Crisis Family Specialist I

About the role

About our Program: MRSS is a Mobile Mental Health Evaluation Team that handles psychiatric emergencies for youth and young adults through age 21 who are experiencing dangerous mental health issues. This team can facilitate psychiatric hospitalization and write 72‑hour holds.

Job Summary: Within a team process, develops a strength‑based relationship with youth and caregivers. Intervenes with maladaptive behaviors while developing the youth's strengths and interests. Responsible for linking to community resources, and transferring skill sets to the caregiver. Helps to create permanent connections for youth and families by searching, locating and engaging family members. Assists with transitioning youth to the lowest level of care.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct services to youth and families.
• Provides direct billable mental health services, documents in alignment with MediCal regulations and achieves set productivity expectations.
• Engages and builds alignment and relationships with parents, youth, and others in the normal course of working with the families.
• Utilizes strengths of youth, families, and others to assist in the implementation and achievement of goals and outcomes.
• Works with youth and family teams to support family driven, strength‑based planning and interventions.
• Understands and takes advantage of therapeutic opportunities in crisis situations.
• Conducts observations regarding specific target behavior, tracks progress and modifies plans with the family to support their intended identified outcome.
• Assists teams in developing a hypothesis of function and underlying unmet need in an effort to develop individualized, strength‑based strategies and interventions that will result in positive behavior change.
• Engages caregiver, family members and other natural supports in building youth‑specific parenting responses that support positive behavior change and overall family relationships.
• Works in the community directly with youth and families to develop and implement safety and skill refinement plans.
• Supports families in bridging to and/or building on natural resources and accessing community‑based program