JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
The Center for People With Disabilities announces the following job opening in its Boulder office:
OIB SKILLS TRAINER, GROUP FACILITATOR
Please see the job description (below) for specific job functions and requirements.
CPWD is an equal opportunity employer and provides resources, information and advocacy to empower persons with disabilities to overcome barriers to independence. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply for the above position.
Please send a cover letter and resume to:
Center for People With Disabilities
Attn: Carol
1675 Range Street
Boulder, CO 80301
You may fax your cover letter and resume to: (303) 442-0502
or e-mail to: carol@cpwd.org
Closing Date: Open until filled.
Job Description
OIB SKILLS TRAINER, GROUP FACILITATOR
Definition of a Center for Independent Living
Centers for Independent Living are consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private, nonprofit agencies that are designed and operated within local communities by individuals with disabilities. Centers require 51% of staff be persons with disabilities as well as 51% of Board of Directors be persons with disabilities. Centers provide an array of independent living services, including the core services of information and referral, independent living skills training, peer counseling, and individual and systems advocacy. (http://www.ed.gov/programs/cil/index.html).
Job Description
OIB SKILLS TRAINER, GROUP FACILITATOR
Reporting Responsibilities:
Reports to the Independent Living Core Services Manager
Position Status:
Part time, 18.75 per week
Basic Function:
Teach older individuals who are blind and/or visually impaired, family members and service providers about adaptive techniques, coping strategies, and eye health in Adams and Broomfield County.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Organize and implement educational and social programs for OIB consumer groups with the primary focus on independent living skills training.
- Provide services to consumers in a group format which requires strong group facilitation skills.
- Assist consumers in learning adaptive techniques, coping strategies and eye health to promote their independence in their home and community.
- Encourage peer support and social networking within each group.
- Teach self-advocacy skills and encourage and facilitate systems advocacy where appropriate.
- Conduct In-Service presentations to community service providers in accordance with OIB grant.
- Assist in planning and arranging of public seminars designed for consumers, family members and service providers.
- Coordinate all OIB services with the OIB Coordinator and participate as a team with the entire OIB staff.
- Maintain all records that are required by CPWD.
- Participate in CPWD staff meetings, program meetings and staff training activities, including 12 hours of continuing education per year.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- B.A. in Human Services or related field and/or two years experience working with people with vision loss.
- Experience in group facilitation and group dynamics.
- Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively with professionals and with the public, creating liaisons that result in outcomes.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products including Word and Excel
- Demonstrate ability to utilize e-mail and the Internet.
- Fluent in both English and Spanish.
- Familiar with Mexican American community
- Knowledge of Independent Living Philosophy.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Personal experience with a disability.
CPWD’s goal is an integrated community that equally welcomes all members.
The Center for People with Disabilities works so that people with disabilities in the Boulder area may live independently. We believe that there is nothing more disabling than pity.
People with disabilities are a powerful and significant part of our community, yet; as a group our social roles have been marginalized by bigotry, discrimination, poverty, isolation, dependency and pity. Americans with disabilities have not had access to transportation, housing and employment that other citizens have enjoyed; CPWD will change that.
The concept of Independent Living grew out of the Civil Rights Movement.
Independent Living not only means equal rights, but also equal responsibility for citizens. Independence implies managing success as well as coping with failure. Many services, programs, charities, organizations and agencies in our community encourage dependency of people with disabilities and remove the risk of failure. The cycle of dependency, paternalism and control removes the common choices of individuals. Ultimately, only by taking similar risks can people with disabilities equally participate in the community.
CPWD offers a new model for community integration.
Since 1977 CPWD has been the center of a network of resources, information and services to assist people with disabilities to conquer the barriers, the isolation and the dependency. We encourage you to work with us to build this new accessible welcoming community, learn from neighbors or teach fellow citizens that are struggling for their independence.
The Center for People with Disabilities
1675 Range Street, just off Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder and 615 North Main Street in Longmont Colorado.
The Center for People with Disabilities Mission:
To provides resources, information, and advocacy to assist people with
disabilities in overcoming barriers to independent living. CPWD is a private,
nonprofit 501(c)3 agency.
