Director, Clinical Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiatives

About RPYA

The Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance (RPYA) is a non-profit service organization for LGBTQ+ youth and allies in the Inland Empire. Founded in the early 2000s, RPYA grew from a small Friday night youth gathering into a full-service nonprofit providing social services, leadership opportunities, and affirming spaces for LGBTQ+ youth. Our mission is to provide a safe, healthy, and enriching environment for LGBTQ+ youth, their families, and allies.

Position Summary

The Clinical Director provides strategic leadership, clinical oversight, and programmatic direction for RPYA's Behavioral Health and Wellness Services programs, ensuring trauma-informed, culturally responsive, LGBTQ+ affirming care that supports the emotional wellness, safety, and resilience of LGBTQ+ youth and young adults. This role oversees clinical operations, supervises behavioral health staff and interns, supports crisis response and care coordination, and ensures compliance with ethical, legal, confidentiality, documentation, and mandated reporting standards.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide clinical oversight and leadership for RPYA's behavioral health and wellness programs.
• Supervise licensed and unlicensed clinical staff, interns, and contractors.
• Support trauma-informed, youth-centered, restorative, and culturally responsive clinical practices aligned with RPYA's mission, policies, and grant requirements.
• Provide clinical consultation, case conferencing, and crisis intervention support, including suicide risk response, safety planning, and de-escalation.
• Collaborate with Wellness Center leadership, Outreach, Program staff, and community partners to help build coordinated systems of care addressing crisis intervention, suicide prevention, family conflict, trauma, housing instability, substance use, and barriers to care.

Program Development & Operations

• Support behavioral health workflows, including documentation, service coordination, and reporting.
• Collaborate with leadership to establish clinical goals, workflows, and service standards.
• Support review of clinical, safety, confidentiality, and crisis response protocols.
• Maintain service quality, client engagement, and continuity of care; support program evaluation and outcome tracking.

Staff Supervision, Training & Development

• Provide individual and group supervision to clinical staff and interns per applicable licensure standards.
• Support onboarding, mentorship, and professional development of behavioral health staff.
• Build staff competency in trauma-informed care, LGBTQ+ affirming practice, crisis response, mandated reporting, and de-escalation.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable team culture and provide consultation to non-clinical staff supporting youth in crisis.

Care Coordination & Community Collaboration

• Collaborate with Outreach and Housing staff to support continuity of care and crisis stabilization for youth experiencing instability.
• Develop relationships with behavioral health providers, hospitals, schools, shelters, county systems, and community partners.
• Support referral partnerships, warm handoffs, and participation in multidisciplinary care planning.
• Support advocacy efforts related to youth mental health access and affirming behavioral health services.

Documentation, Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure timely, accurate, confidential clinical documentation in compliance with HIPAA, mandated reporting laws, and organizational requirements.
• Support incident review, crisis documentation, audits, and grant reporting.
• Ensure secure handling of protected client information and collaborate with leadership on risk management and critical incidents.

Organizational Leadership & Culture

• Serve as a member of RPYA leadership, contributing to organizational planning, strategy, and culture.
• Promote trauma-informed, restorative, equity-centered practices and staff wellness across the organization.
• Represent RPYA professionally with community partners, funders, schools, and external stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Active California clinical licensure in good standing, including one of the following: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, or Psychologist (PhD/PsyD).
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience providing behavioral health services, counseling, crisis intervention, or clinical case management.
• Minimum 2 years of supervisory, leadership, or program oversight experience.
• Experience working with LGBTQ+ youth, young adults, or communities impacted by trauma, housing instability, family rejection, discrimination, or systemic barriers.
• Strong knowledge of trauma-informed care, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, mandated reporting, and de-escalation practices.
• Knowledge of ethical and legal standards related to behavioral health practice.
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and sound clinical judgment under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supervising associate clinicians, trainees, or multidisciplinary behavioral health teams.
• Experience in nonprofit, community mental health, youth services, school-based, or LGBTQ+ affirming care settings.
• Experience working within Medi-Cal, grant-funded, or county behavioral health systems.
• Familiarity with restorative justice, harm reduction, and trauma recovery approaches.
• Experience providing training and staff development related to trauma-informed care.
• Familiarity with Inland Empire behavioral health and youth-serving systems, and experience with EHR or case management platforms.

Physical & Work Environment Requirements

• This position requires regular work in community-based and Wellness Center settings, including meetings with youth, staff, caregivers, providers, schools, and community partners.
• Responsibilities may include extended sitting, standing, walking, and occasional travel throughout the Inland Empire.
• This role may involve engagement with individuals experiencing crisis, trauma, or emotional distress, requiring the ability to remain calm, professional, and solution-focused.
• Occasional evening and weekend work may be required based on program and crisis response needs.