Family Specialist: High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFW)

South Coast Community Services; Placentia (CA); On-site; USD 33,062 - 38,572; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Transportation assistance

Job summary

South Coast Community Services in California is seeking a Family Specialist to build trusting relationships with children, youth and caregivers within the HFW/FSP framework, providing practical guidance and strategies to address behavioral challenges.

You will collaborate with the youth’s therapist and the Child and Family Team, uncover unmet needs, teach coping skills, and help bridge gaps to improve family dynamics, while ensuring accurate documentation and transportation support.

Qualifications

• AA or Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field and/or relevant experience working with youth in a mental health/social service setting and/or 2 years’ experience working with youth with challenging behaviors.
• Bilingual Spanish strongly preferred.
• One (1) year of experience working with target population.

Responsibilities

• Support and ensure respect for child/youth voice, choice, and preference throughout the four phases of Wraparound.
• Support youth to participate effectively in the CFT process, helping them plan what they want to address and supporting them in the meeting.
• Identify the antecedents, behaviors, and consequences (ABC’s) of targeted non-functional behaviors to understand the function of a child/youth’s behavior(s).
• With the CFT, develop effective, individualized strategies to address specific unmet needs that reflect the parent and/or child/youth culture, strengths and preferences.
• Implement strengths-based behavior plans with individualized and creative strategies, that include supportive linkage to the community and school.
• Support parents and caregivers to understand the function of child/youth behaviors and to try new skills to meet the child/youth needs when implementing a plan, allowing them listen better, and to meet their child’s needs more quickly and accurately.
• Support the youth/child and parents to be more engaged in their family and community environments with skills to manage emotions and reactions in constructive ways.
• Ensure sensitivity to family culture, values and beliefs, and operate from an adoption competent, trauma-informed, strength-based perspective.
• Maintain proficient and accurate documentation adhering to all program and contract standards.
• Provide transportation to the youth for academic, social, recreational, and/or employment activities.
• Work in coordination with the client’s multidisciplinary team, including schools or other child-serving systems, etc. Attend all required meetings.
• Develop and utilize knowledge of community resources to serve children and their families.
• Possess knowledge of behavioral support principles and Wraparound principles and fidelity standards.

Skills

Bilingual Spanish

Youth mental health experience

Education

AA or Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field

2 years’ experience with youth with challenging behaviors

Job description

South Coast Community Services in California is seeking a Family Specialist to build trusting relationships with children, youth and caregivers within the HFW/FSP framework, providing practical guidance and strategies to address behavioral challenges.

You will collaborate with the youth’s therapist and the Child and Family Team, uncover unmet needs, teach coping skills, and help bridge gaps to improve family dynamics, while ensuring accurate documentation and transportation support.