Youth Support Partner

About the role

The High-Fidelity Wraparound process, known in Bucks County as High Fidelity Family Teams, is a needs‑based planning process designed to improve the lives of children with complex mental health needs and their families. It empowers families and youth to have their voices heard through an individualized, child‑centered, family‑focused plan that strengthens the natural family, extended family, and social supports by developing a team to support the family throughout the process and to learn the skills of the model.

The Youth Support Partner is a full‑time position serving youth (and families during meetings) throughout Bucks County who have agreed to participate in the High Fidelity Family Teams Process.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the High Fidelity Team providing support and guidance to youth throughout the process, during meetings, and in the completion of individualized plans developed by the youth and their family.
• Work with identified youth to develop their own team of supports (natural, community, and systems).
• Use personal life experiences to model for youth how to navigate systems using their voice to meet their needs while developing natural supports within their own community to reach the family vision.

Required Qualifications

• Prior experience handling complex emotional and behavioral needs.
• Life experience that provides a diverse understanding of the struggles youth with complex emotional needs endure.
• Successful navigation of child‑serving systems (mental health, child welfare, probation, education).
• Personal involvement with a child‑serving system is required; work‑related experience does not count.

Compensation and Benefits

• Hourly rate of $17.00.
• Annual salary increase and bonus.
• Medical and Vision benefits offered on first day of employment – 3 plan options via Independence Blue Cross.
• Dental benefits offered on first day of employment – 2 plan options via Guardian.
• Ancillary benefits offered on first day of employment (Accident, Critical Illness, Cancer, Short Term Disability).
• Employer‑paid Long Term Disability and $50,000 Life Insurance policy.
• 9 paid holidays.
• 17 days of paid time off, with additional days accrued through years of service.
• Paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• 401K plan with company match and profit sharing.
• Mileage and expense reimbursement for travel and training.
• Clearance reimbursement.