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About the Role

Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services aim to improve functional impairments and severe symptomatology in youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Interventions focus on enhancing family functioning for stability and reintegration of youth returning from residential treatment or hospitalization. The Youth ACT Team is a multi-disciplinary team providing family-driven, youth-guided, and developmentally appropriate services.

Responsibilities

• Provide advocacy with providers across the child serving system to raise awareness, reduce stigma, engage families, and coordinate services.
• Educate about self-help techniques and self-help group processes.
• Provide psychoeducation to family members, caregivers, or social supports.
• Provide individual or group parent skill development related to the behavioral health needs of the child/youth.
• Teach effective coping strategies based on personal experience and assist in developing community support systems.
• Identify formal services and informal resources for families that are culturally affirming and experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.
• Assist families with identifying challenges, strengths, and areas for improvement/goals.
• Monitor and document family progress in accordance with agency and regulatory bodies' policies.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings, staff meetings, trainings, and supervision.
• Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards.
• Document demographic data, family goals, and services provided using an electronic database.
• Perform services in the family's home, youth's home, community, or office.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalency.
• Specialty credentialing in advocacy (can be obtained during probationary period).
• Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges.
• Ability to work with a diverse population (social, cultural, economic groups).
• Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system.
• Prior experience with electronic health records and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to read paper and electronic documents and perform data entry into computer programs.
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to travel independently using public transportation.
• Ability to travel throughout NYC carrying equipment (notebook, forms, laptop, mobile hotspot, cell phone) weighing up to approximately 10 pounds.
• Routinely required to sit (60%), stand (20%), and travel (20%) using public transportation.
• Frequent travel throughout the assigned borough (Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx); infrequent travel throughout NYC.

Skills

• Excellent engagement skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team.

Location

• Queens
• Staten Island
• The Bronx
• NYC

Work Type

• Community-based
• Office-based

Education Level

• High School Diploma or Equivalency

About the Company

• The Jewish Board is an equal opportunity employer.

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.