P/T Therapist

You Gotta Believe (YGB) is a New York City-based, national organization specializing in finding permanent families for young adults, teens, and pre-teens in foster care. YGB focuses exclusively on preventing youth from aging out of foster care without family; thus reducing the risk of homelessness, incarceration, and poverty due to a lack of stable connections. Founded in 1995, YGB achieves this mission by collaborating with foster care organizations to recruit, match, and provide indefinite, comprehensive support to adoptive foster parents and youth.

Reporting to the Director of Clinical Services, the Therapist is responsible for providing adoption-competent clinical services to YGB families to facilitate attachment and bonding, decrease family conflict, and decrease the risk of disruption.  This position is located in YGB’s Long Island office in Syosset and will require 5 to 10 hours per week.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carry a small caseload of families
• Meet with families weekly, unless case assessment suggests the family needs to be seen more frequently or less frequently.
• Administer Child Behavior Checklist, Youth Self Report, and Child Parent Relationship Scale at the beginning and end of treatment, as well as at regular intervals during treatment.
• Keep confidential case records with up-to-date progress notes, treatment plans, etc.
• Provide statistics, case vignettes, and any other information requested by funders.
• Participate in case conferences as necessary.
• Collaborate with family’s Case Planner.
• Assist in developing the YGB Mental Health program by participating in program assessment and planning meetings.

Qualifications:

• At least one (1) year of experience working with youth in foster care or adoptive placements; OR Lived experience within the foster care system or as a foster/adoptive parent.
• Some understanding of the impact of early childhood maltreatment, including attachment disruptions.
• Training in at least one model of adoption-competent psychotherapy.
• Knowledge of therapeutic parenting techniques.
• Ability to engage youth of all ages.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Graduate-level degree in a mental health-related field.
• Clinical license (LCSW, LMHC) OR LMSW working toward clinical hours (supervision provided)

COMPENSATION. The compensation range for LCSW or LMHC: $65 for clinical hours; $35 for administrative hours. For LMSW: $55 for clinical hours; $30 for administrative hours.

WE BELIEVE IN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT. You Gotta Believe is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and employees shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender (including pregnancy and gender expression) identity, color, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified differently abled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

Salary : $30 - $65