Family Support Partner - PRN

Shineforth Child & Family Services; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Shineforth Child & Family Services is seeking a dedicated family support professional to assist parents and caregivers in engaging with behavioral health services. The role uses the High Fidelity Wraparound model to guide practice and supports families of children up to age 21 with serious emotional disturbances.

Responsibilities include mentoring families, coordinating with wraparound teams, and helping families access formal and informal resources.

Qualifications

• High school diploma and some college preferred.
• Must be the biological or adoptive parent or person in the parent role who has been the primary caregiver of a child with emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges.
• Must have experience navigating the Virginia behavioral health systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support to families using High Fidelity Wraparound model.
• Consult with families to help them understand options and resources.
• Participate in team meetings to support youth and families in accessing formal services.

Skills

Bi-lingual Spanish (preferred)

Communication

Collaboration

Education

High school diploma and some college

Job description

SUMMARYUsing personal past experiences, provide peer support to parents/caregivers served in the program by assisting them with successful engagement, advocacy, and connection to formal and informal resources helping them to understand and navigate services and build resiliency as a family. This position utilizes the High Fidelity Wraparound process as the model to inform practice.Serve families with children through age 21 that have a serious emotional disturbance that is diagnosable under the DSM-IV. Population to be served will have one or more of the following: a mental health problem, a co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problem, contact with the social services system, juvenile justice or court system, require emergency services, or require long term community mental health and other supports.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.Serve as a consultant to families navigating Virginia behavioral health systems and other formal and informal community resources, ensuring parents/caregivers have the data and information they need to understand options.Work collaboratively with providers (including the Intensive Care Coordinator if this is an ICC case) to provide High Fidelity Wraparound care for identified clients.Participate in all team meetings in order to support youth and families as they identify and engage with formal services and informal supports. Mentor and coach families to act on strengths and use setbacks to increase resiliency.Assist the youth and family, wraparound facilitator and team in the strengths and needs discovery, and promote and reinforce strength-based strategies. (For ICC cases only)Successfully complete training in High Fidelity Wraparound, the family partner role, and in community resources provided by the county.Build trust with parents/caregivers by engaging in a confidential, respectful, non-judgmental, and supportive relationship. Listen to and validate each family member’s perspective, feelings and values allowing everyone to be heard.Attend periodic collaborative meetings with County personnel.Model effective strategies to address obstacles and offer support in overcoming challenges in healthy ways that strengthen family relationships.Help families understand their child’s needs and services. Help families discern and manage information received related to diagnosis, treatment, and services. Role model how parents/caregivers should address controversial information for a successful outcome.Teach, coach, and empower families to communicate more effectively by role modeling appropriate interpersonal, win-win conflict resolution, problem-solving, meeting facilitation and shared decision making techniques.Support parents/caregivers and encourage them to continue to have hope and effectively use family and community support and learn skills to parent children so they become empowered and effective adults.Participate in providing a variety of support services for parents/caregivers/caregivers such as support groups, family activities, etc.Participate in meetings, trainings, and other activities related to program.Attend all Youth and Family Team meetings, typically held monthly but may be more often as necessary, and assist the youth, family and wraparound facilitator in meeting preparation.Support the voice and choice of the youth and family through modeling the effective presentation of ideas and suggestions during team meetings.Other responsibilities as assigned.EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCEHigh school diploma and some college preferred. Must be the biological or adoptive parent or person in the parent role who has been the primary caregiver of a child with emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges is required. Must have experience navigating the Virginia behavioral health systems with their child. Bi-lingual (Spanish) speaking preferred. Participation in wraparound intervention or in family partnership meeting preferred. Must have the ability to articulate the experience and appropriate perspective of a parent/caregiver of a child with complex involving mental health needs and provide support to other families with similar challenges. Must be able to engage and collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds while maintaining a non-judgmental attitude towards families and professionals.PAY RANGE$17.00 - $25.00 hourlyDrug Free WorkplaceEqual Opportunity Employer