Homeless Children’s Network

TITLE: General EPSDT Child and Family Therapist

SCHEDULE: Full-time position, 40 hours per week

SALARY: $80,000

BENEFITS: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance; Commuter stipend

Services under our Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation and EPSDT programs to homeless and formerly homeless children and their families include the following:

• Consultation to Early Childhood Sites and Family Childcare Centers
• Individual therapy with children
• Family therapy
• Staff and Parent education and support in early childhood

Qualifications:

• Mental Health Clinician/Consultant will be working with children, families, and providers.
• Avatar or similar online billing/data entry experience is needed
• Knowledge/experience with issues of homelessness, trauma, and domestic violence.
• Providing psychotherapy to children and families
• Child development knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of bay area resources for low-income and homeless families.
• Must be ASW or MFTI

Positive attitude and team player with proven ability to work with people of different ethnic, socioeconomic, educational, religious and sexual orientations a must. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Genuinely caring, enthusiastic, team-orientated individuals to match our diverse and devoted staff.

About Homeless Children’s Network

HCN works to decrease the impact of trauma and to empower families. Our comprehensive clinical services enable us to work closely with each family to understand their needs and to connect them to HCN's internal resources and our external partners. We form a trusted relationship and follow our clients over time, providing security and stability that allows them to become more stable and confident, raise healthy and emotionally independent children, and develop skills and training that will help lift them out of the cycle of homelessness.

For more information about HCN, please visit our website at https://www.hcnkids.org

HCN’s Community Culture

Of all the above important qualifications, bring the heartfelt quality of compassion, with exquisite cultural responsiveness as a primary guiding quality, not only of your professional life, but of what you hold dear.

Please bring a strong analysis of how race, ethnicity, culture, language, region, poverty, sexual and gender identity, age, education, opportunities and resources generationally made available or not, and systemic oppressions impact a person’s mental health.

Please have stories of your own life and how you have been a mover and shaker to transform these systems.

Please accept that HCN is a vibrant community that has a legacy that is of interest to you, and is also prompted to grow steadily, and with the respect of what has been done well central in the conversation.