Student Wellbeing Mentor
Part-Time • School-Based
Be the Trusted Adult Who Changes a Student's Day - and Maybe Their Life.
As a Student Wellbeing Mentor, you'll work directly with elementary and middle school students, helping them build confidence, resilience, emotional regulation, healthy relationships, problem-solving, and other social-emotional skills needed to thrive both inside and outside the classroom. If you're passionate about supporting young people and want a role where every day matters, we'd love to meet you.
Why You'll Love This Role
As a Student Wellbeing Mentor, you'll:
- Build meaningful relationships with students who benefit from additional support.
- Help children develop confidence, resilience, and healthy coping skills.
- Facilitate engaging social-emotional learning activities in individual and small-group settings.
- Collaborate with educators, school staff, and families to support student success.
- Work a consistent daytime schedule aligned with the school day.
- Join a mission-driven organization dedicated to youth mental wellness and suicide prevention.
- Experience the reward of helping students grow throughout the school year.
What You'll Do:
- Build positive mentoring relationships with elementary and middle school students.
- Facilitate individual and small-group mentoring using CHADS Coalition's Social Emotional Well-Being curriculum.
- Support students in developing emotional regulation, communication, problem-solving, relationship, and decision-making skills.
- Communicate regularly with teachers, school staff, and families.
- Monitor student progress and maintain required documentation and outcome data.
- Ensure services meet CHADS program and quality standards.
- Participate in agency meetings, supervision, and professional development.
- Represent CHADS Coalition professionally within partner schools.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Youth Development, Mental Health, or a related field.
- 1–3 years of experience working with elementary or middle school-aged children.
- Experience supporting social-emotional development, mentoring, or youth programming.
- Strong communication, organizational, and technology skills.
- Reliable transportation to assigned schools.
Preferred:
- Experience working in K–8 school settings.
- Experience facilitating small groups or mentoring programs.
- Knowledge of social-emotional learning, youth mental health, and suicide prevention.
- Experience working with diverse student populations.
This is a part-time, school-based position during the academic year. Mentoring sessions take place during the school day, generally between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Mentors work up to 32 hours per week and must be available for at least 15 hours per week.
Starting Salary: $21 - $23 per hour
About CHADS Coalition for Mental Health
CHADS Coalition is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing depression and suicide through education, school partnerships, counseling, postvention services, and community collaboration. We help young people build the skills, relationships, and support systems they need to thrive.
We believe prevention works. We believe relationships change lives. We believe every student deserves someone who believes in them.
CHADS is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CHADS is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status
OUR MISSION
CHADS SAVES YOUNG LIVES BY ADVANCING THE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE.
WHAT WE DO
CHADS is a 501(c)(3) organization offering Signs of Suicide®, Family Support, and Social Emotional Well-being programs to advance the awareness and prevention of depression and suicide. Aside from providing adolescents and young adults ages 25 and under with counseling services and educational programs, we also serve parents, educators, and community members with resources, presentations, and more to provide a holistic and proactive approach to mental illness and bullying.
VISION
To be the community leader in educating and supporting young people whose lives are impacted by suicidal thoughts, anxiety, and/or depression.
CORE VALUES
- Youth Focused - Support the mental health of youth and young adults with each decision we make.
- Passion - Keep our mission and vision central in our work. We show pride, enthusiasm and dedication in everything we do.
- Character - Value those we serve, our employees, volunteers, and collaborating organizations by demonstrating honesty, respect, integrity, trust, and supporting diversity. We are people of character.
- Hope - Bring hope to the clients and families we support. We are confident that their lives will improve and they will get through their mental health crisis.
- Collaboration - Encourage effective partnerships with youth and their families, community volunteers, school districts, businesses, other nonprofits, and the broader community.
- Stewardship - Emphasize efficiency, quality, and the optimal use of resources in all aspects of our operation, ensuring that we remain responsible guardians of the trust that our community places in us.
- Accountability - Meet our commitments and take responsibility for our performance.
- Excellence - Expect the best of co-workers and ourselves. Strive for positive outcomes, continuous quality improvement, and fact-based decision-making. We are committed to providing only high quality programs and services.