Family Partner, Mobile Crisis Intervention

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support to parents and caregivers served by the MCILearn the family’s story, culture, strengths, and concerns
• Be a consistent source of encouragement and hope
• Give non-judgmental, unconditional support
• Model effective coping techniques
• Engage parent/caregiver in activities in the home and community
• Absorb the parent/caregiver with meeting the needs of the youth with the purpose of educating, supporting, coaching, modeling, and guiding
• Empower parent/caregiver with links to peer/parent support and self-help groups in the community
• Teach the parent/caregiver how to identify natural and community-based resources (e.g., after-school programs, food assistance, housing resources, etc.)

Qualifications

• Lived experience as a caregiver of a youth with serious emotional disturbance
• Experience navigating any of the child and family-serving systems and teaching family members who are involved with the child and family serving systems
• High school diploma/GED or college diploma and a minimum of 2 years working with children/families preferred
• Willingness to support families in the office, in community settings including schools and virtually
• Good organizational skills, as well as effective verbal, written and computer skills
• Proficiency with computers including ability to use or learn to use an electronic health record system, audio-visual communication technology (i.e. Doxy or Zoom), and some use of Microsoft Office suite for emails, internal document access, and organization

Benefits

• 3 weeks paid vacation to start, and 4 weeks paid vacation at 2 years
• 12 paid holidays a year including 1 floating holiday
• 10 days of paid sick time a year
• Health, dental, disability, and life insurance
• 403-b with up to 5% employer match
• Tuition reimbursement
• An ability to have a flexible work schedule
• Opportunities for ongoing training, professional development and CEUs

Supportive Environment

• Clinical supervision
• Support always available in difficult situations
• Training in evidence-based practices
• Skill development
• BIPoC support group
• Growth opportunities within the organization