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Virtual Mental Health Support to Youth
ORGANIZATION: MINDRIGHT INC
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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71 people are interested
Do you want to advance access to mental health support? Join our fight to make trauma healing services accessible to all youth. We're a nonprofit on a mission to empower youth of color to heal from trauma from systemic oppression.
We provide personalized, proactive mental health coaching over text message to teens . As a coach, you become someone our students can count on. You implement our Empathize-Normalize-Stabilize coaching framework to help youth build positive coping skills for managing traumatic stress. We're not crisis response - we check in with youth proactively each day, reaching them on their good days and bad days. Your role is at the core of what we do.
Note: You do not need a licensure or clinical background to be a coach. We take coaches through 15 hours of our robust training program on evidence-based practices and our coaching model. Coaching is done on our secure web portal that coaches log on to from their own laptops/computers, not on coaches' own personal cell phones or from coaches' personal numbers. All coaches are supervised in real-time by licensed social workers or mental health professionals, who step in during crisis situations.
Hear from one of our students here: vimeo.com/230341010
Learn more and sign up here: http://getmindright.org/ways-to-help/
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About MINDRIGHT INC
Location:
625 Broad Street, Suite 240, Newark, NJ 07102, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to empower youth of color to heal from trauma from systemic oppression.
Description
We provide personalized, on-demand mental health coaching over text message to high school students impacted by trauma from poverty, violence, mass incarceration, and systemic oppression. Our coaches check in with youth daily - reaching them before, during, and after moments of crisis. Our coaches guide students in building positive coping skills rooted in evidence-based practices such as trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
" Everyone goes through stuff, and some people shut down like I would have. [MindRight] helps me get back up again. " - MindRight user, Newark, NJ
We have served 90 students since our launch in 2016 by partnering with schools and nonprofits in Washington, DC, Camden, NJ, Newark, NJ, and Philadelphia, PA. Our work is guided by clinical advisors at the Stanford Lucile Packard Hospital and the USC School of Social Work. Through our service, we're making mental health support accessible to the 20 million children living in poverty in the U.S.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
February 12, 2019
SKILLS
- Child Welfare
- Mentoring
- Child Advocacy
- Teaching / Instruction
- Youth Services
- Tutoring
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Minimum 2-hour shift once a week
- Experience working with underserved youth with a strengths-based lens