Student Assistance Prevention Specialist

at  Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany

Are you Ready to Launch Your Career?
Join us in our mission as a Student Assistance Prevention Specialist at Catholic Charities of Fulton & Montgomery.
Imagine yourself as part of an organization with a profound commitment to making a positive impact. When you choose Catholic Charities, you step into a world of endless opportunities, where your efforts collectively contribute to a brighter community. We consider it a privilege to make a meaningful difference, and we love what we do.

As the Student Assistance Prevention Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in individuals’ lives, making a significant impact through:

• Responsible for all of the prevention and intervention activities at designated sites as well as operating the intervention part of the program. This includes providing any substance abuse and gambling prevention through evidence-based curriculum to youth and/ or families in schools or community locations.
• Provide problem gambling prevention and substance abuse prevention presentations to various community groups.
• Actively participates in various appropriate community organizations, and other district wide responsibilities that may present themselves as appropriate.
• Assists students in evaluation social-emotional behavior and planning for positive change and assists students with educational planning and evaluation of progress toward educational goals.
• Assists in helping students in the school to make desirable personal adjustments with self and others.
• Collaborate with other agencies or community groups or coalitions to utilize prevention services approaches including: education, environmental strategies, positive alternatives, and informational dissemination to youth and adults to assist in addressing community-wide prevention need

Student Assistance Prevention Specialist Minimum Salary: $22.00
Student Assistance Prevention Specialist Maximum Salary: $23.00
Student Assistance Prevention Specialist Schedule: 7:30 - 3:00 or 8:00 - 3:30 depending on day and location

• Responsible for all of the prevention and intervention activities at designated sites as well as operating the intervention part of the program. This includes providing any substance abuse and gambling prevention through evidence-based curriculum to youth and/ or families in schools or community locations.
• Provide problem gambling prevention and substance abuse prevention presentations to various community groups.
• Actively participates in various appropriate community organizations, and other district wide responsibilities that may present themselves as appropriate.
• Assists students in evaluation social-emotional behavior and planning for positive change and assists students with educational planning and evaluation of progress toward educational goals.
• Assists in helping students in the school to make desirable personal adjustments with self and others.
• Collaborate with other agencies or community groups or coalitions to utilize prevention services approaches including: education, environmental strategies, positive alternatives, and informational dissemination to youth and adults to assist in addressing community-wide prevention nee