Community Engagement Coordinator - Suicide Prevention Program

Description

Strength Through Diversity

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Roles & Responsibilities:

Full-time Community Engagement Coordinator to serve on the Brothers=Connect project, an upstream suicide prevention program for Black male teens ages 13-19 in Youth Basketball Leagues (i.e., YMCA), Boys & Girls Clubs, and other community-based organizations across New York City. This 2- to 4-year position is funded from a grant from the Dayton Foundation.

The Community Engagement Coordinator needs strong community engagement experience to facilitate culturally tailored programs to reduce suicidal behavioral among Black male youth. Experience conducting human subjects research is preferred, but not required. The candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, comfort discussing mental health topics including suicide, and demonstrated experience with youth, group facilitation, and passion for supporting mental health. This candidate should have demonstrated experience in group engagement and collaboration, with a particular focus on working with BIPOC boys in sports leagues and other community-based settings like barbershops, Boys & Girls Clubs,. Additionally, strong verbal and written communication skills are required.

As a part of the Brothers=Connect team, members enjoy the following:

• Working in a stimulating environment
• Being a part of a high-performing team and receiving support from training mentors
• Be part of addressing major public and mental health problems in the US and promote positive youth development
• Contributing to leading edge research with opportunities to contribute to publications and the development of new programs

Responsibilities

The Community Engagement Coordinator will be responsible for the following:

• Assist in the development / refinement of community mental health referral guides
• Will at times require overnight travel to towns in New York State
• Participate in writing grants, academic papers, and other program materials, as needed
• Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Provide research and administrative support to team as needed
• Work with Black teens and their families from varying socio-economic backgrounds
• Capacity to deliver 2-hour Brothers=Connect training on a Saturday/Sunday/evenings
• Supervise Research Assistants / Volunteers to assist with community engagement activities
• Organize meetings of the Community Coalition (Advisory Board)
• Draft and submit Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol submissions
• Support the identification of key community stakeholders
• Participate in Connect empowerment sessions & Adult session as facilitator
• Serve as co-trainer for the adapted Brothers=Connect intervention
• Evaluate and recommend training methods and prevention messaging activities
• Work with Dr. Hankerson to provide safety assessments with the Stanley-Brown Safety Plan as needed
• Utilize Qualtrics or other web-based survey platforms to administer research surveys
• Develop communication tools for informing Community-Based Organization (CBO) leadership and other community members about new training opportunities.
• Assist with subject recruitment and payment, data entry / analysis, and manuscript preparation
• Be proficient in Zoom, Google Docs/Forms/Slides, and additional platforms such as Canva, Mentimeter, Filmora, etc.
• Assist in training new trainers and preparing small group leaders to lead discussions
• Advise churches and participants through program requirements, developing relationships with key personnel. Support participants in working with messaging and prevention activities.
• Develop community engagement and recruitment protocols for entire team to use designed to expand reach and program impact
• Lead the development of the Community Coalition
• Lead and co-facilitate high energy, engaging trainings for youth and adults, with trainings occurring in person and online
• Help to organize mental health forums at CBOs
• Attending weekend (Saturday or Sunday) Youth Basketball League games at least once every 2 months
• Coordinate all engagement for NYC community-based organizations
• Effectively engage and recruit Youth Basketball Leagues, Boys & Girls Clubs, and other community-based organizations to participate in Brothers=Connect
• Submit receipts and consultation pay order forms for subjects' participation

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and group engagement skills
• Bachelors degree required, or equivalent education and work experience
• Experience working with Black teens and adults, group facilitation
• Experience in the fields of education, social work, community engagement, mental health, psychology, or a related field
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and have expertise in engaging community agencies that serve Black boys, with preference given to candidates who have expertise working with the YMCA and/or Boys & Girls clubs
• Experience working with youth sports leagues, with preference for basketball teams, Boys & Girls Clubs, and other community-based agencies focused on Black male youth
• 1 year of experience in project coordination preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Awareness of how structural factors (e.g., racism) contribute to limited access to mental health care among Black Americans
• Experience facilitating or leading groups
• Experience working with Black teens and adults
• Experience with attending services and/or programs at predominantly Black churches

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $58661 - $67500 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.