Facilitator - HFW - Carson

Counseling and Research Associates, Inc.; Carson (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Counseling and Research Associates, Inc. is seeking a Full Service Partnership - High Fidelity Wraparound (FSP-HFW) Facilitator.

The role coordinates individualized, family-driven, youth-guided, culturally responsive, and strengths-based services for children and youth with complex behavioral health needs and their families/caregivers. The Facilitator leads the Child and Family Team (CFT) in developing, implementing, monitoring, and updating the Plan of Care, ensuring plans reflect the

Qualifications

• Facilitates Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings.
• Engages child/youth and family/caregiver in planning and decision-making.
• Maintains safety and crisis protocols as required.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage CFT members and lead the planning of Plan of Care.
• Develop and implement individualized Plans of Care with defined goals and timelines.
• Coordinate with schools, healthcare providers, and community partners to ensure continuity of care.
• Monitor plan effectiveness and adjust goals as needed.
• Provide crisis planning and post-crisis follow-up as part of the care team.

Skills

Facilitation

Cultural responsiveness

Crisis management

Tools

IP-CANS familiarity

Job description

The Full Service Partnership - High Fidelity Wraparound (FSP-HFW) Facilitator coordinates
individualized, family-driven, youth-guided, culturally responsive, and strengths-based services for children
and youth with complex behavioral health needs and their families/caregivers.

Facilitator works with the child/youth and family/caregiver to identify Child and Family Team (CFT) members and leads the CFT in developing, implementing, monitoring, and updating the Plan of Care. The
Facilitator ensures the child/youth's and family/caregiver's strengths, needs, culture, values, preferences,
and naturally supports all planning and decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. CHILD AND FAMILY TEAM FACILITATION: Works with the child/youth and family/caregiver to identify
   and engage CFT members, including natural supports, service providers, school representatives,
   healthcare providers, community partners, and others selected by the family. Schedules, prepares for, and
   facilitates CFT meetings that are organized, inclusive, strengths-based, and guided by youth and family
   voice and choice. Identifies strengths, underlying needs, culture, values, preferences, community
   connections, and available formal and natural supports. Communicates with the Child and Family Team
   (CFT) including accessing the family's IP-CANS ratings to incorporate into planning and to provide ongoing
   updates as well as receive vital information from the CFT.
2. ENGAGEMENT: Leads the CFT in developing and implementing an individualized Plan of Care. Ensures
   that the plan includes clearly defined goals, strategies, assigned responsibilities, timelines, and expected
   outcomes. Promotes the meaningful participation of the child/youth and family/caregiver in all phases of
   planning and decision-making. Helps them develop the knowledge, confidence, skills, and ownership
   necessary to direct and eventually manage their own plan.
3. FIELD BASED AND CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SERVICES: Collaborates with schools, healthcare
   providers, child welfare, probation, regional centers, community organizations, and other involved systems
   to promote continuity of care and reduce fragmented or duplicative services. Identifies barriers to
   engagement or progress and works with the CFT to develop practical, individualized solutions.
4. PLAN OF CARE: Regularly monitors the implementation and effectiveness of the Plan of Care.
   Reconvenes the CFT and modifies goals, strategies, services, or supports when circumstances change,
   barriers arise, or the plan is not producing the intended outcomes. Assists the child/youth and
   family/caregiver in identifying, developing, and strengthening natural and community-based supports that
   can continue after formal services end.
5. CRISIS RESPONSE: Collaborates with the child/youth, family/caregiver, CFT, clinical staff, and other
   designated responders to develop and update individualized crisis and safety plans. Participates in crisis-response coordination within the scope of the position and follows Agency procedures when urgent safety or behavioral health concerns arise. Maintains awareness of client, family, staff, and environmental safety during all services and follows established treatment, crisis, safety, and agency procedures. Provides crisis
   prevention, de-escalation, stabilization, and post-crisis follow-up within training and scope; promptly
   communicates changes in risk to the appropriate clinician or supervisor and seeks immediate clinical or
   emergency assistance when circumstances exceed the employee's scope or available resources. Follows
   mandated reporting requirements and completes required incident and safety reporting within established
   timeframes. During office hours, supports assessment and crisis management services, including coordination of an in-
   person crisis response and facilitation of an involuntary psychiatric hold when determined to be clinically indicated by an appropriately qualified professional.
6. AFTER-HOURS CRISIS ACCESS AND ON-CALL RESPONSIBILITIES: Supports the program's
   responsibility to ensure that clients experiencing a crisis after regular business hours are connected to an
   appropriate team member. Must serve as a direct connection to the FSP-HFW on-call team which may not
   be replaced by directing clients exclusively to the LACDMH ACCESS Line, 911, or a suicide and crisis
   hotline.
7. CO-OCCURRING SERVICES: Supports children and youth living with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions through integrated, developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and family-centered care. Within the employee's qualifications and scope, identifies observable substance use concerns, overdose risks, and changes in functioning; communicates concerns to the appropriate clinician
   or supervisor; and assists with referrals and coordination of clinically necessary services.
   Supports the team in the following activities:
   a. Providing or linking clients to individual or group-based interventions that may include motivational
   interviewing, 12-step approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or other approved
   approaches intended to increase understanding of problematic substance use behaviors.
   b. Applying harm-reduction principles throughout the recovery process to help children, youth, and
   families reduce the risks and adverse effects associated with substance use and its impact on
   mental health.
   c. Providing referrals and linkages to community substance use disorder resources and supports,
   including age-appropriate self-help groups, outpatient and residential programs, detoxification
   providers, and recovery-support services.
   d. Supporting identification of and appropriate response to suspected opioid overdose, consistent with Agency procedures and the employee's training, and providing or facilitating linkage to medication- assisted treatment and other clinically necessary services for children and youth at highest risk of overdose.
8. EMPLOYMENT, VOLUNTEERING,