Child and Youth Program Assistant Jobs
Child and Youth Program Assistant jobs are open across military installations, community centers, and after-school programs, with specializations in early childhood education, recreational programming, and behavioral support, from entry-level to senior program roles. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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- San Antonio, Texas
- Bloomfield, New Jersey
- Austin, Texas
- Brooks City Base, Texas
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- El Paso, Texas
- Fort Bliss, Texas
- Fort Hood, Texas
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- Killeen, Texas
- Kingsville, Texas
- Lackland AFB, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- Randolph AFB, Texas
- San Angelo, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- Austin, Texas
- Wichita Falls, Texas
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Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC) - TEXASAt KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.
Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.
Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.
Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.
Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC)
Contingent upon Contract Award and successful completion of program required background check.
Position Summary
The Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC) provides non-medical counseling, consultation, prevention, education, and outreach services to military-connected children, parents, caregivers, and staff within a Child Development Center (CDC) located on a military installation. The CYBC-MFLC promotes healthy social-emotional development, resilience, and adjustment by helping children and families successfully navigate the unique challenges associated with military life. The CYBC-MFLC delivers services through a visible, embedded, relationship-based model within the Child Development Center, engaging children, parents, caregivers, and staff in daily activities and natural settings to promote resilience and early identification of concerns.
Using a short-term, solution-focused, strengths-based approach, the CYBC-MFLC supports children in developing age-appropriate coping skills, emotional regulation, social skills, and resilience. Services are preventive in nature and delivered in accordance with Department of War (DoW) Military and Family Life Counseling Program requirements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Child and Youth Counseling Services
- Provide confidential, non-medical, short-term counseling and support services to military children in a Child Development Center setting.
- Deliver services through both structured counseling interactions and informal engagement opportunities within classrooms, activity areas, and other approved childcare settings to increase accessibility and early intervention.
- Utilize developmentally appropriate techniques, including:
- Play-based interventions
- Social-emotional skill building
- Behavioral coaching
- Resilience and coping-skills development
- Classroom observations and support
- Assist children in addressing concerns related to:
- Separation from parents due to deployment, TDY, training, or operational requirements
- Adjustment to relocation and school transitions
- Friendship and peer relationship challenges
- Behavioral concerns and emotional regulation
- Anxiety, stress, and life changes
- Grief and loss
- Family transitions and reintegration
- Deployment-related stress
- Parent absence due to military duties
- Frequent relocation and transition challenges
- Adjustment to military lifestyle demands
- Building resilience during military family transition
- Facilitate structured group activities, classroom-based interventions, and resiliency programming that strengthen social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, coping abilities, and positive peer interactions
Consultation and Collaboration
- Serve as a consultant to CDC leadership, caregivers, teachers, and parents regarding child development and social-emotional well-being.
- Provide coaching, consultation, and resilience-focused support to caregivers and CDC personnel to address military-family stressors and support healthy child development
- Partner with parents and caregivers to reinforce age-appropriate coping and behavioral strategies in home and childcare settings.
- Educate parents and caregivers regarding age-appropriate emotional and behavioral responses to deployment, separation, relocation, reintegration, and other military life transitions.
- Coordinate with installation support agencies, military family programs, school liaisons, and community resources, as appropriate.
Outreach and Prevention
- Deliver DoW approved psychoeducational presentations, workshops, and training on topics such as:
- Child development
- Positive parenting practices
- Emotional regulation
- Building resilience in military children
- Managing transitions and change
- Promote behavioral awareness, emotional regulation, coping strategies, resilience building, and problem-solving skills through developmentally appropriate educational activities and discussions
- Participate in installation outreach events that promote child and family readiness and awareness of CYBC-MFLC services.
- Support prevention-focused initiatives that strengthen protective factors for military-connected children and families.
Documentation and Compliance
- Maintain required CYBC-MFLC program documentation and activity reporting in accordance with MFLC program requirements.
- Adhere to DoW policies, ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and contract performance expectations.
- Complete all required training, credentialing, and installation access requirements.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Master’s or doctoral degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field.
Licensure
Current, unrestricted independent clinical licensure in a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia, such as:
- LCSW
- LPC/LCPC/LPCC
- LMFT
- Licensed Psychologist
Experience
- Experience providing counseling or behavioral health services to children and adolescents.
- Experience working in school, childcare, pediatric, family services, or youth-development settings preferred.
- Knowledge of child development principles and evidence-based behavioral interventions.
- Knowledge of military culture and military family systems preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong child-focused counseling and behavioral intervention skills.
- Knowledge of developmental milestones and social-emotional learning practices.
- Ability to engage young children using age-appropriate therapeutic techniques.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with parents, CDC staff, and military stakeholders.
