Therapeutic Mentor

Therapeutic Mentor Position

This is a responsible, professional part-time position within the Children's Services program. The Therapeutic Mentor's role is to provide structured, one-on-one interventions to a youth 5-12 years of age and his/her family that are designed to restore age-appropriate daily living, social, and communication skills that have been affected by a mental health condition. The Therapeutic Mentor works closely with the individual's treatment team in development and provision of skills training opportunities towards meeting identified goals.

Therapeutic mentoring interventions may take place in a variety of settings to include home, school, or other community settings and are designed to help ensure the youth's success in navigating various social contexts, learning new skills, and making functional progress.

Therapeutic Mentoring Services include the following:

• Providing guidance to the recipient and family in implementing the treatment plan;
• Providing skills training for recipient and family in support of the treatment plan goals; and
• Monitoring the recipient's and family's progress on achieving treatment plan goals and communicating regularly with the clinician so that the treatment plan can be modified and necessary.

Key service functions include, as appropriate, but are not limited to education about the following:

• Supporting, coaching, and training the recipient in age appropriate behaviors;
• Problem-solving and conflict resolution;
• Linkages to recreational and social activities

• Establish a therapeutic relationship with the youth and family, coaching and supporting the youth's acquisition of skills
• Develop and supervise skills training opportunities designed to address one or more treatment goals on the youth's individualized treatment plan to meet daily living, social, and communication needs
• Support, coach, and train youth in age-appropriate behaviors, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills, relating appropriate to others in various contexts.
• Provide linkages to recreational and social activities within the community. These linkages may include but are not limited to:
  Boys and Girls Clubs, YMCAs, town recreational programs, faith communities, after-school programs, health and wellness programs, job-training, and tutoring.
• Teach skills through "structured, one-to-one support services" (across life domains and settings) in order for youth to remain at home, prevent out-of-home placement, or to transition "home," to include teaching alternative strategies, providing skills for anticipatory guidance, role plays, and behavior rehearsals.
• Monitoring the recipient's and family's progress on achieving treatment plan goals and communicating regularly with the clinician so that the treatment plan can be modified and necessary.
• Build collaborative partnerships with others demonstrating a non-adversarial advocacy approach.
• Participate as needed in team meetings.
• Ability to model a strength-based approach and utilize collaborative problem-solving techniques with others.
• Utilize youth's strengths and resiliency traits in problem solving and brainstorming solutions.
• Documentation in the child/recipient consumer's record for each session, service, or activity for which Medicaid reimbursement is requested must comply with any applicable certification or licensure standards
• The Therapeutic Mentor supports, coaches, and trains the recipient in connecting with existing treatment providers and in linking with new or additional resources.
• The Therapeutic Mentor participates in all treatment planning and service planning from schools or state agencies.
• The Therapeutic Mentoring provider ensures that all services are provided in a professional manner, ensuring privacy,…