WHAT WE DO: The Lincoln Families Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBS) program provides supports for youth who are at risk of losing their home placement due to their behaviors. Our staff teams work with the entire family to find solutions to ensure stability and reduce and manage challenging behaviors. Services include:

• Comprehensive Assessment: Together with caregivers, assessing and understanding what’s behind challenging behaviors;
• Plan Development: Working together to develop an individualized family-focused plan to modify target behaviors, address environmental conditions, achieve measurable goals, and sustain improvements and gains long-term.
• Implementation & Coaching: Utilizing culturally responsive interventions, working with youth and families to learn new behaviors and coping skills;
• Coordination of Care: Collaborating with primary mental health providers, school personnel, and others to strengthen stability and performance.

Our Why: Life with a child struggling with severe emotional and behavioral issues can become overwhelmingly stressful for the whole family, and jeopardize the child’s ability to remain at home. To ensure stability and success, the entire family must be involved in finding solutions for reducing and managing challenging behaviors long-term. A collaborative approach is critical, working with children, youth, parents, caregivers, foster parents, group home staff, and school personnel to learn strategies and skills to increase the kinds of behaviors for children to succeed and stay at home.

POSITION SUMMARY: Reporting to the Program Manager, the TBS Clinician partners with youth and families in the community setting in order to reduce and eliminate high risk behaviors that significantly impair the young person’s ability to remain placed in their home. The Clinician will also work directly in conjunction with a primary therapist and in collaboration with any other treatment team members to achieve behavioral goals and promote stability in the home.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Conduct a 30-day comprehensive and culturally relevant clinical assessment and functional behavioral analysis across domains (home, school, community)
• Possess the clinical fluency and acuity to provide clinical interventions, family consultation, report writing and translation, and psycho-education in Spanish
• Formulate a client centered treatment plan with measurable and objective goals targeting specific behaviors of the client and their caregivers, and addressing challenges in multiple areas of life skills functioning, with an emphasis on sustainability for the family
• Build one-to-one rapport and a therapeutic alliance with youth and families in order to address goals created during assessment, and to provide direct clinical and behavioral services to youth and families
• Work with the TBS Clinical Supervisor and Program Manager to develop dynamic, innovative, and customized behavioral interventions to implement during direct service with the client at their home, school or community, within the larger context of evidence based practices. Integrate caregiver expertise, cultural norms, and natural supports into planning to develop and maintain high quality, high frequency, time-limited behavioral support
• Actively participate as a clinical member of multiagency treatment teams including: clinical consultation, intervention modeling, and coaching providers and family members in home, school and community settings as outlined in treatment plan
• Document all assessments, treatment plans, monthly reports and progress notes according to Medi-Cal regulations and within Medi-Cal and agency time frames
• Collaborate with outside providers, clinical staff and other Lincoln agency staff to insure seamless integration of TBS with other agency programs and service providers
• Participate in weekly individual clinical supervision, group clinical supervision, staff meetings, and clinical and other trainings and meetings, on site and in the community as expected
• Adhere to all professional licensing legal and ethical requirements
• Requires driving to clients at various locations across Alameda County to conduct meetings at homes, schools or other sites and transporting clients to/from court appointments. (Clinician must have valid CA driver license, personal automobile insurance and satisfactory driving record.)

POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Expresses a passion for partnering with families experiencing significant stress, centering their experiences and knowledge. Experience with strengths-based, trauma-focused care. Experience working in multidisciplinary teams. Interest and enthusiasm for ensuring services are delivered in a manner that is respectful of the diversity of clients’ cultural experiences. Values diversity and expresses such in contact with youth, families and colleagues. Practices ongoing cultural self-assessment to explore the ways they may be prejudiced, biased or ignorant towards others of a different culture. Ability to manage tracking and meeting billing requirements, and integrate critical and clinical feedback on chart reviews. Ability to handle a level of autonomy and flexibility on scheduling.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

• M.S.W., M.A., or M.S. in a relevant field from an accredited graduate school.
• Possesses current license, is registered in internship toward licensure, or is license eligible/demonstrates potential to complete appropriate credentialing process.
• Knowledge and experience in delivery of clinical and case management services with children and families.
• Experience with Medi-Cal documentation requirements preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bilingual Spanish/English required.

WHY JOIN LINCOLN FAMILIES:

• Salary: $78K ($73k salary $5k bilingual skills*)
• Time Off: 4 weeks of vacation, 18 sick days and 11 holidays (including 2 flex holiday); Vacation and sick time begin accruing from day one of employment.
• Benefits: medical, dental and vision with 90-95% employer subsidy for employee premiums; we also offer 50% for dependents. Additional Benefits include flexible spending accounts (FSA), life insurance, disability insurance, commuter benefits, retirement & pension plans.
• Equity at Lincoln Families: we currently have an Employee Equity Council, a Management Equity Team and staff-run Affinity Groups. Lincoln Families also advocates regarding immigrant needs, housing stability & reimagining public safety.
• Wellness: Lincoln Families encourages and supports wellness for all employees so that staff are able to sustain themselves in this work and better serve our families. Staff create self-care plans and receive funding they can use each year towards those plans. Employees also have 1-3 hours of paid time per week for wellness activities.
• Professional Development/Training: Each year, employees can be reimbursed for expenses related professional licensing and other fees, as well as for professional development opportunities. Employees who have been at Lincoln Families for one year are also eligible to participate in advanced training series.
• Student Loan Forgiveness: We are a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit approved site. By working with Lincoln Families, staff are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Top Bay Area Workplace 2021, 2022 and 2023

*contingent upon language proficiency test