Milieu Director

Roxbury Crossing
69 Alleghany Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120, USA

When you join The Home for Little Wanderers, you join a team of professionals dedicated to creating better, brighter futures for kids.

For over 200 years, The Home for Little Wanderers has helped build stable lives and hopeful tomorrows for vulnerable children and their families. Our 25+ community-based and residential programs serve thousands of at-risk youths from birth to age 26. Many of these children have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or a disrupted family life. As the oldest child welfare agency in America, we provide them with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships, and a secure path toward a better, brighter future.

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About the Program

The Home For Little Wanderers is seeking a Milieu Director at their Roxbury Crossing location. The Milieu Director will provide supervision to Residential Supervisors and Residential Counselors. They will oversee and manage all aspects of therapeutic milieu programming

The Collaborative, a program of The Home provides community-based wrap‑around services designed to keep youth at home with their primary caregiver and has a long and short‑term out‑of‑home treatment component.

It is located in a brand new, state‑of‑the‑art facility overlooking the Boston skyline in the Roxbury Crossing neighborhood of Boston. The primary goal of the Collaborative is to support families to remain together, or return to being together as soon as clinically possible, by providing wrap‑around services a family needs to be successful in this goal. We provide intensive community‑based in‑home treatment to help families remain together, rebuild connections that have been broken, and provide a unique group home treatment environment for clients not able to remain in their homes.

The Collaborative offers continuity by maintaining the same treatment team across group home and home‑based levels of care, intensity of services matching the level of need, and focus on returning and keeping kids at home with their families.

What kind of clinical environment do we operate in? First and foremost, we offer a highly supportive, well‑resourced, and flexible approach to care. Weekly supervision, multidisciplinary teams, and intensive clinical training support not only the best possible outcomes for our families, but a work environment where the collective wisdom and approaches of all the supporting disciplines lead to amazing outcomes for kids and families.

Our multi‑disciplinary team includes occupational therapists, peer specialists, outreach workers, milieu staff, nurses, psychiatrists, clinicians and administrators, and offers many opportunities for connection, collaboration, growth and a collegial atmosphere.

We are committed to trauma‑informed care that centers the voices of youth and families. To this end, we use principles and practices from Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCT), Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), Restorative Practices, and Permanency work to support family reunification and stabilization. We focus on providing age‑appropriate, culturally sensitive therapy for clients and families in a variety of settings both in the community as well as within group home placement.

How You Will Be Making a Difference

• Provide individual and team supervision for Residential Supervisors. Hire, train and evaluate staff performance; oversee disciplinary action and terminations. Provide input regarding salary administration for Supervisors and counselors. Hire new counseling staff. Coordinate the placement and training of volunteer staff.
• As a member of the management team, draft and revise program policies and procedures, monitor the implementation of HLW guidelines.
• Coordinate and provide training for staff members.
• Provide direct therapeutic care to the residents during in‑ratio shifts and TCI crisis intervention as needed including the use of restraints; assume a leadership role in managing emergency situations.
• As a member of the management team and with Sr. administrative support, provide on‑call…