CIS-Crisis Intervention Specialist - Brazosport ISD

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates services for identified students and families during the school day and possibly before and after school.
• Interviews students and/or parents and/or guardians with problems such as personal and family adjustments, abuse, criminal conduct, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, and physical and mental impairments to determine the nature and degree of the problem.
• Secures information on medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to the student's situation, and evaluates these factors and the student's capacities.
• Counsels students individually, in families, or in other small groups regarding plans to meet needs, and aids students in mobilizing inner capacities and environmental resources to improve social functioning.
• Helps students modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing their understanding of themselves and their personal issues.
• Maintains working knowledge of community resources and agencies and connects the appropriate resources to individual students’ and families’ needs.
• Refers and follows up with student and/or parent and/or guardian to community resources and other organizations.
• Compiles records and prepares reports, meeting required deadlines.
• Reviews the service action plan and conducts follow-up inquiries to determine the quantity and quality of crisis services provided to the student and the status of the student's case.
• Accesses and records student and community resource information.
• Secures supplementary information, such as free and reduced-price lunch status, discipline reports, grades, and other school data, necessary to obtain an accurate assessment of the student’s needs.
• Actively involves volunteers in their areas of interest and expertise.
• Work closely with principal(s) and counselor(s) to effectively structure programs that meet the needs of the individual campus setting. When required, determines the student's eligibility for financial assistance.
• Effectively meet the objective of the CIS-Crisis Intervention program through individual mentoring and/or counseling and/or organized group sessions.
• Plan, organize, and implement program design to effectively meet the needs of the students and families.
• Relate, motivate, encourage students, parents/guardian and/or administrators, faculty, and staff.
• Have knowledge of resources in either Southeast Harris and/or Brazoria County area.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, or a related field.
• A license in either psychology or social work, or a related field.
• A minimum of three years' experience in a work setting, including working with students and parents of low and medium incomes and interfacing with various members of school and community.