Wage Range: $22.99 – $37.92/hr DOE
Shift: Wed-Sat, 10am - 8pm
Do you have lived experience navigating behavioral health challenges and want to make a difference for youth and families in crisis? Compass Health is hiring a Temporary Youth Support Partner / Peer Counselor to join our Child, Youth & Family Crisis Team (YGo – North) in Whatcom County.
Your story matters here—and it can become a powerful tool for recovery, empowerment, and transformation in others.
As a Peer Counselor / Youth Support Partner, you'll provide vital emotional support, mentorship, and advocacy to children, youth, and families experiencing behavioral health crises. Working closely with the broader YGo team, you’ll use your lived experience to help others stabilize, access services, and build skills for lasting recovery.
The Child, Youth & Family Crisis Team (YGo) is a mobile outreach team that provides community-based crisis response services in homes, schools, shelters, and more. We serve children, youth, and their caregivers across Whatcom County, delivering short-term, trauma-informed, culturally responsive care.
At Compass Health, we invest in our staff as deeply as we do in our clients. We offer a values-driven workplace where your experience is respected and your growth is supported.
That adds up to more than 45 paid days off your first year!
Note: Benefits are pro-rated for part-time employees.
Compass Health is the region’s largest private, non-profit provider of mental health and substance use treatment in Island, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish, and Whatcom counties. With over 110 years of service, we support individuals of all ages through a full continuum of care—from outpatient and residential programs to community crisis response.
Discover more at Compassh.org
If you're ready to use your story to help youth and families navigate life’s toughest moments, we want to hear from you. Join Compass Health and be part of a team that turns lived experience into lasting impact.
Compass Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants.
[For open positions, please visit: www.compasshealth.org/careers]
Compass Health’s mission is to champion the quest for well-being throughout our communities, and advance behavioral health in Snohomish, Skagit, Island, San Juan, and Whatcom counties. Compass Health was first established as Parkland Lutheran Children’s Home in 1901, caring for orphaned children in Western Washington. In 1953, we hired our first psychiatrist and began providing mental health care for the children who lived at our home. In 1963, Congress passed the Community Mental Health Act, creating community-based service models and allowing for the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. As a result, a variety of organizations were established in the northwest that ultimately became part of Compass Health, ensuring a full array of services for adults, children, and families, in the five counties we serve. In 2014, Compass Health merged with Whatcom Counseling and Psychiatric Clinic, expanding our service area to include Whatcom County. Today we serve over 18,000 people per year in our behavioral health programs.
For more than 110 years, Compass Health has been providing innovative mental health services to children and adults from all walks of life suffering from mental illness. Our programs have grown and changed to reflect the needs of the community, and this flexibility has led to us becoming the largest and one of the most well respected mental health agencies in Western Washington. We provide services to individuals in Island, San Juan, Skagit, and Snohomish Counties. Most individuals who receive our services are on Medicaid, and many are homeless. Clients and/or their families typically have incomes below 50% of area median income, with many below 30%.
To learn more about our history, services, and impact on community health, visit: http://www.compasshealth.org/about-us/
