Reintegration Mentor - 2nd Shift

About the role

The Reintegration Mentor is a member of the treatment team working in partnership with the Program Manager, Assistant Program Manager, Clinician, Family Support Specialist, Juvenile Probation Officer, DCF, Attorney, Guardian, and anyone involved in the care of the youths. In this partnership, the Reintegration Mentor helps to successfully reintegrate the youth and support the guardian with the youth’s transition back into the community.

Responsibilities

• At time of referral, collaborate with Clinician to engage the youth, family and community resources in preparation for program admission.
• Facilitate youth and family team meetings with Clinician.
• Help facilitate youth and family participation in partnership with the Clinician, the Family Support Specialist, and the Juvenile Probation Officer.
• Work with family and other identified supportive individuals, empowering them to develop a support system.
• Reinforce the youth’s individual treatment plan.
• Facilitate weekly groups such as risks and decisions, restorative justice, DBT therapy skills groups, mindfulness groups, and life skills groups.
• Provide family support that may include but not be limited to assisting the family and acquiring basic needs such as housing, food, mental health, or substance abuse treatment, etc.
• Provide daily DBT coaching with youth.
• Input data into PBS (Performance Based Standards) and CDCS (Contractor Data Collection System).
• Attend new admission orientation and monthly treatment meetings.
• Schedule and help facilitate family visits, earned outings, internships, job placements or interviews, family passes, etc.
• Review behavioral point tracking system with the youth weekly to go over behavioral issues, progress, and level applications.
• Maintain rewards store inventory and facilitate youth weekly shopping.
• Auxiliary with the transition to community after-care services.
• Assist the family and Juvenile Probation Officer with the transition to community after-care services.
• Establish meaningful, supportive and long-term connections with the community including community vocational opportunities and training.
• Analyze and evaluate the accomplishment of program objectives.
• Perform quality assurance audits to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Participate in and maintain SCM certification.
• Comply with all funding and reporting requirements.
• Establish and maintain professional boundaries with all staff, youth and providers.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external providers.
• Perform on-call after hours duties for continued support of the youth based on the attainment of reentry goals.
• Participate in all required training.
• Perform all other duties assigned.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma/GED or higher and lived experience.
• Experience training and working with adolescents, residential treatment programs, mental health crisis intervention and family engagement.
• Knowledge of the juvenile justice system preferred.
• Community connections, willingness to seek out new opportunities for the youths such as community service, network with community programs to bring new initiatives to the program, assist youths gain employment while they are at the program and once they return home, assist with building youth resumes, get the youths to learn life skills and help the youth attain their positive goals.
• Understanding and knowledge of a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), gender responsive approaches, trauma-informed, culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate issues and needs; knowledge of behavior motivation and psychosocial interventions; knowledge of child psychology and development.
• Strong emotional intelligence; ability to interact with multi-cultural populations; leadership, decision making, communication, interpersonal and organizational/prioritization skills, adaptability, flexibility, resourcefulness and resiliency.
• Must share the belief that people can change and individuals in need deserve quality services and an opportunity to succeed.
• Familiarity with relevant state and federal laws.
• A valid CT driver’s license and reliable transportation and ability to transport a youth to appointments for community reintegration efforts, to facilitate probation/attorney/DCF/family visitation and home passes when needed.
• Must have and maintain a valid CT driver’s license and reliable transportation and be able to transport a youth to appointments for community reintegration efforts, to facilitate probation/attorney/DCF/family visitation and home passes when needed. The RM is also required to travel and transport the youth as needed during the 12-month post discharge period. An agency vehicle will be provided.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
• Requires flexible schedule including on-call hours, evening and weekend coverage for continued support of the adolescent based on the attainment of reentry goals.