Who We Are

Pacific Clinics is California's largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services and supports. Our team of more than 2,000 employees speak 22 languages and are dedicated to offering hope and unlocking the full potential of individuals and families through culturally responsive, trauma-informed, research-based services for individuals and families from birth to older adults.

Who We Serve

Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adult, and older adults. We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education, and early childhood education programs to Medi-CAL eligible individuals and families throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Stockton, Tulare, and Ventura Counties.

What We Offer

• Salary Range $17.37 to $20.85/Hour. Actual offer will be determined by the candidate's creditable years of experience in conjunction with internal equity considerations and based on the organization's current compensation practices.
• We offer Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more!
• Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve.

The Position: Youth Partner I

Job Summary:

Works with the vision, mission, and philosophy of the agency. Provides support to youth receiving services to ensure that the youth's voice is heard throughout all phases of treatment Uses personal life experience to establish credibility and infuse hope for a better future. Demonstrates unconditional acceptance and models life skills. The Youth Partner participates in program and community meetings to maximize the youth's voice and involvement throughout the service delivery process.

Essential Duties

• Provides support for youth and families in achieving treatment goals.
• Strategically utilizes their own personal lived experience to demonstrate that recovery and resilience are possible for youth served by the program.
• Engages youth and families in ways that demonstrate understanding of the youth and family perspective and creates a positive connection and support through the service delivery experience.
• Connects with youth to encourage and support their engagement in their own treatment planning, as well as their participation in school and/or community activities.
• Models, coaches, and teaches independent living and self-advocacy skills.
• Supports youth connection and engagement with community resources and natural supports.
• Assists in the organization and facilitation of youth activities.
• Facilitates groups for youth, including the Youth Advisory Board.
• Provides the youth perspective in agency meetings, committees, and project implementation workgroups to increase a team's awareness and understanding.
• Employee is required to meet applicable productivity and documentation requirements.

OTHER DUTIES

• Driving to appointments with clients and families, or other key contacts.
• Physical interactions with children of variable ages, such as, but not limited to, games, sports, and other activities.

Education Requirements

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

Experience Requirements

• Able to articulate their own perspective as a former youth who has experienced complex needs and has received their own services from the mental health, child welfare, or juvenile probation systems. This ability is typically acquired from having personally received intensive mental health, child welfare, or probation services (e.g., special education, psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, juvenile probation, or foster care placement) required. Work or caregiver experience will not be considered in lieu of the required lived personal experience requirement.
• Demonstrated leadership experience required.
• Basic computer word processing skills required.
• Diplomacy in resolving conflicts and integrating divergent perspectives required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in facilitating youth groups or leading youth activities.

Other Specific Requirements

• Must pass Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Child Abuse Index Check (CAIC) background clearance, if applicable.
• Valid California Driver's License with two years of experience driving and clean driving record may be required.

Work Environment/Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with arms and hands; and taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

In addition, this position requires standing, sitting, walking, climbing, and kneeling.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

We will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with ordinance 184652 Sec. 189.04 (a) and San Francisco Police Code, Article 49. Section 4905.