following stages: pre-contemplation, contemplation, planning, action, sustaining, and relapse.  Using this structure, Roca’s programs engage young people and others in a process of change that enables them to increase positive knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors over time.  Roca’s model of transformational relationships is outlined as a two-phase developmental sequence, consisting of the following steps: Phase I: Choosing In, Time on Task, Promoting the Stages of Change Phase II: Moving to Mutuality, Forming Relationships with other Adults, Promoting the Stages of Change as related to education, employment, and life skills

 

Organizational Growth Strategy:

Roca is implementing a strategic plan to lead significant growth in 3 areas:  deepening program quality, driving toward outcomes, and growing transitional employment opportunities.  In terms of its programming, Roca recognizes that the core of its work with young people consists in building and maintaining transformational relationships.  Accordingly, all programming must revolve around this model of transformational relationships.  Furthermore, Roca must ensure that all young people in transformational relationships have flexible access to the multiple programs and services that will serve their needs and build on their strengths and interests.  This focus on the multiple dimensions of transformational relationships requires Roca to build a new organizational structure and to develop and implement new operational policies and procedures.

 

Position Overview:

Under the supervision of the Program Coordinator and the TR Director, this position will ensure the creation and implementation of quality transformational relationships with high risk youth and young adults and participate in the creation and delivery of engagement, life skills, pre-vocational, and competency building programming. 

 

The Youth Worker will provide leadership in the Transformational Relationship Division, through the following responsibilities: 

  Understand, practice and promote the vision, mission, values, methods, and models of Roca. Creative outreach to young people to involve them in the Roca Programs; could be up to three months of creative outreach and could do creative outreach with 20 or more people at any given time; Maintain transformational relationships with 25-30 multicultural youth and young adults Maintain Efforts To Outcomes Tracking Database and implement all appropriate evaluation tools as instructed Develop and implement programming for high risk young people; Work with other staff to ensure that these young people access healthcare and teen pregnancy prevention information. Provide on-going street work and outreach with those young people on caseload who are on active and creative outreach lists; Assist with street work for intervention purposes; Facilitate classes, activities, workshops, special events as assigned and/or created to be done with a level of excellence to the Roca, Inc. standard, including: outreach, follow-up, planning, preparation, etc.; Assist with coverage and programming as appropriate and needed; Work with community partners including DSS, Chelsea Public Schools, Juvenile Probation, DYS, Chelsea Court and others as appropriate to address, support and resolve issues with young people. Assist with emergencies and crisis intervention; Other tasks as assigned

  Qualifications:  The successful candidate for this position will have the following qualifications:  BA preferred/Equivalent community experience accepted Bilingual skills desirable (English-Spanish) Understanding and experience working with street involved high risk young people. Minimum of three years experience working with young people Experience in conflict resolution, violence prevention, etc. Strong written and oral communication skills. Excellent at organizing, managing and completing multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously with thoroughness, accuracy, timeliness and good humor. Initiative, sound judgment and ability to work independently with minimal supervision is expected.

Requirements for the position: Travel around the Harbor Area Computer Literate Working with diverse cultures Valid MA Driver’s License and current Driving Record

 

In addition, the ideal candidate for this position will be a trustworthy decision-maker.  He/she will have a sense of humor, feel passionate and committed to direct work with high risk youth, and demonstrate interest in coaching and supporting coworkers.  Bilingual (English/Spanish) is preferred but not required.

 

To apply for the position please submit letter of interest and resume to:  Ana_Vega@rocainc.com ; or via fax at 617-889-2145 or via regular mail Roca, Inc. 101 Park St. Chelsea, MA  02150

 

 

Roca is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds.