My Name is Erin Chapman-Smith. I am the Director of Over-18 Housing Services at YouthCare. For more than 40 years, YouthCare has been a leader in providing effective services to Seattle’s homeless youth ages 12-24. One of the areas in which YouthCare supports this work is through transitional living programs. The objective of these transitional living programs is to provide housing and supports to clients while they access services to work towards overall stability, goal planning, minimizing barriers, and to engage in learning activities.
YouthCare has some exciting opportunity for students in our agency as on-call Youth Counselors. These positions are great for students (both undergraduate and graduate) as they are flexible and schedules can be based around class times as On-Calls get to choose the schedules they work based on the open shifts posted to our programs. There is opportunity to work as few as 1 shift a month or as many as 5 per week. On-call youth counselors support program as a direct service staff engaging with Youth and Young Adults. Some of the activates these positions complete are:
If you would be so kind as to let any students who may be interested in gaining practical experience in the field know about this position they can apply at the link below:
https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=YOUTHCARE&cws=39&rid=639 or CLICK HERE
To learn more about YouthCare students can go to YouthCare.org. If students do decide to apply please have the put University of Washington Student in the referral box so can highlight their application to all hiring managers.
We appreciate your time, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Erin Chapman-Smith, 206-661-6217, Erin.Smith@YouthCare.org