Job Title

Contracted Facilitator for one or more of the following programs:

• Processing Grief in Community: An 8-week group for navigating your grief journey

• Supported Seedlings: A Live Oak music wellness program for preschoolers and their caregivers

• Regulation & Resilience: A Live Oak classroom wellness program

Job Requirements

• All programs: 

  • Certified Peer Support Specialist or comparable training in trauma-informed facilitation and direct support

  • Fluency in English

• Processing Grief in Community:

  • Lived experience of a significant death-related loss and willingness to share

  • Transportation to and from the group meeting site (Antelope Valley location TBD)

• Supported Seedlings:

  • Musical experience in any setting; must be comfortable singing and/or playing an instrument in public

  • Trauma-informed child development education preferred

  • Professional (preferred) or personal experience working with young children

  • Transportation to and from All for Kids Family Resource Center–Palmdale 

  • Ability to pass a background check to work with children

• Regulation & Resilience:

  • Trauma-informed child development education preferred

  • Professional (preferred) or personal experience working with young children

  • Transportation to and from contracted school sites (Antelope Valley locations TBD) 

  • Ability to pass a background check to work with children

Essential Functions

• Ability to collaborate and work well with team members and clients from a variety of backgrounds (all programs)

• Communicate needs for accommodation (all programs)

• Ability to co-facilitate a 90-minute peer-led grief support group, including sharing personal experiences with grief (Processing Grief in Community)

• Ability to co-facilitate a one-hour music wellness workshop for children ages 3-5 and their caregivers (Supported Seedlings)

• Ability to co-facilitate a 30-minute to 45-minute mental wellness workshop for any grade TK-12 (Regulation & Resilience)

• Availability to train with team and prepare individually for each monthly workshop (paid) (Supported Seedlings, Regulation & Resilience)

• Availability to train with team and prepare individually for each weekly support group meeting (Processing Grief in Community)

Additional Functions

Fluency in Spanish and willingness to interpret to and from English is a bonus

Schedule and Pay Rate

• Processing Grief in Community

  • Two hours paid of virtual team training

  • Weekly in-person meetings, 8 weeks per cohort, 90 minutes each plus setup and clean-up

  • Approximately 3 paid hours per week of preparation and facilitation

• Supported Seedlings

  • Two in-person training sessions (three hours each) prior to program launch

  • Ten workshops facilitated monthly, one hour each plus setup and clean-up

  • Approximately three paid hours per month of preparation and facilitation

• Regulation & Resilience

  • Two hours of virtual team training

  • Currently funded for Proof of Concept sessions; eventual contracts of ten workshops, facilitated monthly, for any grade level TK-12, 30- to 45-minutes each plus setup and clean-up

  • Approximately two paid hours per month (August-May) of preparation and facilitation for each grade level (determined by contracts with local schools)

• All programs

  • $20-25/hour depending on training and experience

  • Additional $2/hour when English/Spanish interpretation is utilized

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Program Descriptions

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Processing Grief in Community: An 8-week group for navigating your grief journey

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Grief is a very isolating experience, and we don’t typically know everything we need to cope with the death of someone important to us. 

Using the research and experience of J. William Worden (Worden’s Tasks), David Kessler (The six elements we need in grief), and Margaret Stroebe & Henk Schut (Dual Process Model), you will join together with others who have also experienced deep loss as you all work toward healing. But please know that “healed” does not mean “as good as new.” Healing on your grief journey is like your body healing from a major trauma: the goal is to progress from open wound to scar. Some scars are barely noticeable, but it’s possible that this one will be more like a scar that has healed around where a limb used to be. You will likely not be who you were while your person was alive, but by learning to use healthy processing and coping strategies, you can live a fulfilling life in their absence, remembering your person with more love than pain.

Contracted Facilitators will receive training from Monica Olsen, CPSS, to prepare for this program and will be provided with lesson plans that include full sample scripts. Each session will have a minimum of two trained co-facilitators. The first cohort will be scheduled for a weekday evening.

Supported Seedlings: A Live Oak music wellness program for preschoolers and their caregivers

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Live Oak Mental Wellness Project is launching a new primary prevention program in partnership with All for Kids and Stepping Tones called Supported Seedlings: A Live Oak music wellness program for preschoolers and their caregivers. Designed by Board Certified Music Therapist Laura Fonseca and Certified Peer Support Specialist Monica Olsen, this program is comprised of 10 workshops to be facilitated monthly at All for Kids Family Resource Center–Palmdale. 

Each stand-alone workshop incorporates co-regulation and relationship-based approaches–including child-to-caregiver, peer-to-peer, and child-to-other-grownups–to support healthy neurodevelopment. Workshop topics include Music-Supported Neurodevelopment, Building Emotional Resiliency through Music, Developing Empathy through Music, and more!

Contracted Facilitators will receive training from Laura Fonseca, MT-BC, and Monica Olsen, CPSS, to prepare for this program and will be provided with lesson plans that include full sample scripts and suggested recorded music that may be replaced with live music. Each workshop will take place on Tuesday mornings and have a minimum of two trained co-facilitators.

Regulation & Resilience: A Live Oak classroom wellness program

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Live Oak Mental Wellness Project is launching a new primary prevention program funded with a grant from Northrop Grumman. Designed by licensed clinicians from Alba Wellness Group and Certified Peer Specialist Monica Olsen, this program contains 10 workshops to be facilitated monthly in any grade from TK-12.

Each stand-alone workshop teaches fundamentals of mental health as they relate to school life. Workshop topics include Enhancing Psychological Safety, Emotional Regulation, Challenging Cognitive Distortions, and more!

Contracted Facilitators will receive training from Monica Olsen, CPSS, to prepare for this program and will be provided with lesson plans that include full sample scripts. Each workshop will take place during the school day (specific days and times TBD) and have a minimum of two trained co-facilitators.