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About the Role

Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) supports families with children aged 0-5, helping them strengthen relationships, improve behavior, and foster secure attachments. This program creates a nurturing, loving, and safe home environment while guiding family members in managing stress, expressing emotions, and navigating challenges. The Therapist works with families to assess their needs, develop intervention plans, and deliver therapy sessions tailored to the family's unique circumstances, collaborating with other service providers to ensure a comprehensive approach to family care. The Therapist provides all services in a client’s home and community.

Responsibilities

• Provide Child Welfare Preventive Services exclusively or primarily within the client’s home and community
• Learn and implement the CPP model
• Improve caregiver-child relationships to restore the child’s functioning
• Integrate case management services with an assigned evidence base model to help families meet their basic needs to promote stability and reduce stress
• Collaborate and coordinate services with all providers working with the family to ensure the family’s needs are adequately addressed
• Conduct assessments including review of referral information, identify and engage key participants, identify strengths and weaknesses and collaboratively develop goals
• Engage caregivers and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement
• Adhere to the fidelity of the model, working within its structure regarding length of treatment, case contacts, interventions, supervision, and documentation
• Participate in consultations with the model developer
• Audio/video record sessions for training and supervision purposes
• Maintain clear and concise documentation in CNNX case record including progress notes of treatment efforts and Family Services Assessment Plans, enter data into PROMIS; prepare reports to Probation if required
• Work a hybrid schedule based on Supervisor Approval and program needs
• Comfortable with group supervision and commitment to work on professional development goals to improve adherence
• Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of families
• Outreach to generate referrals for the program
• Work with a team to meet client, program, and division needs
• Additional tasks as assigned

Requirements

• Basic social work knowledge and understanding of stages of change
• Ability to provide in-house therapy and child welfare services
• Ability to establish a strong therapeutic relationship with families
• Understanding of the use of family therapy principles to provide services
• Understanding of early childhood development and related theories and models of practice
• Strong Assessment skills to evaluate dynamics and interactions within the family
• Ability to Implement strategies to improve family communication and support
• Experience working in the client’s home
• Experience and/or knowledge of Evidence-Based Models, Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused work
• Experience of working within diverse communities
• Direct practice with families
• Knowledge of Microsoft office required
• Candidate must be able to travel within New York City carrying equipment such as a notebook, forms, laptop, mobile hotspot and cell phone weighing up to approximately 10 pounds

Skills

• CPP model implementation
• Caregiver-child relationship improvement
• Case management
• Risk identification and evaluation
• Assessment
• Family therapy principles
• Early childhood development
• Family communication strategies
• Microsoft office
• Connections system (preferred)

Location

• New York City

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Flexible schedule

Experience Level

• Direct practice with families

Education Level

• Master’s degree in social work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy or a related subject area
• Licensed preferred but not required

About the Company

• We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Equal Opportunity

• Does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.