# Mental Health Advocate

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $28-$31/hr
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The Mental Health Advocate supports the mental health and resilience of survivors of trafficking through the WARN program, providing one-on-one peer support, referrals, and group-based services.

**Client Engagement & Support**

- Provide psychosocial support, including manualized interventions to clients.

- Develop individualized action plans with clearly defined goals and activities based on assessment findings.

- With support from supervisor, provide health navigation services through referrals for clients requiring higher levels of mental health care to culturally and linguistically appropriate providers.

- Support crisis assessment and intervention for program participants in collaboration with supervisor.

- Represent the WARN Mental Health program at external and internal outreach events.

**Program Facilitation**

- Facilitate psychosocial group programs, ensuring alignment with contract guidelines.

- Facilitate psychoeducation and skill-building group sessions using evidence-based approaches under supervision.

- Recruit and enroll participants for WARN programs.

- Plan and organize logistics for WARN programs, including scheduling, transportation, materials, and space coordination.

**Monitoring & Evaluation**

- Prepare and administer Participant Service Reports with guidance from supervisor.

- Document client interactions and program activities through detailed case notes and data entry.

- Assist in evaluating current services and identifying opportunities for new program offerings.

- Use IRC software to document client information and other program materials.

**Administrative & Team Support**

- Attend and actively participate in team meetings, staff meetings, and relevant IRC trainings and conference calls.

- Collaborate with supervisor and team members to ensure program quality and compliance.

- Perform other duties as assigned to support the success of WARN programming.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in relevant social services field (i.e., social work, human development, psychology) or equivalent professional and/or lived experience with social work, social service provision, psychosocial support, mental health, and community engagement.

- Lived experience as a refugee or immigrant is preferred. However, in lieu of lived experience, experience working with refugees and/or immigrants; cross-cultural or overseas experience accepted.

- Understanding of the systems that intersect with migration and resettlement.

- Understanding of social service system.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

- Fluency in English and Spanish or other relevant language(s).

- Strong intercultural communication skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

- Strong computer, keyboard, email, and general office skills.

- Current driver's license and valid insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- psychosocial support
- mental health
- crisis intervention
- case management
- group facilitation
- data entry
- client documentation
- Spanish

### Nice to have
- lived experience as a refugee or immigrant
- experience working with refugees and/or immigrants
- cross-cultural or overseas experience

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