About The Link: Youth and Family Supports

For more than90 years, The Link has helped youth and families on a journey to healing, hope,and better lives. The organization is dedicated to walking alongside children,youth, and families as an inclusive community, strengthening and empowering asense of being, pride, and purpose. With over 15 diverse programs, The Link hasa community of caring staff that work together to provide support through a24-hour crisis line, youth resource centers, emergency shelters, mobile crisisteams, specialized foster care, healing homes, job readiness supports, andSkills4Life. With a robust foundation within the community and a focus onconnection, unity, and compassion, the organization provides a vital link foryouth and families in the province of Manitoba.

Position Summary

The Child & Youth Engagement Ally is a front-line, family-centredrole within Home Fire, a Family Preservation program designed through a FirstNations lens to strengthen families and help children remain safely at homerather than entering Child and Family Services care. This position providespractical, relational, culturally responsive, trauma-informed support tochildren, youth, and caregivers in home and community settings.

Working as part of the Home Fire team and reporting to the FamilyPreservation Manager, the Child & Youth Engagement Ally supports theday-to-day functioning of the program by implementing individualized child,youth, and family support plans; facilitating meaningful activities; promotingsafety and wellness; and documenting service delivery in accordance withorganizational policies, procedures, and confidentiality standards.

Reporting Relationships and Program Context





TheChild & Youth Engagement Ally reports to the Family Preservation Managerand works collaboratively with Home Fire team members, caregivers, children,youth, and relevant community supports. The position contributes to caseplanning, service coordination, information sharing, and team-baseddecision-making while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries andconfidentiality.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Child, Youth,and Family Support

- Provide in-home and community-based one-on-one care,supervision, engagement, and support to children and youth participating in theHome Fire program.
- Build safe, trusting, respectful, and supportiverelationships with children, youth, and caregivers using a strength-based,family-centred, and trauma-informed approach.
- Support children and youth who may be impacted bymental health challenges, trauma, family stress, conflict, poverty, addictions,abuse,or other circumstances that increase family vulnerability.
- Encourage child and youth participation in activitiesthat promote emotional regulation, self-confidence, healthy relationships,cultural connection, skill development, and positive identity.
- Provide practical support to caregivers and familiesin ways that promote family stability, wellness, autonomy, child safety, andthe achievement of family-defined goals.

Program and Case Plan Implementation





- Work collaboratively with Home Fire team members toimplement individual and family support plans developed through intake,assessment, and ongoing case planning processes.
- Deliver services that align with identified familygoals, program expectations, safety planning, and the needs and strengths ofeach child, youth, and caregiver.
- Support family routines and household functioningthrough practical assistance such as meal planning, grocery shopping, mealpreparation, light housekeeping, transportation planning, and other supports asappropriate.
- Communicate regularly and professionally withcaregivers and team members regarding scheduling, progress, emerging needs,risks, barriers, and planned activities.
- Participate in team meetings, case discussions,service planning, training sessions, and other program-related activities asrequired.

Safety, Crisis Response, and Professional Practice

- Providede-escalation, conflict resolution, emotional support, and basic first aidinterventions when required, within the scope of training and organizationalpolicy.
- Recognizeand respond to immediate safety concerns involving children, youth, caregivers,or the home environment, and follow internal reporting and escalationprocedures.
- Maintainprofessional boundaries, confidentiality, cultural humility, and ethicalconduct in all interactions with children, youth, families, colleagues, andcommunity partners.
- Ensureservices are provided in a manner that is respectful of First Nations, Métis,Inuit, and diverse cultural identities, family systems, lived experiences, andcommunity contexts.
- Completeassigned duties in alignment with organizational policies, program standards,documentation requirements, and applicable legislation.

📌 Child & Youth Engagement Ally - Home Fire Preservation Program (Winnipeg)
🏢 The Link: Youth and Family Supports
📍 Winnipeg