- Strong presentation and consultation skills.
- Ability to work independently within a decentralized service-delivery model.
- Commitment to confidentiality, ethical practice, and child safety.
Mission Impact
The CYBC-MFLC serves as a trusted resource within the Child Development Center, helping military-connected children develop resilience, strengthen social-emotional skills, successfully navigate military life transitions, and maintain healthy developmental progress. Through consultation, prevention, and early intervention services, the CYBC-MFLC contributes to family readiness and the overall well-being of the military community.
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
- San Antonio, Texas
- Bloomfield, New Jersey
- Austin, Texas
- Brooks City Base, Texas
- Corpus Christi, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- El Paso, Texas
- Fort Bliss, Texas
- Fort Hood, Texas
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- Killeen, Texas
- Kingsville, Texas
- Lackland AFB, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- Randolph AFB, Texas
- San Angelo, Texas
- Del Rio, Texas
- Austin, Texas
- Wichita Falls, Texas
Title:
Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC) - TEXASAt KBR, we deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 85 countries and operations in over 28 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.
Trinzic is the future independent company to be created through the planned spin-off of KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business, expected in January 2027. Our people work at the frontier of what is possible, delivering solutions in challenging environments and advancing some of the world's highest-priority national security and space missions.
Backed by decades of mission success, deep expertise, and trusted partnerships, Trinzic will launch as a global organization with more than 18,000 employees supporting customers around the world. Join us at a defining moment and help shape the future of a company built to tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact.
Candidates who join KBR's Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.
Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC)
Contingent upon Contract Award and successful completion of program required background check.
Position Summary
The Child and Youth Behavioral Military and Family Life Counselor (CYBC-MFLC) provides non-medical counseling, consultation, prevention, education, and outreach services to military-connected children, parents, caregivers, and staff within a Child Development Center (CDC) located on a military installation. The CYBC-MFLC promotes healthy social-emotional development, resilience, and adjustment by helping children and families successfully navigate the unique challenges associated with military life. The CYBC-MFLC delivers services through a visible, embedded, relationship-based model within the Child Development Center, engaging children, parents, caregivers, and staff in daily activities and natural settings to promote resilience and early identification of concerns.
Using a short-term, solution-focused, strengths-based approach, the CYBC-MFLC supports children in developing age-appropriate coping skills, emotional regulation, social skills, and resilience. Services are preventive in nature and delivered in accordance with Department of War (DoW) Military and Family Life Counseling Program requirements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Child and Youth Counseling Services
- Provide confidential, non-medical, short-term counseling and support services to military children in a Child Development Center setting.
- Deliver services through both structured counseling interactions and informal engagement opportunities within classrooms, activity areas, and other approved childcare settings to increase accessibility and early intervention.
- Utilize developmentally appropriate techniques, including:
- Play-based interventions
- Social-emotional skill building
- Behavioral coaching
- Resilience and coping-skills development
- Classroom observations and support
- Assist children in addressing concerns related to:
- Separation from parents due to deployment, TDY, training, or operational requirements
- Adjustment to relocation and school transitions
- Friendship and peer relationship challenges
- Behavioral concerns and emotional regulation
- Anxiety, stress, and life changes
- Grief and loss
- Family transitions and reintegration
- Deployment-related stress
- Parent absence due to military duties
- Frequent relocation and transition challenges
- Adjustment to military lifestyle demands
- Building resilience during military family transition
- Facilitate structured group activities, classroom-based interventions, and resiliency programming that strengthen social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, coping abilities, and positive peer interactions
Consultation and Collaboration
- Serve as a consultant to CDC leadership, caregivers, teachers, and parents regarding child development and social-emotional well-being.
- Provide coaching, consultation, and resilience-focused support to caregivers and CDC personnel to address military-family stressors and support healthy child development
- Partner with parents and caregivers to reinforce age-appropriate coping and behavioral strategies in home and childcare settings.
- Educate parents and caregivers regarding age-appropriate emotional and behavioral responses to deployment, separation, relocation, reintegration, and other military life transitions.
- Coordinate with installation support agencies, military family programs, school liaisons, and community resources, as appropriate.
Outreach and Prevention
- Deliver DoW approved psychoeducational presentations, workshops, and training on topics such as:
- Child development
- Positive parenting practices
- Emotional regulation
- Building resilience in military children
- Managing transitions and change
- Promote behavioral awareness, emotional regulation, coping strategies, resilience building, and problem-solving skills through developmentally appropriate educational activities and discussions
- Participate in installation outreach events that promote child and family readiness and awareness of CYBC-MFLC services.
- Support prevention-focused initiatives that strengthen protective factors for military-connected children and families.
