Family Partner

Program & Location: Brockton Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
Education: High School or equivalent (GED)
Pay Range: $45,760 -$54,080 (Education & experience dependent)
Status: Full Time

About Us

High Point & Affiliated Organizations is a health and human service agency whose mission is to prevent and treat substance use and mental health disorders. High Point has programs located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts offering a full continuum of care for substance use and mental health treatment, including inpatient, outpatient, residential, and community-based services. Programs and services also assist survivors of abuse, violence, and families experiencing homelessness.

High Point believes that everyone has inherent goodness, worth, and dignity. Our goal is to help individuals and families achieve personal change and improve their quality of life.

Family Partner Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide emotional and social support to families (parent/caregiver) of a youth with behavioral health needs and lives in the community being served
• Share lived experience and use coaching and mentoring
• Support Parent/caregivers/family in making positive life changes and developing skills to facilitate their recovery
• Provide on-going in-home crisis stabilization services and support to families/caregivers in navigating the behavioral health crisis response system and can support brief interventions that address behavior and safety
• Assist parent/caregivers/family to discuss and try new strategies for developing recovery-supportive friendships, reconnecting or improving family relationships, and identifying and using community networks.
• Assist Parent/caregivers in creating personally meaningful links to treatment, peer support services, and mutual aid and support them in their efforts to build their capacity to move between and among these services and supports as needed.
• Act in an open and transparent way as a role model and living example of a peer support
• When appropriate, use the peer relationship to assist with motivation and facilitate connections to primary and specialty medical, dental, and mental health services as well as social services, including applying for benefits and navigating other relevant systems, such as criminal justice and child protection/child welfare.
• Demonstrate cultural humility through linguistically appropriate and culturally sensitive peer supports that embrace the diversity of Parent/caregivers’ identities, including racial, ethnic, gender/gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, physical and intellectual challenges
• Serve as an advocate for parent/caregivers and assist parent/caregivers in learning self-advocacy skills.
• Act as a mentor, assisting the parent/caregiver’s treatment process and supporting the parent/caregiver’s goals and decisions
• Provide peer support services in a person-centered and strength-based manner.
• Provide temporary assistance with transportation to essential self-help, peer support, and medical and behavioral health appointments while transitioning to community-based transportation resources.
• Deliver services on a mobile basis to parent/caregivers in any setting that is safe for the parent/caregiver and staff.
• Using a peer mentoring framework, work collaboratively with the pregnant and/or parenting Parent/caregiver to create and coordinate Plan of Safe Care (also called Family Support Plan) specifically designed to help the parent/caregiver identify needed services for recovery and parenting
• Support the parent/caregiver around perinatal health and support needs, housing needs, health care needs, income needs, and mental health
• Maintain appropriate level of productivity/billable hours
• Accurately complete all required billing sheets and expense reports in required…