Interventionist (Functional Family Therapy Case Work)

About the role

The goals of an Interventionist are to keep families together while continually assessing for risk and safety issues. Interventionist provides a family-focused approach, with weekly visits, that is designed to motivate and link families to resources and services to address referral behaviors and family risk factors. Interventionists help the families to generalize gains and new skills by locking in these changes and planning for the future. This position is based in the field and corporate office setting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessment including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying systemic risks and protective factors, and developing an analysis of the problem behaviors within the ecological context and model process.
• Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
• Implement a problem conceptualization, identify community-based resources to provide family specific intervention, monitor community-based intervention and outcome review and strategy revision procedure using the model's process.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with model Analytic Process and NYS Connection System requirements.
• Collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system to ensure