Intensive Home-Based Therapeutic Care - Family Partner

Description And Responsibilities

The Family Partner at Open Sky's Intensive Home-Based Therapeutic Care provides support to youth and young adults aged 6–22 facing emotional challenges and multi-stressed families. Using lived experience as a parent, caregiver, or family member, this role fosters trust, strengthens advocacy skills, and empowers families towards stability and recovery.

• Supports parents and caregivers in understanding and navigating child-serving systems like behavioral health, education, child welfare, or juvenile justice.
• Collaborates with youth, caregivers, clinicians, schools, and other service providers to integrate peer and family support into care plans.
• Develops goals, crisis plans, and problem-solving strategies with families, drawing from personal experience and recovery.
• Enhances communication skills and relationship-building among family members, friends, and support networks.
• Promotes hope, normalization, and empowerment by sharing recovery stories, self-advocacy tips, and system navigation insights.

Qualifications

• Lived experience as a parent, caregiver, guardian, grandparent, or foster care parent supporting someone with mental health challenges.
• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent, required.
• Valid Driver’s License and acceptable driving record, required.
• Experience accessing mental health or related services, required.
• Reliable, willing to learn, and open to new opportunities.

About Us

At Open Sky Community Services, we believe everyone deserves a productive and fulfilling life. We're committed to anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, and justice. Join us to work with over 1,300 compassionate professionals in Central Massachusetts and beyond. We strive for transparency and sensitivity, offer excellent supervision, professional development, and training, and provide generous benefits including tuition reimbursement, retirement plans, and more.

Benefits

• Excellent supervision and professional development opportunities.
• Generous paid time off plan starting at 29 days (over 6 weeks) in your first year, increasing to 32 days in your second year, and up to 43 days (over 8 weeks).
• Medical, dental, vision insurance with prescription coverage.
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
• Life insurance (100% employer-paid).
• Eligible for the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
• And much more!

Open Sky is Proud to Be an Equal Opportunity Employer

We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran, or disabled Veteran status.