Domestic Violence Children's Advocate - YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish - Seattle, WA

TITLE: Domestic Violence Children’s Advocate

REPORTS TO : Director of Counseling and Education

LOCATION: 3301 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201

DESCRIPTION:
YWCA Children’s Domestic Violence Program provides advocacy based counseling for children and non-violent parents during a series of ten weekly, in-home sessions, engages the community in understanding domestic violence, and collaborates with the YWCA Counseling Department to provide on-going support to survivors.

This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work, as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy, are required job skills and core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs initial interview with parent, completes intake procedures, safety screening, identifies barriers and strengths, family goals, individual children’s issues and schedules in-home sessions.


• Deliver 10 week curriculum that addresses safety planning, responsibility issues, conflict resolution skills to children using play, art, videos and games to help children express themselves, identify feelings and strengthen resiliency skills.


• Work with non-violent parents to enhance positive parenting skills.


• Complete pre and post assessment tasks.


• Document progress and outcome information.


• Provide statistical data and program reports as needed.


• Co-facilitate on-going therapeutic support group for survivors of domestic violence.


• Provide community outreach to obtain appropriate referrals.


• Participate in weekly counseling case consult meetings and monthly staff meetings.


• Implement all work by incorporating the YWCA’s Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in all institutions and systems. Recognize that solving racism is the root of how we understand and heal from these –isms.


• Show demonstrated ability to interact with people of different cultures.


• Continue search for understanding of racial, gender and class equity.


• Adhere to all Volunteer Services protocol relative to volunteer usage, recognition and monitoring. Work alongside volunteers, where applicable. Understand where internalized oppressions (superiority and inferiority) play a role in volunteer and client interaction and know ways to address these oppressions from a solutions-based perspective.


• Assure that volunteers are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race, ethnic background, gender or socioeconomic background. Understand how racism has played a role in defining what respect and dignity is and use racial equity and multiracial perspectives when teaming with volunteers.


• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & CORE COMPETENCIES

• Extensive knowledge of domestic violence.


• Extensive experience working or volunteering with children.


• Commitment to cultural competency.


• Knowledge of child development.


• Ability and willingness to work independently and as part of a team and to make sound judgments without on-site supervision.


• Knowledge of community resources.


• Desire to travel daily to homes of program participants within Snohomish County.


• Reliable transportation.


• Bilingual in Spanish preferred


• Experience working with communities of color


• Demonstrated understanding of the intersection of racism and poverty


• Core Competencies Expected: Fostering Diversity, Race & Social Justice Advocacy, Crisis Management, Flexibility, Planning & Organizing, Relationship Building, Coaching, Collaboration, Stress Management, Continuous Learning, and Reliability

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Customer Service : We treat our customers with culturally competent courtesy and respect, and react with urgency and sensitivity to their important concerns.


• Social Justice: Collectively and individually, we work to eliminate the effects of racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and other oppressions and help our clients achieve equitable outcomes, outcomes that prioritize those with multiple barriers, in the areas we serve.


• Teamwork: We value individual excellence in the achievement of organizational goals and work effectively as a team for the benefit of the YWCA and our stakeholders. We acknowledge that cultural competence is required when evaluating effective work and teamwork and that the voice of our staff of color, immigrant and refugee staff, LGBTQ staff and other marginalized staff comes through as positive, effective and relational in a variety of ways, and that internalized superiority or inferiority can play a role in how a staff member interacts on teams. We work to understand barriers that staff may be facing and support staff that are facing multiple barriers.


• Communication: We communicate openly, honestly and accurately with our internal and external stakeholders. We listen respectfully, solicit feedback and are open to the suggestions and solutions of others. We understand that internalized oppressions play a role in how and what we communicate and what we gatekeep. We work to be accountable gatekeepers, acknowledge our superiority and inferiority while communicating and create a flat structure where power is not front and center in the communication that we engage in.


• Integrity: We are ethical and trustworthy in our business practices and interactions with each other.


• Accountability: We are accountable to each other and our communities, and we seek to continuously improve the quality of our services. We are transparent in sharing information with stakeholders and the public.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THIS JOB:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this job Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. In performing this job, the employee:

• Frequently sits for extended periods while performing desktop activities


• Frequently stands and walks in performing duties in the office


• Repetitively uses hands and wrists, fingering, handling, grasping, and reaching in using telephones, computers, fax machines and other office equipment and supplies


• Frequently bends in obtaining files in drawers


• Occasionally pushes and pulls up to ten pounds

*Continuously over 80% time, frequently 20-80% time, and occasionally under 20% time

HOURS, RATE, & BENEFITS

• Full time, 40 hours total per week.


• Rate $16.35 per hour


• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Classification: Non-exempt.


• Excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, flex accounts and generous retirement, vacation and sick leave plans.


• At the time of hire, employees may choose to voluntarily enroll in the Fidelity 403b Plan. Typically after two years of employment, employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund.

TO APPLY: Please email a resume, including where you found this position and a cover letter that includes three challenges that survivors of domestic violence face and how you would address these challenges.

or mail your application to:
M Dillon, Senior Regional Director, YWCA
3301 Broadway
Everett, WA 98201
(425) 258-2766, ext.225

CLOSING DATE: Friday, June 17

YWCA Seattle|King|Snohomish is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $16.35 /hour