Family Partner FamilyBased Intensive Treatment

Brien Center for Mental Health; Pittsfield (MA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The Brien Center for Mental Health in Pittsfield, MA, seeks a dedicated Family-Based Intensive Treatment (FIT) team member to provide structured, one-to-one support to parents and guardians of youth with emotional and behavioral needs. The role focuses on empowering families to meet treatment goals and connect with community resources.

Weekdays on 1st shift, you will work in home and community settings, maintain thorough documentation, and collaborate with the FIT team to improve youth

Qualifications

• High school diploma or HISET with 2+ years experience with children/adolescents/transition-age youth
• Associate's degree in human services with 1 year experience with children/adolescents/transition-age youth
• Bachelor's degree in human services with 1 year experience with the target population
• Prior caregiver experience with youth with special needs, preferably mental health needs
• Experience navigating child and family-serving systems and teaching family members involved with the system
• Valid Driver's License and use of a personally insured vehicle for agency business

Responsibilities

• Adheres to applicable state and federal regulations and organizational policies
• Engages parent/caregiver/guardian in activities at home and in the community to support treatment goals
• Delivers services to improve parent capacity to address youth behavioral or emotional needs
• Attends FIT meetings and assists families in articulating strengths, needs, and goals
• Maintains contact with the family 3-5 times per week
• Offers services in home, community, schools, day care, foster homes, and other settings
• Completes required documentation per agency policy and performance specifications

Skills

Valid Driver's License

Education

High school diploma or HISET

Associate's degree in human services

Bachelor's degree in human services

Job description

Weekdays, 1st Shift!

Job Summary

Provides consistent, structured one-to-one support to parents, caregivers, or guardians of youth with emotional and behavioral health needs as part of the FIT (Family-Based Intensive Treatment) team to improve the capacity of the parent, caregiver, or guardian to parent the youth to improve the youth's functioning, support the youth in the community, or assist the youth in returning to the community.

Essential Job Functions

• Adheres to all applicable state and federal regulations; ensures compliance with the organization's policies and procedures, code of conduct, and all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Engages parent, caregiver, or guardian in activities in the home and community to:
  • Address one or more goals on the youth's treatment plan
  • Assist parent, caregiver, or guardian with meeting needs of the youth and meet one or more of the following purposes:
    • Educating, supporting, coaching, modeling, and/or guiding
    • And may also include education; teaching the parent, caregiver, or guardian how to navigate child-serving systems and processes; fostering empowerment, including linkages to peer and parent support and self-help groups; teaching the parent, caregiver, guardian how to identify formal and community-based resources (e.g. after-school programs, food assistance, housing resources, etc.)
• Delivers services designed to support a parent, caregiver, or guardian in improving capacity to ameliorate or resolve a youth's behavioral or emotional needs and/or support a parent, caregiver, or guardian in accordance with the youth's existing treatment or care plan.
• Attends FIT meetings and assists the parent, caregiver, guardian in articulating the youth's strengths, needs, and goals.
• Maintains contact with the family 3-5 times per week.
• Offers and delivers services in the home, community, schools, day care, foster homes, and other community settings.
• Completes all required documentation in accordance with agency policy and performance specifications.

Qualifications, Experience and Education

Minimum education and experience requirements:

• High school diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma (HISET) and a minimum of two years of experience with children/adolescents/transition-age youth

OR

• Associate's degree in a human services field from an accredited school and one year of experience working with children/adolescents/transition-age youth

OR

• Bachelor's degree in a human services field from an accredited school and one year of experience working with the target population.
• Prior experience as a caregiver of a youth with special needs, preferably a youth with mental health needs.
• Prior experience in navigating any of the child and family-serving systems and teaching family members who are involved with the child and family serving systems.
• Valid Driver's License and use of personally insured vehicle for agency business.