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Family Peer Specialist needed in Brooklyn
Full time position!
Field work required.
The Child and Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. The staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.
Work Shift: Monday 9am-5pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 12pm-8pm, Thursday 10am-6pm and Friday 9am-5pm.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The successful candidate will provide Case Management and Advocacy services for caregivers of children and adolescents, and their families. The Family Peer Advocate will help plan, access, and coordinate services for children and their families. The position is predominately community-based work. The candidate will be traveling within Brooklyn.
Responsibilities include:
-Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child serving system
-Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services. Work to identify formal services and informal resources for families experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.
-Assist families with identifying needs, strengths and challenges.
-Monitor family progress to determine goals met.
-Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of providers
-Develop a resource challenges directory to identify formal services and informal services for families with mental health challenges/or at risk of experiencing mental health.
Qualifications:
-Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges.
-Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Certified Recovery Family Peer Advocate
-Ability and willingness to travel through Brooklyn required. This position is primarily in the field.
-Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups
-Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system
-Bilingual in Russian/Spanish/Urdu/Chinese is a strong plus
Salary: $22.00 per hour plus benefits
For more information and to apply, please contact :
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070
Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com
Full time position!
Field work required.
The Child and Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. The staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.
Work Shift: Monday 9am-5pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 12pm-8pm, Thursday 10am-6pm and Friday 9am-5pm.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The successful candidate will provide Case Management and Advocacy services for caregivers of children and adolescents, and their families. The Family Peer Advocate will help plan, access, and coordinate services for children and their families. The position is predominately community-based work. The candidate will be traveling within Brooklyn.
Responsibilities include:
-Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child serving system
-Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services. Work to identify formal services and informal resources for families experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.
-Assist families with identifying needs, strengths and challenges.
-Monitor family progress to determine goals met.
-Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of providers
-Develop a resource challenges directory to identify formal services and informal services for families with mental health challenges/or at risk of experiencing mental health.
Qualifications:
-Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges.
-Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Certified Recovery Family Peer Advocate
-Ability and willingness to travel through Brooklyn required. This position is primarily in the field.
-Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups
-Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system
-Bilingual in Russian/Spanish/Urdu/Chinese is a strong plus
Salary: $22.00 per hour plus benefits
For more information and to apply, please contact :
Howard Newman
Account Manager, Bond Health Staffing
5824 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11219
Office: 1-718-302-0040 ext. 204
Fax: 1-718-302-0070
Howard@bondhealthstaffing.com
