What are the responsibilities and job description for the FAMILY ADVOCATE P / T position at The Jewish Board?
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PURPOSE :
Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services focus on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and sever symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Clinical and rehabilitative interventions also focused on enhancing family functioning to foster health / wellbeing, stability and re-integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in-patient hospitalization. The Youth ACT Team is a multi-disciplinary team and works together to provide family-driven, youth guided and developmentally appropriate services to comprehensively address the needs of youth within the family, school, medical, behavioral, psychosocial and community domains
POSITION OVERVIEW :
The Youth ACT Family Peer Advocate works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children ages 10 through 21, who have significant behavioral health needs and who are at risk of entering or returning home from high-end services focused on clinical treatment, family psychoeducation and skills development.
The Family Peer Advocate provides services to youth and families in their homes and communities al collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts. The role requires some evening availability and rotating on-call coverage.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :
- Provide advocacy with providers across the child serving system to raise awareness, reduce stigma, engage families in and coordinate services
- Educate about self-help techniques and self-help group processes
- Provide psychoeducation to family members, caregivers or social supports
- Providing individual or group parent skill development related to the behavioral health needs of the child / youth
- Teach effective coping strategies based on personal experience and assist in development of community support systems involved
- Work to identify formal services and informal resources for families that are culturally affirming who are experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges
- Assist families with identifying the challenges they face, their strengths and areas of improvement / goals
- Monitor and document family progress to track progress in accordance with agency and regulatory bodies policies
- Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision
- Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards are established by licensing board, relevant professional association and the Jewish Board policies and procedures
- Using an electronic database, document demographic data on all individuals see, document an track family's goals and all service provided
- Perform these services in the family's home, youth's home, community, office
- Any additional duties assigned
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include :
EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED :
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE :
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED :
VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY :
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS MAY INCLUDE :
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.
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Salary : $23,002
