Youth Peer Support Worker – 2025-125-01

JOB POSTING 2025-125-01

• INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
• Foundry Abbotsford
• Youth Peer Support Worker
• Wage: $24.53 per hour, dependent on education.
• Part Time: 18 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Temporary until November 2025
• Location: Abbotsford

  Offer Mentoring and Emotional Support to Youth and their Families
  Join the team at Archway
  Come Help Us Help People

  Location:  Abbotsford

  On Site

Job Summary

The Youth Peer Support (YPS) Worker participates as a member of the Foundry centre team. YPS workers have their own lived experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges and have accessed services through their own journey. YPS workers use this personal experience to support youth and young adults in service navigation, improving their health and wellness, and connecting with Foundry and/or community resources. The YPS worker offers peer-based mentoring and emotional support and works collaboratively with youth, their families, and members of the care team. Using their own diverse, personal lived experiences, YPS workers demonstrate the ability to support neurodiverse, gender and sexually diverse, Indigenous, racialized, rural and remote, youth and young adults with varying abilities and disabilities.  This position assists with the delivery of walk-in services and outreach activities, offering support both on a one-on-one basis and in a group setting. The YPS worker acts as an advocate and role model, helping young people and their families recognize that with hope, recovery is possible.

Your Role:

Archway’s Youth Peer Support Worker with the Foundry contributes by:

• Playing a key role in ensuring that the centre offers a safe, welcoming, inclusive and youth-friendly environment.
• Establishing purposeful relationships with youth and supporting their engagement and participation in centre services and meeting youth in an outreach capacity.
• Providing support, guidance and mentorship for youth and their families and assisting in sharing information on resources and lived experience system navigation.
• Accompanying youth to appointments in the community.
• Developing, leading or co-facilitating group services to promote skill development and mental health and substance use recovery and relapse prevention.
• Coordinating, participating in, or assisting with planning recreation and social activities.
• Providing support to aid with reducing youth’s distress, improving or maintaining functioning and enabling independence and active participation.

This position is a great fit for someone who is able to establish rapport and maintain therapeutic relationships with diverse youth and their families.

Our Offer

• Wage: $24.53 per hour.
• A part-time position at 18 hours per week, availability Mondays to Fridays, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
• One temporary position until November 2025 (possibility of extension).

Benefits include:

• • Three weeks’ pro-rated vacation.
  • A great benefits plan including extended health, and dental, you choose your plan.
  • Employee and Family Assistance Program that includes online access to wellness resources.
  • Great in-house training opportunities.
  • Rewarding work in a positive environment.
  • Work/Life balance.

Getting an Interview–you will be considered if you have:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Lived experience of mental illness and/or substance use and willing to self identify and share experience of recovery.
• Included a cover letter with your resume, demonstrating how your lived experience will help you in this position to be able to connect with youth.

The Job Requires you to have::

• Willingness to complete Foundry’s recognized Youth Peer Support Training Program.
• High degree of self awareness and capacity to apply appropriate boundaries and maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to be a self-starter with a positive attitude.
• Ability to advocate for self and others.
• Knowledge of systemic issues and risk factors facing minority groups including 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous youth and young adults.
• Ability to interact with people in challenging situations and discernment in knowing when to de-escalate.
• Class 7 (Novice) or Class 5 BC Driver’s License and access to a vehicle is considered an asset.
• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check is a condition of employment.