LYFE - Crisis Stabilizer

Wisconsin Community Services Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Position Summary: The Crisis Stabilization position serves as a member of the LYFE Team providing individual skill development and enhancement services to support youth and young adults experiencing suicidality, self-harm, and/or high acuity mental health needs, resulting in potential placement disruptions, hospitalizations, and/or frequent ER visits. The Crisis Stabilizer serves youth at various stages of their recovery from mental health, substance use, and co-occurring needs by embracing the youth’s strengths to meet their identified needs.

The Crisis Stabilizer role varies on each team and services are provided in the community to meet the needs identified in the Plan of Care.

• Essential Functions:
• Act as a member of the LYFE Team providing services to youth and young adults with acute mental health, substance use, and co-occurring needs.
• Build off the person’s strengths to meet their individualized recovery needs. All services will be person-centered and directed by the individual being served.
• Provide crisis stabilization services, including individual skill development and enhancement services related to training in communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision making, self-regulation, conflict resolution, and other specific needs identified in the Plan of Care.
• Embrace Dialectical Behavioral Therapy(DBT) model by reinforcing DBT skills with assigned youth and young adults.
• Services also include training in daily living skills related to personal care, daily tasks, transportation, school, and accessing and connecting to community resources and services (including healthcare services) and other specific daily living skills identified in the Plan of Care.
• Utilize various methods to serve people including but not limited to: on-call de-escalation, role modeling, monitoring, mentoring, supervision, assistance, and cuing.
• Provide services in the community including homes and other community locations.
• On-call 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, to provide de-escalation to youth and young adults in crisis to assist with self-regulation and problem-solving through challenging situations.
• Participate as a team member in team meetings with the individual to create a Plan of Care, identify and prioritize goals, and monitor progress toward meeting identified needs.
• Appropriately document all contact with the people being served and team members to adhere to program requirements.
• Responsible for accurate documentation and maintaining a case file as required by agency policy, government regulations, and applicable local, state, and federal codes.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings, in-service training, seminars, and conferences as required.
• Responsible for maintaining flexibility in daily work schedule to adequately meet program needs.
• Responsible for adhering to agency policies and procedures while carrying out daily responsibilities.

Other

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure people are able to get transportation to all LYFE related appointments.
• Other job-related duties as may be necessary to carry out the responsibilities of the position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

K nowledge and skills to work with a mental health and substance use recovery population; organization skills; experience in working with youth and young adults in recovery who have mental health and/or substance use needs; ability to quickly develop rapport with people, excellent assessment and interviewing skills; good understanding of mental health needs; strong understanding of the substance use population; ability to work through difficult situations;

flexible and able to multitask throughout the work day;…