Youth Services Specialist

Ensure staff compliance with the facility and DYS policies, procedures, and operational practices. Provide information and instruction in one-to-one crisis intervention counseling for the facility and to youth to avert crisis, including suicide management (documentation and review). Conduct and document safety, fire, and health inspections. Review all logs, shift reports, daily observations, rosters, court paperwork for quality documentation for DYS standards and facility procedures. Ensure all room checks, medication administration, recreation, room restrictions, and discipline programs are maintained as required by the facility standards and procedures. Participate in facility debriefings of critical incidents when required. Conduct shift briefings. Facilitates debrief meetings following physical management incidents and ensures medical staff notification.

Colorado, a western U.S. state, has a diverse landscape of arid desert, river canyons and snow-covered Rocky Mountains, which are partly protected by Rocky Mountain National Park. Elsewhere, Mesa Verde National Park features Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings. Perched a mile above sea level, Denver, Colorado’s capital and largest city, features a vibrant downtown area.