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Youth Transitional Home Worker - Casual
Posted on Oct. 24, 2025
- Greater Sudbury, Canada
- 0 - 0 USD (yearly)
- Part Time
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QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum three-year Child and Youth Worker Diploma.
- Direct experience with at-risk populations for a minimum of 2 years.
- Experience in harm reduction, safety planning, and crisis intervention.
- Experience in working within an Anishinabe Child and Family Well-Being Services is preferred.
- The ability to speak the Anishinaabe language is a definite asset and / or willingness for continual learning.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, & ABILITIES:
- Sound knowledge of the Anishinabek culture and the principal issues affecting the mental health of Anishinabek children, families, and communities in the Districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin.
- Promote and apply Anishinabek Culture, values, traditions, and teachings in the work of the Service teams where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain respectful, cooperative working relationships with Anishinabek children, families, communities, and service workers to promote an integrated, seamless delivery of service.
- Applying an attitude and practice model that promotes flexibility, diversity, and engagement with marginalized populations.
- Knowledge and understanding of flexible, diverse, traditional, and non- traditional support, advocacy, and intervention processes.
- Comprehension of at-risk youth-related issues, such as mental health and addictions, gender orientation/identity, peer/social culture, violence, teen pregnancy, human trafficking, drug trafficking, etc.
- Awareness of micro and macro community social systems, structures, and issues.
- Familiarity of community assets and asset mapping procedures.
- Facilitate, coordinate, and promote group programming and workshops on a variety of social issues and topics.
- Familiarity of case management systems, reporting procedures and responsibilities and the ability to work within those systems.
- Managing crisis and adverse situations with staff, youth, and families.
- Knowledge and understanding of health and safety practices related to outreach work and Universal Care precautions.
- Understand the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Given the traditional practices of the Anishinabek, from time-to-time exposure to wood smoke and the burning of sacred medicines, including tobacco, sweet grass, sage, or cedar, may occur within the work setting.
- Candidates must live within service area.
Applicants are encouraged to visit our website at www.kgcfs.org/employment to review the job description.
KGCFS offers competitive wages.
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