Career Opportunity

Youth Educator (LEO Coordinator)

Office Location: Friendship, WI (Adams County)

Post Date: 09/19/25

Status: Permanent, Full-time (40 hours per week)

Wage: $27.58

Apply: Complete our online application and include your resume and cover letter. 


We are recruiting for a Youth Program Educator, called a LEO/BFI Coordinator, to join our team. This is full-time position that provides services in Adams County, Wisconsin.

Our Learn and Empower Oneself (LEO) is operated through the Brighter Futures Initiative (BFI), Substance Use Prevention program in Adams County. LEO is based upon the concepts and tools from the Life Ecology Organization. The program provides alternatives to substance use and risk behaviors for youth and emerging adults ages 12 through age 20. The coordinator will provide services throughout Adams County in partnership with one other Coordinators in the county. 

Our LEO program is currently embedded in some of the classrooms in Adams County. 

The coordinator teaches the Learn & Empower Oneself curriculum, which is classroom course that teaches youth how and why the brain responds the way it does and provides concrete tools to increase resiliency through cooling down the lower (or primitive) brain and activating higher-brain functioning. The tools learned in the classroom provide both education and alternative strategies to addictive behaviors. 

In addition, the coordinator will provide individual intensive mentorship to youth demonstrating significant behaviors that indicate a higher probability of substance use, to help them apply the LEO concepts and tools into their every-day life. This includes providing tailored support and guidance, focusing on the youth's current challenges. Youth participating in intensive mentorship meet weekly, learning how to apply LEO tools in their daily lives, while adopting healthy coping mechanisms and hobbies.

The following are the essential job functions for the LEO Coordinator. 

Primary Functions

  • Teach the LEO curriculum in middle and high school classroom settings to youth 12 – 19, generally in 1-hour increments over a six-to-eight-week period, though curriculum is adaptable to fit within a school classroom schedule.
  • Provide one-on-one support to youth by implementing the LEO techniques and strategies. 
  • Provide holistic and comprehensive intensive mentoring services to youth, including goal setting, progress monitoring, advocacy and referrals. Complete required entries in the SAP-SIS outcomes data system.
  • Maintain accurate and detailed accounts of all youth in the program using internal tracking systems.
  • Develop relationships with alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs for continued relationship building and referral information. 
  • Develop partnerships with school districts, community resources and agencies for program growth, community building and support of program participants. 
  • Manage publicity and recruitment through social media accounts, outreach presentations and publications.
  • Organize program and outreach supply inventory, replenishing as needed.
  • Communicate with Survey Unit, to ensure accurate participant rosters and survey completion.

Additional Functions

  • Promote substance use prevention through additional partnerships, participating in related coalitions and community groups as requested.
  • Promote skills training and provide reinforcement to promote substance use prevention through resiliency skills during community events and trainings.
  • Participate in ongoing professional development to maintain current knowledge of brain science and substance use trends and outcomes.
  • Apply trauma-informed knowledge to mentorship practices.
  • Any other duties as may be assigned.

Education: Required: Bachelor Degree in Behavioral Science, Human Services, or related field.

Experience: No direct experience is required, but experience with youth or presentations is preferred.

Transportation: Required - This position will require travel to and from off-campus sites throughout Adams County. Individual may use personal vehicle or other means of reliable transportation

Essential Skills:

  • Outstanding public speaking, presentation and teaching skills.
  • Have knowledge of trauma-informed care and practices. 
  • Utilize a strength-based approach to work with youth and emerging adults.
  • Ability to motivate others towards achieving their personal goals.
  • Ability to work independently with strong sense of focus, task-oriented, nonjudgmental, open-minded qualities, and a clear sense of boundaries.
  • Ability to work in a variety of settings with culturally-diverse families and communities with the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate, mentoring participants within the context of their identity, family, community, tribe, history, culture, and traditions. 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to establish rapport with program participants.
  • A strong sense of and respect for confidentiality involving both participant and fellow employees.
  • Proficient with MS Office products.
  • Required - Basic everyday living skills, the ability to understand and follow directions (agency manuals, etc.), and reading and writing (for reports) is necessary.


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