SPIFFY COALITION COORDINATOR
- Employer
- Collaborative for Educational Services
- Location
- Northampton, MA, US
- Salary
- Competitive
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- Job Category
- Administrator, Specialist / Coordinator
Job Details
Who We Are: SPIFFY (Strategic Planning Initiative for Families and Youth), housed in the department of Healthy Families and Communities, is a county-wide coalition whose mission is to "collaboratively engage in data-driven prevention efforts to reduce youth substance use and build healthy communities in Hampshire County." Our department staff are skilled in public health policy and practices related to substance use prevention, food security, mental health, and trauma informed communities.
We value: Relationship building, undoing systems of white dominance, accessibility, authenticity, supporting others to realize their agency to create change, and long-term, collaborative, multi-sectoral change processes that are rooted in community. Social Justice and Equity workis central to our mission, especially in these times. We understand that all forms of oppression are damaging. We engage in this work pro-actively and purposefully, with the intent of positive outcomes, and because we need to.
This is you:
- You enjoy working as part of a team, are a well organized, detail-oriented person who is able to prioritize multiple complex projects
- You're eager to engage with a wide range of people and groups--from school administrators and city government leaders to diverse youth and adults including people with low incomes and culturally diverse backgrounds
- You enjoy working with local municipalities on policy and systems change initiatives
- You like the challenge of planning and facilitating interactive and productive meetings
- You are willing to develop the skills you have, and learn new ones
- You have experience with and knowledge of public health, public policy, or community organizing
- In colllaboration with coalition partners, plan, implement and evaluate school and community-based projects related to youth substance use prevention, youth leadership, policy change, and community norms to build healthier communities.
- Develop and implement an equity-framed model for establishing local municipal prevention teams, including recruitment of municipal, school and community representation, training, policy development support, and assessment.
- Planning, facilitation and follow up of coalition meetings including on zoom and other on-line learning software.
- Utilitze the Strategic Prevention Framework to develop and implement strategies to prevent underage drinking and drug use in Hampshire County.
Company
We are a non-profit educational service agency, committed to reaching and educating learners of all ages, and experienced in working with educators to help students learn and succeed.
Students are at the heart of our work.
We are a community of innovative and effective professionals dedicated to improving education. We know that everyone is a learner from the day they are born, and we know how to create classrooms and other environments in which every learner can flourish. We know how to reach, inspire, support and educate children, youth and adults, and we help others to do the same.
Founded in 1974, we are governed by representatives from our member school districts in Hampshire and Franklin Counties. We partner with students, families, schools and districts, educators; and communities across Massachusetts and in the region to create and improve educational opportunities both in and out of the classroom and ensure that every child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
CES directs major initiatives in Early Childhood, Special Education, After School Programs, Professional Development, Educator Licensure, Technology in Education, Social Justice in Education, English Learner Education, and the education of vulnerable youth.
Our Mission
Our mission is to develop and foster educational excellence and opportunity for all learners through collaboration, and leadership.
- Website
- https://www.collaborative.org/
- Telephone
- 4135885925
- Location
-
97 Hawley St
Northampton
MA
01060
US
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