Domestic Violence IPSP Worker

About the role

The Domestic Violence Informed Parenting and Support Program (DV-IPSP) Worker provides services including assessment, safety planning, intervention meetings, education, collaboration, role-modeling, demonstrations, asset/strength identification, goal setting, and other enhancements as necessary. Services are individualized based on a family’s presenting concerns, home based and delivered during flexible hours, based on family need.

Responsibilities

• Services are individualized based on a family’s presenting concerns, home based and delivered during flexible hours, based on family need.
• Family Preservation DV-IPSP is an in-home program created to focus specifically on families affected by domestic violence and ensure safety and prevent removals.
• DV-IPSP incorporates the principles of Safe and Together which offers a holistic, trauma-based approach and enables service providers to engage families more effectively.
• DV-IPSP empowers the non-offending parent with new skills and support systems to help keep the family safe and ensure better outcomes.
• Serves families at risk of having their children placed in out of home care due to abuse, neglect; or delinquency.
• Serves families with children in out of home placement with family reunification as the goal or in the case of a child who has been returned home, services must only be provided during the 15-month period that the child returns home.
• Serves families with an open MDHHS Child Protective Services case.
• Serves families with an open Prevention case.

Qualifications

• Hourly Wage Up to $22.94/hour based on relevant work experience.
• Passionate about discovering new ways to help empower people and make a difference in their lives.
• Experience working with multi-problem children and families and overall ability to relate to and engage with families with multi-problems.
• Skills in crisis intervention, assessment, short term goal setting.
• Knowledge of family and individual theories, strategies of home based services, including the strength based approach.
• Clinical training and experience in individual, marital and family counseling and brief solution focused therapy.
• Must have a non-judgmental positive attitude toward families in crisis.
• Ability to work in partnerships with other team members or service providers.
• Must demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences present in the service population.
• Must have the ability to forge a mutually respectful partnership with families and individuals in which they are helped to gain skills and confidence to address issues and problems.
• Must have an acceptance of individual difference.
• Ability to collaborate with local MDHHS staff, the court, and other service providers on behalf of the family.
• Knowledge of local resources.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, family ecology, education, consumer/community services, family studies, family and/or child development, guidance/school counseling, counseling psychology, or criminal justice.
• -or-
• An Associate’s degree in a related field with two years of experience working directly with families.
• -or-
• Completion of 60 college credit hours (based on the type of related college courses completed) and two years of experience working with families is required.

Skills

• Experience working with multi-problem children and families and overall ability to engage with, and relate to, families with multi-problems.
• Training, education and experience in the area of human services.
• Skills in crisis intervention, assessment, short term goal setting.
• Knowledge of family and individual theories, strategies of home based services, including the strength based approach.
• Clinical training and experience in individual, marital and family counseling and brief solution focused therapy.
• Non-judgmental positive attitude toward families in crisis.
• Ability to work in partnerships with other team members or service providers.
• Sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences present in the service population.
• Ability to forge a mutually respectful partnership with families and individuals in which they are helped to gain skills and confidence to address issues and problems.
• Acceptance of individual difference.
• Ability to collaborate with local MDHHS staff, the court, and other service providers on behalf of the family.
• Knowledge of local resources.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

Pay

• Up to $22.94/hour based on relevant work experience.

Schedule

• 24-hours a day, 7 days a week availability to clients.