Family Partner, FIT Citrus Heights
Company: Ssyaf
Location: Citrus Heights
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Job Category: Peer Support/Advocacy/Mentor 8421 Auburn Blvd
Suite 3
Citrus Heights, CA 95610, USA
Description *$1,000 Hiring Bonus, -Additional $1,500 Spanish
Speaking Bonus* *COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED IF HIRED*
QUALIFICATIONSEducation & Experience
- Experience as a parent or caregiver of a child with a serious
emotional disturbance receiving, or having previously received,
services within the public systems, including: mental health, child
welfare, or juvenile justice.
- Basic knowledge of Public Mental Health/Child Welfare/Education
systems, and the ability to advocate on the behalf of clients in
navigating and negotiating those systems
- Previous experience with advocacy, outreach, and community
resources preferredESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONSPositions Specific
- Program Intake: Family Partners participate at some level in
the client intake process, ensuring that family members are aware
of how to access advocacy and support services from Family
Partners.
- Coaching and mentoring: Family Partners coach and educate
families (parents, caregivers, and youth) to acquire greater
communication, system navigation, and self-regulation skills that
are geared to help them take more effective advantage of treatment
while assuring that their personal goals and outcomes are met.
- Outreach: Family Partners participate in CFT (Child and Family
Team) meetings in family homes or in the community, assessing their
strengths and challenges, providing parenting support, informing
them about Stanford Sierra Youth & Families' services, and linking
them to community resources.
- Mutual Support and Education Groups: Family Partners offer
ongoing education and support Groups that bring families with
similar challenges and concerns together. Through support,
information and education, parents, caregivers, and youth are
provided with a variety of tools that can help them to successfully
cope with the challenges that they face when raising their
children.
- Participation in Agency Wide Program Meetings, Family Team
Meetings and Management Decisions: The voice and perspective of
families (parents, caregivers, and youth) is crucial to the
development of all agency decision-making, program development and
treatment planning. Family Partners participate in program and
child and family team meetings to give and exchange their
perspectives on child and family strengths, parents as partners in
the delivery of services and self-help support systems, as well as
the expressed needs of families concerning how the agency may
better accommodate family voice and choice in service
delivery.
- Staff Consultation and Training: Family Partners provide
on-going feedback and training to staff on the importance of a
family's voice and choice and cultural sensitivity in all aspects
of their treatment planning.
- Participation in the Hiring Process: Family Partners
participate in the interview process for potential Stanford Sierra
Youth & Families' employees, providing an assessment of a potential
candidate's ability, skill, and inclination to provide services
that are sensitive to, and inclusive of family voice and choice
issues.
- Community Advocacy: Family Partners may participate in
community trainings, workgroups, planning committees, client
treatment reviews, and task forces related to children's mental
health, advocacy and policy development.
- Grievance and Complaint support: Family Partners assist
parents, caregivers, and youth with the grievance and complaint
process. This includes mentoring, coaching and educating parents,
caregivers, and youth with communication, system navigation, and
self-regulation skills, in addition to technical assistance in
filling out forms and contacting appropriate administrators. -
- Collateral Support: Individual requests to provide collateral
support to caregivers and parents are assigned to the Family
Partner by the Family Partner Manager.Agency Specific
- Performs all duties in a manner consistent with the principles
and values of the agency, while adhering to applicable professional
codes of ethics, agency Policies and Procedures and County Mental
Health Plan regulations
- Model and communicate appropriate positive attitudes toward the
agency's Mission, Vision, and Values
- Work collaboratively with all agency programs and staff to
provide support as needed
- Utilize and maintain Microsoft Outlook calendar with all
work-related details in order to manage time effectively and share
calendar information with coworkers
- Participate in on-going training to expand and develop
professional skills
- Perform other duties as necessary for the agency, as
assignedEmployment At-Will
Employment at the Agency is terminable at-will, which means that
employment may be
terminated at any time, without cause or reason, by either the
employee or the Agency. In
addition the Agency may also demote, layoff, transfer or reassign
employees at any time at its
sole discretion without cause or reason.Check out our Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion Statement Starting Salary Range: $22.00 - $25.00
DOE -QualificationsSkillsPreferred Culturally competent
Intermediate Problem-solving Some Knowledge Written and verbal
communication Intermediate Adhere to all confidentiality
requirements
Keywords: Ssyaf, Citrus Heights , Family Partner, FIT Citrus Heights, Other , Citrus Heights, California
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