Cultural Mentor/Case Aid
CROSSOVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
The Cultural Mentor or Mentoring Case Management Aid will work directly with families or mentees and help them understand the American culture and basic legal family environment, provide support to access public information, navigate social services, know their urban environment and identify further needs of the mentees for a referral to Case Manager.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- To prepare a mentoring plan description of the expectations of both the mentor and the mentees ;
- To work in collaboration with the case manager to help facilitate the processing of cases and follow-up;
- To educate family members on the basics of the American culture;
- To initiate parents on proper parenthood and children on how they should relate to their parents;
- To help the families read and answer messages on their mobile phones or in their regular emails from Job and Family Services and other public sources;
- To help families get skills on how to use specific home appliances;
- To help families access essential services such as health care and shopping centers
- To identify, document uncommon problems and make a referral to appropriate levels for case management and do a follow-up on the same;
- To prepare a concise progressive report to the Program Manager
About CROSSOVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Location:
PO Box 531, Dayton, OH 45401, US
Mission Statement
VISION: Cross Over Community Development is a gateway to self-reliance, confidence, and dignity for immigrants, refugees, and underserved communities. Mission: Cross Over Community Development is a resource center for immigrants and underserved community that provide educational services and employment opportunities in the greater Dayton area.
Description
Cross Over Community Development is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting immigrants and refugees in re-establishing high-quality lives for themselves and fully participating in the life of their new community.
Background
Cross Over was named after the idea that African immigrants and refugees cross from areas of absolute poverty and come to the US with the hope of accessing opportunities, create wealth and escape poverty. Unfortunately, they find upon arrival here barriers after barriers mostly linked to their lack of functional skills, cultural awareness, appropriate education, transferable job skills as well as social connections and they get stuck with the first survival job they get upon arrival here, unable to move to the next level, many become underemployed and end up assimilating in the underclass which prevents them from realizing their dream of creating money, prosperity, and success.
It is against this backdrop that volunteers who have been involved with new immigrants’ issues formed a nonprofit called "Cross Over Community Development" intended to empower them with employment skills and job creations so that they can improve their quality of life and self-sufficiency. Our outreach programs to break the generational poverty will target both immigrants and underserved communities.