Family Specialist (LMHC,LMSW,LCSW)– Brooklyn ACT Team

  • Full-time

Company Description

The mission of CASES is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community.

  • We are committed to helping people—regardless of their past choices, present struggles, or future obstacles—to build the capacity and courage to change their lives.
  • We tailor our services to each individual’s unique needs, risks, and strengths and believe the most effective programs are evidence-based, family-focused, and trauma-informed.
  • We are committed to engaging the community by leveraging partnerships and resources to maximize our clients’ opportunities for success.

Our team:

  • We recognize that each CASES staff member is critical. We are a team strengthened by our diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents and united by a common purpose.
  • We are determined to continuously enhance our knowledge and skills, evaluate our results, and learn from our successes and failures.

Our impact on the community:

  • We believe public safety is best protected through alternatives to incarceration that combine accountability and support with empowerment and opportunity.
  • We are committed—through continuous innovation and the strategic disruption of ineffective responses to crime, addiction, and mental illness—to creating solutions for some of the city’s most difficult public safety and public health challenges.

Reports to: Team Leader

Job Description

•    Complete the ACT comprehensive assessment 
•    Identify services consumers should receive in ACT based on assessment of history, current relationships and supports, and immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan
•    During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the nature and degree risk of social relationships and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery, and b) lead the ACT team in daily meetings and weekly clinical meetings around family issues and incorporate findings into service plans
•    Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others
•    Develop comprehensive service plans and 6-month service plan reviews in collaboration with the consumer and the consumer’s support system
•    Involve family and significant others in the consumer’s treatment with the ACT team and provide psycho-education
•    Complete 6-month comprehensive assessment and crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and significant data in timely manner utilizing EHR
•    Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, and psycho-education  based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral strategies Complete at least 68 face to face treatment contacts in the community each month.

Qualifications

•    LMSW/ LCSW/LMHC with current New York State license
•    At least three years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders 
•    Experience understanding family systems based on diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds 
•    Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to psycho-education, motivational interviewing, serious mental illness and recovery
•    Extensive knowledge of Assertive Community Treatment, family community support services such as NAMI, and community resources 
•    Highly organized and self-motivated
•    Proficient in computers 
•    Bilingual/Bicultural preferred

Additional Information

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

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