Family Support Professional Coordinator
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Job Description
*2000.00 Sign-on Bonus*
Program and Roles Summary:
Family Support Program (FSP), formerly known as the Individual Care Grant program, provides access to intensive mental health services and supports to youth with a severe emotional disturbance. The goal of the FSP is to support eligible youth and their families by strengthening family stability, improving clinical outcomes, and promoting community-based services.
The Specialized Family Support Program (SFSP) is a 90-day program of crisis stabilization, community mental health, and assessment services. It is designed to identify the behavioral health needs of youth at risk of custody relinquishment (i.e. psychiatric hospital lockout) and to link those youth to the most appropriate clinical services.
Benefits Summary:
Paid vacation/sick time, retirement options, as well as health, vision and dental benefits
Supportive and fun culture
High levels of responsibility and rapid advancement
Essential Functioning:
- Intensive Care Coordination
-Provide intensive care coordination for FSP/SFSP eligible youth. Utilize a strengths-based approach to safety planning, develop family team and family support systems, and link youth to intensive services and resources for the purpose of improving family stability and clinical outcomes.
- Data Entry
-Prepare detailed documentation of activities including opening and closing electronic records, completing required assessments, assisting the family with filling out and submitting FSP applications, preparing reports for HFS, writing daily contact notes, and correspondence, etc.
Education and Experience:
- This position requires a minimum of a master's degree in counseling and guidance, rehabilitation counseling, social work, vocational counseling, psychology, pastoral counseling, family therapy, or a related field as defined by the governing mental health authority.
- The individual must have successfully completed a practicum and/or internship which includes a minimum of 1,000 hours, or one year of clinical experience under a Licensed Qualified Mental Health Professional, including QMHP physician's, licensed clinical psychologists, or registered nurses licensed under the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 with at least one year of clinical experience in a mental health setting.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- N/A