Youth Trauma-Informed Therapist (At-Risk Girls)

Pace-Center-For-Girl; Florida; On-site; USD 68,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Pace-Center-For-Girl is seeking a licensed mental health professional to provide direct care and wrap-around services to at-risk girls, promoting resilience and healthy development. This full-time role requires trauma-informed, gender-responsive practice across school, home, and community settings.

Responsibilities include weekly therapy, family counseling, crisis intervention, and collaboration with schools and community partners to support girls’ progress and well-being.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field.
• Minimum three to five years’ experience with at-risk youth.
• Current driver’s license.
• Licensed as a Mental Health Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist or Clinical Social Worker or eligible as a registered intern.
• Understand culturally relevant needs of diverse populations.
• Knowledge of case management and community behavioral health practices.
• Youth development knowledge.
• Experience using personal computers and basic office equipment.
• Knowledge of laws relating to youth and families.

Responsibilities

• Increase girls’ resiliency by building protective factors at the individual, family and community levels.
• Address risk factors using holistic assessment, goal setting, and care plan development, and through provision of targeted clinical interventions
• Empower girls and families by improving relationships, increasing self-efficacy, and encouraging self-advocacy, and to make decisions that will lead to productive, fulfilling, and healthy lives
• Utilize the Transtheoretical Model of Change and Cultural-Relational Theory, considering any history of trauma and leveraging girls’ strengths
• Provide weekly therapy services to girls in a variety of settings (school/home/community/center) using evidenced-based and research-informed therapeutic interventions
• Provide family support/counseling with caregivers to encourage girl progression in the change process and to work with girls’ natural support systems
• Provide solution-focused counseling approaches toward the resolution of risk factors for substance abuse following the standards of the Florida Administrative Codes Chapter 65D-30
• Provide crisis intervention as warranted, including risk assessments and family support
• Conduct psycho-educational and therapy groups that are girl-centered, focusing on social-emotional and life skill development
• Provide wrap-around care (case) management services, including transportation services when needed, collaborate with outside entities and community providers involved in girls’ care, make referrals as appropriate, and advocate for needed resources
• Engage in clinical supervision for girls served and contribute clinical knowledge to the care planning team
• Provide advocacy within the community by attending conferences and public speaking events
• Review eligibility requirements for girls entering the program, complete enrollment paperwork, biopsychosocial assessments, clinical documentation, screening tools, care plans and transition plans
• Collaborate with schools and community agencies to support the change process of girls, infusing Gender-Responsive, Trauma-Informed, and Strength-based programming
• Contribute positively toward programmatic outcomes and the collection of data
• Other duties as assigned

Education

Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field

Job description

Pace-Center-For-Girl is seeking a licensed mental health professional to provide direct care and wrap-around services to at-risk girls, promoting resilience and healthy development. This full-time role requires trauma-informed, gender-responsive practice across school, home, and community settings.

Responsibilities include weekly therapy, family counseling, crisis intervention, and collaboration with schools and community partners to support girls’ progress and well-being.