Community Youth Worker

7 months ago

Vancouver, Canada The City of Vancouver Full time

**Requisition ID**:41251

**Organization**

RayCam Cooperative Centre is located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are a centre for old and young, a place for recreation and social activity and the site of multiple licensed childcare programs. Our mission is to encourage and support community members to utilize their strengths and and to provide access to recreational, educational, social and cultural programs for community members, especially children and youth, in a safe and accepting environment.

**Main Purpose and Function**

The RayCam Community Youth Worker (CYW) focuses on Youth Development (direct work with youth and their families) and Community Outreach/Development (working with the community, community programs and services on youth issues and interests). The RayCam CYW carries considerable responsibility to ensure that youth programs run effectively, safely and successfully. In addition, organizationally, the RayCam CYW has a supervisory and administrative function. The CYW exercises independent judgement on coordination and implementation of approved youth activities and the provision of guidance and resource referral services. Difficult or unusual problems are discussed with a supervisor.

**Specific Duties & Responsibilities**
- Aligns youth programs with the needs and interests of youth. Identifies and reports on the socio-recreation, socio-educational, support programs/strategies for youth living in the Downtown Eastside
- Facilitates development and implementation of programs to meet emerging youth needs and interests. Aligns program development, cultural needs and the RayCam and Park Board Strategic Plans
- Ensures basic needs of youth are met by one-to-one, outreach, advocacy, problem and crisis intervention, food, shelter, safety, and conflict resolution with individual youth and often their family.
- Supports individual youth to be integrated in the community centre, community programs and school. Works with community programs, services and schools to transform programs to support the development of individual youth and to support family members where appropriate.
- Provides focused support to particular youth in community centre programs, encouraging participation in order to build relationships between youth. Assists in social development and improve group dynamics. Identify systemic barriers to participation and work with colleagues to address these concerns.
- Supports programs that develop health, fitness, sports, arts, culture, social skills and relationships
- Places youth in volunteer positions in the Centre, community and schools. Support youth as they build their individual capacity as leaders. Create opportunities for youth leadership of programs. Support youth to recommend and initiate program changes and to engage with the Centre and Park Board in community youth development policy
- Focuses on systemic planning and strategies that connect youth to the community centre and the broader community.
- Works cooperatively with community agencies and services to identify marginalized/vulnerable/unconnected youth; includes youth in community centre programs and advocate for services and the transformation of services on their behalf.
- Meets youth where they are at in the community and connect and build relationships with vulnerable youth in the community and connect them back to their community centre and their community. Works collaboratively with community agencies, schools and services to examine systemic youth issues that need to be addressed by individual agencies or by the collective energy of the youth services hubs. Advocates and plans systemically to ensure all Vancouver youth have their basic needs met. Advocacy may require challenging existing practices and procedures of agencies, schools or government.
- Builds partnerships with service providers and Indigenous service providers
- Initiates, participates and provides leadership in the youth service hubs. Finds strategic ways to connect youth to decision-making infrastructures that affect their lives.
- Works with the RayCam Association, Park Board, schools and community agencies in support of youth as community builders and active community members Trains, mentors, schedules and supervises volunteers and Program Assistants to ensure quality and safe programming. Ensures direction, support, leadership and adequate staffing for youth programs and spaces.
- Regularly reports on current youth programs, services and issues. Works with colleagues in the community centre, on the YWAT (Youth Worker Action Team) and in project teams to ensure effective, innovative, responsive community youth development.
- Other duties/responsibilities as assigned.

**Minimum Qualification Requirements**

**Education and Experience**:

- Post-secondary graduation from a recognized program in child and youth care, social services or a

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