VP, Programs (Behavioral Health)

About the role

This role is newly created to support Covenant House's mission to end youth homelessness by ensuring comprehensive behavioral health services are available and effective.

Responsibilities

• Support sites that don't offer on-site behavioral health services to add this service offering either through staff roles or community partnerships.
• Expand psychiatry and substance use counseling services across the federation.
• Develop partnerships with online therapy providers, community-based providers, and providers specializing in specific sub-populations of youth.
• Lead the implementation and oversight of the Youth Support and Response Plan project.
• Develop and support sites in implementing evidence-based group treatment curricula.
• Develop and lead a learning community for behavioral health leads from across the CH federation.
• Engage CH youth to gather their input on behavioral health programs, services, and supports and how they can better meet their needs.
• Train sites on using CHI’s risk assessment and safety planning protocol and related resources.
• Train sites in the use of screening protocols for mental health, depression, suicide risk, and substance use.
• Develop training for front-line staff on supporting youth with common behavioral health challenges.
• Become a certified trainer in Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) and manage the federation YMHFA program.
• Collaborate on the development of grant proposals and reports related to behavioral health.
• Manage deliverables for behavioral health grants.
• Engage CH youth to get their input on the BH programs, services and supports available at CH and how they can better meet their needs.
• Meet with site behavioral health leads quarterly to share their behavioral health outcome data, lift up best practices and shared learning, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a master’s degree in a clinical field is required.
• 10-15 years of program leadership experience in behavioral health, preferably in youth homeless services.
• Experience providing technical assistance and system-level leadership to affiliated or external behavioral health programs and providers.
• Experience developing and managing system-level partnerships.