Position Summary

This position provides supportive treatment and direct care to individuals, families, and support systems.

Essential Responsibilities

Clinical

• Work closely with local school district to help family members navigate through educational, special education and school-related concerns and needs.
• Work with school district to identify family members that may be in need of family support services.
• Serve as a resource to families, schools and the community in improving overall student attendance and graduation rates, reducing truancy rates, identifying systemic issues, barriers, trends and needs, networking and disseminating information, designing solutions and expanding system capacity.
• Ensure that all family members experiencing CRA-related issues are connected to services that meet their individual needs.
• Work closely with both Juvenile Court and Department of Children and Families
• Ensure there is a process established to provide information and referral and direct assistance where possible for individual family members, including meetings with teachers, assistance with obtaining an Individual Education Plan / 504 Plan, and meetings with other school personnel, as necessary.
• Assist students and parents in identifying and accessing supportive services designed to improve the student’s academic performance.
• Develop strong working relationships with school personnel to identify key needs and priorities of students and their parents and to become a resource to the schools and FRC staff as they work to meet students’ and parents’ educational and non-academic needs.
• Become familiar with systemic issues facing individuals and families and provide ongoing monitoring of any safety concerns.
• Ensure youth and family voice and choice is implemented in service delivery.
• Assist in the development of individualized crisis intervention plans or functional behavioral assessment (FBA).
• Develop creative and proactive approaches to individuals’ and families’ crisis patterns and help address their problems before they develop into crises.
• Develop a healthy working relationship with other collaterals and community resources involved with individuals and families.
• Involve outside providers in a collaborative effort to implement treatment strategies that respond to individuals’ and families’ needs.
• Assist individuals and families in locating and obtaining community based services.

Programmatic

• Responsible for negotiating and implementing special events and other interagency activities that involve schools.
• Identify and analyze data to determine family and community needs. This includes tracking requests for assistance from school personnel, parents, students and districts and Liaison responses to shed light on high frequency needs.
• Work with school personnel and local state and private agency direct service staff to develop and implement processes for improving communication and coordination of services to youth.
• Develop relationships with local state agency staff, become conversant in agency service/programming offerings to at-risk students, act as connector between local state agency staff and youth facing academic and other challenges.
• Work with school, FRC and agency representatives to develop FRC-based initiatives that respond to community needs.
• Develop programming with/at local FRC that meets needs of families in the community – particularly those whose children attend the local public school system.
• Where possible, encourage school district to offer programming at the FRC.
• Work closely with DESE staff that are working in the local communities where the Liaison is located, identify opportunities to work collaboratively in meeting student needs.
• Represent FRC at school district and other relevant community meetings.
• Document work to track successful strategies with youth and evidence of success and student-focused strategies worth replicating.
• Meet with staff of EOE and the local school system to identify issues requiring attention and strategies and programs that improve school performance among under-performing students.
• Attend and/or present at meetings of EOE, the Readiness Cabinet and/or EOHHS with respect to activities and findings.
• Present cases for review both in a team setting and as part of utilization review with contractors.
• Be thoroughly versed in all procedures necessary to utilize crisis teams and other ancillary resources.
• Complete progress notes and all ancillary individual and family documentation in persons served records.
• Complete incident reporting and any documentation as required by supervisor.
• Meet and follow all team and agency policy and procedures.
• Attend all conferences, meetings, supervisions and trainings necessary for quality job performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology or related Human Services field required
• Must have experience working with schools and familiarity with local school district and key players. Must have experience working within a human service agency (either state or community-based).
• Current driver’s license, reliable transportation to and from many meetings, sites and appointments. Must be able to travel within a community.
• Must have access to personal cell phone.
• Must become First Aid/ CPR certified if not currently certified.

Build YOUR career! Family Continuity is rapidly expanding its energetic workforce to lead fast paced, innovative clinical programming throughout Massachusetts. Our mission for over 30 years is to support family success in every community by empowering people, enhancing their strengths, and creating solutions through partnerships to achieve hope, positive change and meaningful lives. This is evidenced by our quality work with clients and a strong commitment to our employees. At Family Continuity, we value your dedication and hard work and give you the tools and experience needed to succeed and become a leader in the clinical field.

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