Skills Trainer

Position Summary (Condensed to \~1000 characters) AmeriCorps members support youth in Sitka using a trauma-informed, culturally responsive approach to build resiliency through academic, mental-health, and life-skills support. Members collaborate with teachers, counselors, and administrators to provide mentoring, behavioral redirection, crisis response, and positive role-modeling for at-risk youth. Under the CMHP Program Manager, they deliver non-clinical skills training for ages 5-21, teaching social-emotional skills, healthy relationships, self-care, and conflict resolution. Members serve in schools lacking support or supplement existing skills-trainer capacity, offering consistent classroom assistance, behavioral interventions, and improved access to mental-health resources. Positioned in Sitka School District buildings, members remain at one school to build strong relationships and help YAS clients engage successfully in the school day.