Director of Mental Health & Wellness​/Clinical Director

Circle of Friends is seeking a visionary and highly collaborative Director of Mental Health & Wellness / Clinical Director to lead the launch and long-term development of Circles of Support, a new disability-informed mental health initiative launching in September 2026.

This is a critical leadership position responsible not only for providing clinical leadership, but for helping build the infrastructure, systems, partnerships, and interdisciplinary team necessary to successfully launch and sustain a comprehensive mental health and family wellness program serving youth with disabilities and those who love them across Lane County.

The Director will play a central role in operationalizing the organization’s vision for accessible, community-informed behavioral health services by helping establish clinical workflows, hiring and supervising clinicians, developing referral pathways, implementing documentation and quality assurance systems, and collaborating closely with families, schools, healthcare providers, and disability-serving organizations.

Working alongside executive leadership, this individual will help shape a first-of-its-kind model of disability-informed mental health care grounded in trauma-informed practice, accessibility, whole-family wellness, and community voice. The Director will also help ensure the program is positioned for long-term sustainability, measurable outcomes, and thoughtful future growth.

This role is ideal for a leader excited by the opportunity to build something meaningful alongside a mission-driven organization at a transformative moment of growth.

Circle of Friends mission is to advance equitable access to education, mental health, community, and opportunity for youth with disabilities and those who love them.

Originally founded as a specialized K–8 school, Circle of Friends is evolving into a broader disability-centered ecosystem of support informed directly by community voice and a recent county-wide disability services needs assessment. Families identified mental health services as one of the community’s most urgent unmet needs, with barriers including provider shortages, long waitlists, affordability challenges, transportation barriers, and lack of disability-informed care.

Circles of Support was created in direct response to this feedback.

• Lead the development and implementation of Circles of Support
• Establish clinical protocols, documentation practices, workflows, and quality standards
• Help design accessible, trauma-informed, disability-affirming systems of care
• Provide individual and/or group therapy services as appropriate
• Develop family-centered mental health programming and caregiver supports
• Support crisis prevention, emotional regulation, and whole-family wellness approaches

• Recruit, onboard, supervise, and mentor mental health clinicians, interns, and future program staff
• Foster a collaborative, mission-driven, and trauma-informed organizational culture
• Support ongoing professional development and continuous learning practices
• Assist in building a sustainable behavioral health workforce pipeline

• Build strong referral pathways with schools, healthcare providers, and disability-serving organizations
• Collaborate with educators, caregivers, advocates, and community stakeholders
• Help reduce fragmentation across systems through coordinated care approaches
• Participate in strategic partnerships and community-based planning efforts

• Support outcomes tracking and continuous quality improvement efforts
• Collaborate with Circle of Friends leadership and third-party evaluators
• Utilize data…