Job Description :
OREGON YOUTH AUTHORITY
Youth Corrections Unit Coordinator - Skill Development Coordinator
GRANTS PASS ROGUE VALLEY YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility (RVYCF) is currently hiring multiple permanent, full-time Skill Development Coordinators (SDC) to provide proactive intervention and response to behaviorally challenging youth and / or youth requiring conflict resolution by applying and modeling Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS), Trauma Informed Care (TIC), and Positive Human Development (PHD) approaches.
This position will work with facility administration to enhance services to youth with the express intent to engage and treat challenging youth in their ideal placement without movement to a behavior management unit.
Your Role as SDC
Meet in consultation with living unit multidisciplinary teams to determine need, level of support and interventions required to maintain challenging / aggressive youth on the living unit.
Respond to youth who are struggling to maintain in school, treatment groups, and / or other designated activities, using Trauma Informed Care approaches and Collaborative Problem Solving to promote program engagement and prevent behavioral destabilization, and collaborate with staff to reintegrate the youth into the daily activities.
Monitor and assist with case management and / or intervention for youth identified as having active conflicts with other youth on campus, including youth with Sensitive Case Descriptors.
Promote awareness of youth’s Advanced Behavioral Directives, Collaborative Problem Solving Plans, interventions and trauma history / responses to improve the effectiveness of third party interventions and special programming considerations.
Collaborate with the QMHPs in completion of the Advanced Behavioral Directives for youth that receive regular SDC attention.
Current shifts available (may change based on business needs) :
First Shift : Bravo Unit - Wednesday to Saturday 12 : 00pm-10 : 30pm. Time off Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Second shift : Varied shift.