Youth Frontier Mentors

2 weeks ago


Fairfield, Australia CORE Community Services Full time

**Introduction**:
CORE Community Services Ltd. is a not for profit organisation serving South West Sydney for over 40 years. We provide a wide range of services, activities and programs across 5 Services - Children's Services, Youth Services, Multicultural Communities, Aged and Disability Care (ADC) and Community Engagement.. Our mission is to provide tailored diverse client centric services and opportunities that support and empower vulnerable communities to thrive, resulting in the best outcomes for all individuals.

**Description**:
Purpose of the role

Youth Frontiers is a youth mentoring program for female children and young people, aged 10-17 years in contact with the criminal justice and child protection systems in the Fairfield LGA. The program aims to engage young people’s strengths by building skills and experience through mentoring support. This program supports children and young women who have had some contact with the justice system and or their family have been involved in the justice system and they need support.

The Youth Frontier’s program delivers quality mentoring including supporting children to meet their case plan goals, connections with peers, support with education, support with attending appointments or connecting with other service providers, development of life skills, building confidence and resilience and connections with family, community and culture. The Mentors will develop and maintain quality and meaningful relationships with mentees for up to 12 months. This relationship will involve weekly one-on-one or group mentoring sessions with mentees, along with engaging mentees in group activities organised and/or run by the Program Coordinators.

**Applicants are invited to**:

- Provide their resume and

**Key responsibilities for the Youth Frontier Mentors are**:

- Develop and maintain quality and meaningful relationships with mentees.
- Support mentees in developing healthy relationships within their community.
- Support mentees in accessing services within their community.
- Promote in mentees a sense of choice and control (self-determination) in their lives.
- Promote in mentees resilience and the ability to tackle major life challenges.
- Discourage mentees from engaging in risky behaviour.
- Serve as a positive role model, modelling desirable attributes such as resilience, self-determination, high self-esteem and motivation.
- Support mentees in developing practical and personal life skills in line with their goals.
- Establish and maintain appropriate boundaries in line with policies and procedures.
- Assess safety and well-being of mentees during engagement and report all concerns to the Program Coordinator.
- Working with coordinator to support program needs.
- Monitor and record client progress (e.g. client participation, client intake survey, case notes).

**Skills and Experiences**:
Applicants need to be 18 years or above, have a current working with children’s check and can commit to working with these vulnerable children for a minimum of six months. Applicant must have proof of COVID 19 vaccinations including booster and will be required to have a police check.

Application closes on 1 January 2024.



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