Advocate Counselor, Learning to Work Program (LTW) - Lower East Side Prep

Advocate Counselor The Learning to Work (LTW) for Transfer Schools Program will provide services to students, ages 15-21 that are over-aged for grade, under-credited, and have spent at least one year in another high school to earn a high school diploma and gain valuable vocational and life skills supports. Using the Primary Person Model, each student will have a Young Adult Career Advisor who will guide students towards removing barriers toward graduation, engage students in college preparatory activities, provide supportive services, and increase self-direction and self-sufficiency through meaningful career exploration experiences, including subsidized internship placements for 20% of the student population. The Advocate Counselor reports to the Supervisor II and is located at 145 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002. The Advocate Counselor is expected, under general supervision, to serve as young adult students' primary motivator; and assist young adult students in eliminating barriers to education/employment. Responsibilities include maintaining professional relationships with students and student confidentiality, conducting initial intake and assessment of students and/or students' families' situations and needs, creating and maintaining student files, assisting students in attaining their goals by identifying and locating community resources for students and by making referrals to appropriate services both within and outside CAMBA, tracking student attendance daily, reaching out to absent students daily, following-up with students and with referral organizations regarding student contact and progress with referral organization, counseling students regularly either through meetings in CAMBA offices, by telephone and/or home visits, working with students to break through barriers to student goals and to assist students in advocating for themselves, recommending and implementing strategies to persuade students to participate more fully in this process, following-up at least two times with graduates for one year after graduation, reaching out and marketing the program to the community in order to recruit students, entering all required data into CAMBA's online internal database system Enginuity, creating narrative case notes regarding student progress at each point of contact using Enginuity, keeping an Excel monthly report spreadsheet of all services given, providing all required information for weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports, acting as student liaison/student advocate with outside organizations regarding such matters as education, healthcare, housing, legal issues, etc., facilitating workshops (i.e - Life Skills, College Explorations, Work Exploration), preparing marketing materials for the program, prescreening students over the telephone/face-to-face for eligibility, assisting families in obtaining health services coverage when eligible, assisting students in completing applications for benefits and entitlements, assisting students in completing all CAMBA intake applications and forms, reviewing all documentation establishing student's eligibility for program and make file copies. Tasks may be modified, expanded and/or assigned over a period of time.