Coordinator of Family Services

Barrier Free Living Family of Companies

Helping people with disabilities help themselves

Freedom House for People with Disabilities

Secret Garden

BFL Apartment

Job Description

Name : ________________________ Position Title : Coordinator of Family Services

Signature : ____________________________ Date : ______________________

Exempt

Full Time Hours Per Week : 35.0

Agency / Program : Freedom House

Supervisor : Assistant Director

Barrier Free Living (BFL) is dedicated to helping New Yorkers with disabilities live independently in the community. Through its various programs, BFL provides a broad range of residential and non-residential services to disabled survivors of domestic violence, transitional shelter to the disabled homeless, and outreach to physically disabled individuals with mental health and / or chemical addiction issues. Services

include case management; housing placements; independent living skills training; occupational therapy; short- and long-term individual counseling; advocacy within the medical, mental health, child welfare, law enforcement, and criminal justice systems; and

referrals to outside services.

Freedom House provides emergency shelter and domestic violence’s services for individuals, including those with disabilities and their children. As a crisis shelter for victims of domestic violence we provide comprehensive services to families and single individuals to assist them in recovering from their experiences of trauma. Services include individual and group counseling, advocacy, case management, assistance with housing and government benefits, on-site child care, occupational therapy, on site LPN and mental health referrals. This state-of-the-art facility is the first completely accessible domestic violence shelter for individuals with disabilities in the country.

Responsibilities :

• Complete family assessments for all families who enter shelter;
• Maintain an individual caseload, providing children ages 4 and older with individual, group, and family therapy;
• Support parents to enhance their parenting skills;
• Hold a caseload of 2-4 adult residents;
• Facilitate Child and Teen Domestic Violence support groups;
• Advocate and collaborate with community agencies to support child, family, and agency outcomes;
• Provide referrals and information to outside agencies related to child development, recreation, and mental health;
• Complete phone screenings for admission into the shelter;
• Intervening in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, as Mandated by Federal and State law;
• Perform crisis intervention, as needed;
• Participate in all appropriate trainings and meetings both internally and externally;
• Maintain adequate and timely case records utilizing the FamCare case management system.

Qualifications :

Start Date : ASAP.

Annual Salary : $59,000

Hours per week : 35 – Monday through Friday with three days 10 : 00am – 6 : 00pm and two days 11 : 00-7 : 00 pm

About BarrierFree Living :

Barrier Free Living (BFL) began its ground-breaking work with people with disabilities in 1978 as a Federally-funded Research and Demonstration Project first known as “Project Outward Bound”. Since then, BFL has gone on to work with thousands of people with disabilities, has launched several successful award winning programs and has become a leader in working with survivors of domestic violence with disabilities. To learn more, please visit our website at www.bflnyc.org

Salary : $59,000