Young Adult Supportive Specialist

The Young Adult Supportive Living (YASL) Specialist (Case Manager) is a member of the Family Support & Stabilization Program, which consists of five services designed to stabilize youth and families and ensure that they have the skills, resources and family connections they need to be successful. The YASL Service provides services to young adults aged 18 to 22 years, who are ready to transition from a residential/group/foster home living experience to a supportive living arrangement;

scattered apartment sites throughout the Boston area.

• Provide case management to YASL program participants, meeting weekly with assigned resident to ensure safety, security, and cleanliness of each apartment, health and wellbeing of all clients, timely submission of documentation, and a creative, strengths-based approach to problem solving.
• Empower youth to participate in program decisions and self-future and goal planning.
• Develop permanency plans in collaboration with youth and support strengthening family relationships.
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with the group home Program Directors, DCF, schools, employment training, courts, healthcare providers, and other community resources needed to support program goals.
• Prepare and submit reports or case notes as required.
• Provide services to other areas of FSS as needed.
• Participate in rotation of on-call coverage.

Bridges Homeward, previously Cambridge Family & Children’s Service, is one of the oldest human services agencies in Greater Boston. Founded in 1873 as the Avon Home, an orphanage for local children, Bridges Homeward has a long and distinguished history of serving children, adolescents, individuals and families in the Cambridge area, Greater Boston and its suburbs. Today Bridges Homeward provides services for foster and group care, adoption, developmental disabilities, and family support—all programs that support individuals and strengthen families in more than 100 cities and towns throughout Massachusetts.

• Professional Development
• Health and Dental Insurance
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer match
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability and Short Term Disability

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, education, or a related field.
• Professional licensure where applicable.
• Minimum of one year’s experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents and families; preference given to those with experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults.
• Experience in child welfare services preferred.

• Valid driver’s license and properly insured vehicle.
• Clearance of background checks as required by state and federal law.