Position: Show Me Healthy Relationships Program Specialist

DEPARTMENT: Relationship Education

Starting Salary: $38,000 - $44,000 annually (Starting salary depends on education and experience)

RESPONSIBILITIES: Do you have a strong passion for promoting healthy relationships? A Program Specialist for Show Me Healthy Relationships recruits, enrolls, and supports participants through 8 weeks of relationship education classes plus a follow up period. This work includes training facilitation, case management, and documentation. The most successful candidate has a strong knowledge of community resources, excellent public speaking and presentation skills, savvy computer abilities, and a deep understanding of emotional intelligence. Essential responsibilities include recruitment at community events, conducting intake assessments, partnering to create personalized action plans, facilitating training classes, maintaining contact with participants, making appropriate referrals for services, documentation of contacts and attendance, and engaging in meetings with other professionals. This work requires some evening hours on a weekly basis and occasional weekend hours..

The Show Me Healthy Relationships Education Program, SMHR, is a joint partnership with the University of Missouri - Columbia and Cornerstones of Care. Through case management and psycho-educational group facilitation, the Program Specialist will engage participants in content from Within My Reach , a curriculum designed to enhance healthy relationships. The Program Specialist will assist with building community connections and collaborations, conduct initial intake of potential participants, record participant information and enroll in services via appropriate databases, assist participants in the development and progress of case plans, schedule and facilitate training sessions, and maintain connection with participants for a minimum of 12 months. The Program Specialist will also engage as a member of the SMHR team including participation in program and agency team meetings and work collaboratively through open communication and teamwork with other team members and stakeholders to ensure participant success.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Family Studies or other similar degree required. Master's Degree preferred.
• 1-3 years of case management experience preferred and/or experience in group facilitation preferred.
• Knowledge of safety planning including domestic violence, suicidal ideation, and conflict.
• Knowledge of effects and impact of poverty and other chronic stressors.
• Must be available to maintain flexible working schedule as needed to meet the diverse needs of the target population including evening and/or weekend hours.
• Must be available to travel to counties in the Northwestern Missouri service area.

BENEFITS: Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes 9 Paid Holidays, Paid Time Away (unlimited Time Away for Salaried positions) or Paid Time Off (accrued PTO for all benefit eligible team members) for hourly positions. All team members who work 30 hours or more are eligible for medical(prescription)/dental/vision; prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability(employer paid); term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D); health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K with employer match); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership deductions; Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit the Job openings page of our website at and in the left-hand margin use the benefits dropdown to download the current guide.

CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS:

• Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose.
• Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills.
• Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.
• Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management.
• Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
• Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships.
• Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.