Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist

As a Child & Adolescent Behavior Specialist, you will work with children and adolescents who are actively involved in mental health treatment. By meeting with clients and their families, you will develop a recovery plan focused on their strengths, support systems, and needs.

You Will Provide Services That Consist Of Rehabilitative, Environmental Support And Resources Coordination Considered Essential To Assist a Youth/family In Gaining Access To Necessary Services And In Creating Environments That Promote Resiliency And Support The Emotional And Functional Growth And Development Of The Youth. The Service Activities Include

• Assistance to the youth and family/responsible caregivers in the facilitation and coordination of the Individual Resiliency Plan (IRP) including providing skills support in the youth/family’s self-articulation of personal goals and objectives;
• Planning in a proactive manner to assist the youth/family in managing or preventing crisis situations;
• Individualized interventions, which shall have as objectives:
• Identification, with the youth, of strengths which may aid him/her in achieving resilience, as well as barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for age-appropriate functioning in school, with peers, and with family;
• Support to facilitate enhanced natural and age-appropriate supports (including support/assistance with defining what wellness means to the youth in order to assist them with resiliency-based goal setting and attainment);
• Assistance in the development of interpersonal, community coping and functional skills (including adaptation to home, school and healthy social environments); d. Encouraging the development and eventual succession of natural supports in living, learning, working, other social environments;
• Assistance in the acquisition of skills for the youth to self-recognize emotional triggers and to self-manage behaviors related to the youth’s identified emotional disturbance;
• Assistance with personal development, school performance, work performance, and functioning in social and family environment through teaching skills/strategies to ameliorate the effect of behavioral health symptoms;
• Assistance in enhancing social and coping skills that ameliorate life stresses resulting from the youth’s emotional disturbance
• Service and resource coordination to assist the youth and family in gaining access to necessary rehabilitative, medical, social and other services and supports;
• Assistance to youth and other supporting natural resources with illness understanding and self-management;
• Any necessary monitoring and follow-up to determine if the services accessed have adequately met the youth’s needs;
• Identification, with the youth/family, of risk indicators related to substance use disorder relapse, and strategies to prevent relapse.

This service is provided to youth in order to promote stability and build towards age-appropriate functioning in their daily environment. Stability is measured by a decreased number of hospitalizations, by decreased frequency and duration of crisis episodes and by increased and/or stable participation in school and community activities. Support based on the youth’s needs are used to promote resiliency while understanding the effects of the emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorder and to promote functioning at an age-appropriate level.

Staff will serve as the primary coordinator of behavioral health services and will provide linkage to community; general entitlements; and psychiatric, substance use disorder, medical services, crisis prevention and intervention services.

• Primarily weekday role
• Bonus opportunities
• Stability and growth working for a national agency

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field
• Preferred:
  • Prior behavioral health experience
  • Experience working with clients in a therapeutic treatment environment
• Professional and courteous communication (verbal and in writing) and knowledge of and sensitivity to culturally diverse populations.
• Valid Georgia Driver’s License and clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR);
• Clean Criminal Background Check (no conviction or…