CASAC; NYC)

CASAC (NYC)

Housing Solutions of New York is looking for a Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor to join the team!

Salary Range $65,000.00 - $65,000.00 Salary/year

Housing Solutions of New York (HSNY) is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in New York City by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean, affordable, and permanent housing. Our Mission? End Homelessness.

The CASAC is responsible for conducting effective clinical assessments of clients to inform development of client-centered service plans that will assist clients with housing security, health care access and mental health/behavioral transformation.

• Complete comprehensive Psychosocial history.
• Evaluate clients' physical and social environment, maintaining documentation on assessing needs, concerns, family dynamics and background to inform the development of comprehensive and practical care plans that comply with all state and federal requirements with details on the physical, mental and psychosocial health of the client and family; their activities and program participation; their psychological disposition and adjustment;
  Family contact; special challenges; and prognosis.
• Adopt commonly used behavioral health screens to deliver evidenced based comprehensive assessments utilizing the most recent assessment tools that include: the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9); and the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) – for depression; the Trauma Symptom Inventory – for screening trauma and anxiety; the PTSD-8 and Primary Care PTSD Screen (PC-PTSD - for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD- adult or adolescent);
  The Brief Symptom Checklist-18 and My Mood Monitor (M-3) - for both anxiety and depression.; GAD 7; the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST 10); the Cut Down Annoyed, Guilty, Eye-Opener (CAGE); the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT
  
  C); the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST);
  Car, Relax, Alone, Forget, Family or Friends, Trouble(CRAFFT), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Drug Use Screening Tool.
• Demonstrate expertise in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) ensuring that mental health crises being experienced by adults or youth (adolescents) are appropriately handled with a heightened awareness of: the signs of addiction and mental illness; the impact of mental health and substance use disorders; and develop step-by-step action plans to assess risk factors and warning signs of health and mental health challenges;
• Provide prompt crisis intervention services to clients and families, responding with the necessary assistance, and ability to identify additional professional, peer and local health and mental health resources in the community.
• Practice a supportive housing model for HSNY housing programs and services in order to Turn the Tide on homelessness and connect clients to medical and behavioral health care, and comprehensive/supportive services during their shelter stay, and during their acquisition of transitional or permanent housing.
• Schedule appointments as needed to motivate all clients to make healthy adjustments by their participation in activities and social events.
• Provide informal counseling to assess and address any problems which might be interfering with the clients' socialization and participation in activities.
• Be available to help any clients who feel a need to share personal problems, having daily contact with clients, providing them with opportunities to verbalize their challenges and reassure them of HSNY's interest in their welfare.
• Ensure that residents or responsible parties are…