Documentation and Compliance
- Maintain required CYBC-MFLC program documentation and activity reporting in accordance with MFLC program requirements.
- Adhere to DoW policies, ethical standards, confidentiality requirements, and contract performance expectations.
- Complete all required training, credentialing, and installation access requirements.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Master’s or doctoral degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field.
Licensure
Current, unrestricted independent clinical licensure in a U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia, such as:
- LCSW
- LPC/LCPC/LPCC
- LMFT
- Licensed Psychologist
Experience
- Experience providing counseling or behavioral health services to children and adolescents.
- Experience working in school, childcare, pediatric, family services, or youth-development settings preferred.
- Knowledge of child development principles and evidence-based behavioral interventions.
- Knowledge of military culture and military family systems preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong child-focused counseling and behavioral intervention skills.
- Knowledge of developmental milestones and social-emotional learning practices.
- Ability to engage young children using age-appropriate therapeutic techniques.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with parents, CDC staff, and military stakeholders.
- Strong presentation and consultation skills.
- Ability to work independently within a decentralized service-delivery model.
- Commitment to confidentiality, ethical practice, and child safety.
Mission Impact
The CYBC-MFLC serves as a trusted resource within the Child Development Center, helping military-connected children develop resilience, strengthen social-emotional skills, successfully navigate military life transitions, and maintain healthy developmental progress. Through consultation, prevention, and early intervention services, the CYBC-MFLC contributes to family readiness and the overall well-being of the military community.
Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of team’s philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver – Together.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in child and youth program assistant jobs.
- High school diploma or GED with coursework or experience in child development
- Current CPR and First Aid certification for pediatric settings
- Experience working directly with children or youth in a structured program
- Knowledge of age-appropriate activities and developmental milestones
- Ability to pass a federal or state background check and fingerprinting
- Strong behavior management and conflict de-escalation skills
Tips for Your Child and Youth Program Assistant Job Search
Highlight your age-group experience clearly
Employers differentiate sharply between infant care, school-age programming, and teen activities. Break your resume into age-group sections or note the specific ranges you've worked with so hiring managers can match you to their program's needs instantly.
List every relevant certification you hold
CPR, First Aid, Child Development Associate credentials, and mandatory reporter training appear in nearly every job listing. Put these in a dedicated certifications section near the top of your resume so screeners don't have to hunt for them.
Target installations or agencies that match your clearance status
Many child and youth program assistant roles at military or federal facilities require a background check or security clearance. Filter your search by employer type early so you're not applying to positions you can't yet qualify for.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists child and youth program assistant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare scenario answers about behavior management
Interviewers for these roles almost always ask how you handle a child in distress or a group conflict. Rehearse two or three specific situations from past experience using concrete outcomes, not general philosophies, to show you can act under real pressure.
Follow up with a note referencing the program's mission
After your interview, send a brief follow-up that ties one of your skills directly to a program goal the interviewer mentioned, such as a specific age group's developmental milestone or a planned seasonal activity. Generic thank-you notes rarely stand out in this field.
Child and Youth Program Assistant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most child and youth program assistants?
The companies hiring the most child and youth program assistants right now include Blue Rose Consulting Group, Magellan Health, and US Air Combat Command, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, Illinois, and North Dakota, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Military family support services and large nonprofit youth organizations consistently account for a significant portion of active openings nationwide.
How many child and youth program assistant jobs are remote?
About 20% of child and youth program assistant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most roles in this field. Administrative or curriculum development functions within larger youth organizations tend to offer the most flexibility for partial remote work.
How do you become a child and youth program assistant?
Start by earning a high school diploma and completing coursework in child development, early childhood education, or a related field at a community college. Obtain CPR and First Aid certification, then gain hands-on experience through volunteering, internships, or part-time work at a daycare, after-school program, or youth center. Many employers also require a background check before your start date.
Can you get hired as a child and youth program assistant with little experience?
Yes, many programs hire candidates with limited paid experience if you can show relevant volunteer work, babysitting history, or coursework in child development. Highlighting soft skills like patience, communication with parents, and comfort managing group activities goes a long way. Entry-level roles at community centers or summer camps are often the most accessible starting points in this field.
What does the child and youth program assistant interview process look like?
Most hiring processes include a phone screen followed by an in-person or video interview with a program director or site supervisor. Expect behavioral questions about handling challenging child behavior, working with diverse age groups, and communicating with parents. Some employers also require a brief background check clearance step and reference checks before making a final offer.
Where can I find and apply to child and youth program assistant jobs?
You can find and apply to child and youth program assistant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience, preferred age group, and location, then apply directly to each opening that fits.
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