Parent Partner Job Onamia Minnesota USA,Social Work

Location: Onamia

Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Parent Partner for our Mille Lacs agency in Onamia, MN!

Nexus-Mille Lacs offers trauma-informed, family-centered, nationally recognized treatment for boys, ages 10-19, with significant mental health issues and harmful sexual behaviors. We strive to provide the best quality care for our youth as well as our employees. Nexus treatment programs have been creating brighter futures for over 50 years.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Employees must have the ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals or communities and understand their unique needs and challenges. Must be open to meeting the cultural needs of individuals or communities, considering factors such as language, traditions, and values.

Nexus' Comprehensive Benefits Include:

Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
Multiple options for health insurance coverage
No-cost life insurance
Short/long-term disability insurance
401k match
NEW Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
NEW Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
NEW Carrot Fertility Benefit
Tuition assistance and training opportunities
Advancement pathways and internal promotion
And much more!

Schedule/Pay:

Full-Time Monday - Friday
Hourly range $20.50 - $22 an hour

Address:

407 130th Avenue S.

Onamia, MN 56359

Position Summary

The Parent Partner provides active, hands-on, trauma-informed, and family-guided peer support to parents of youth receiving services while collaborating with families, team members, and service providers. The Parent Partner's role is to increase family involvement within the program, connecting families to formal and informal resources, and advocating for families to decrease unintentional, programmatic, and institutional bias toward caregivers.

Primary Responsibilities:

Family, Caregiver and Treatment Facilitation

Manages and coordinates positive family involvement in the treatment process using trauma-informed, strength-based, and client-driven engagement techniques.
Creates community relationships to enhance resource and referral opportunities.
Connects with all families entering the program to engage and build involvement.
Participates in the initial family information-gathering and assessment process to help identify needs and assist in the development of treatment goals.

Client Advocacy

Works with families, caregivers, and treatment team members and all informal and formal supports to assist and support individualized family plans and treatment goals during and post-treatment.
Attends and participates in a variety of meetings to help support and advocate for the well-being, needs and resources for caregivers and youth.
Provides and assists with ongoing advocacy for families during the treatment process and with other providers involved in the family's life. Role models skills and provides coaching so families can learn to advocate for themselves.
Delivers consultation and training to treatment team members to enhance the delivery of family-driven care and positive family engagement techniques.

Family and Client Liaison

Provides parent skill-building education, consultation, and role modeling; leads/co-leads parent support groups.
Acts as a resource for families and responds to family crises in a prompt, effective, and collaborative manner.
May coordinate and conduct family-finding activities to help youth establish a strong support network and support permanency as needed.
Submits timely documentation in the electronic health record regarding work with families.
Facilitates the linking of…