Family Partner - Ihbtc
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Overview
Job Description
Description
The Family Partner is a vital member of the In Home BaseTherapeutic Care (IHTBC) team, offering peer-based support to caregivers raising youth with significant emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges. This role is grounded in lived experience-the Family Partner uses their own personal journey navigating child-serving systems to empower, guide, and advocate alongside families.
Family Partners work collaboratively with clinicians and young adult peer mentors to help families feel heard, supported, and confident in their ability to navigate services and support their child's success.
What You Will Be Doing to Support Families...
- Assist parent/caregiver with meeting the needs of the youth
- Educate the parent/caregiver how to navigate the child serving systems and processes
- Develop community partnerships with formal and informal community resources thus enabling family access to expanded, ongoing community based services for the children and families
- Attend meetings with families (school, clinical, community) to help them prepare, participate, and advocate effectively.
Schedule: This role is available Part-Time (weekdays 2-6p) 2-3 days a week or Full-Time; 40 hours per week.
Exceptional Benefits
BEGINS ON YOUR FIRST DAY OF WORK
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Health and Dental Insurance
- Eye-Med Vision Benefits
- Employer Paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Tax Deferred Retirement Plan 403(b) (employer match after the first year of employment)
- Medical Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Benefits First year: 35 Days Paid Time Off -Increased vacation with tenure
- Pet Insurance
- Employee discounts
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Stipends for on-call
- Qualified employer for student loan forgiveness
- Tuition Assistance
- Extensive Training Programs including Certification(s) in Evidence Based Practices
- Supervision for licensure requirements
Requirements
- No degree requirements
- Experience as a caregiver of a youth with special needs, and preferably a youth with mental health needs
- Experience in navigating any of the child and family serving systems and teaching family members who are involved with the child and family serving systems, preferably DMH
- Experience in working collaboratively with state agencies, consumer advocacy groups, and/or behavioral health outpatient facilities
- Good organizational and strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate others
Bay State Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from bias, discrimination, or harassment of any kind, and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and teammates without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Contact Information:
857-374-5669
recruitment@baystatecs.org
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