Parent Advocate Job New York New York USA,Healthcare

Reasons you’ll love working with us:

If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with,
you can find your niche here
. Our clients and staff are
as diverse as the city
we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.
We’re committed to supporting your
career development
by encouraging
mobility and advancement
across different program typesand jobs.
With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can
work close to where you live.
Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy
work/life balance.
We offer an
excellent benefits package
with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.
You’ll receive
ongoing support
through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

The Jewish Board’s Child and Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. The staff use a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.

The successful candidate will provide Case Management and Advocacy services for caregivers of children and adolescents, and their families. The Family Peer Advocate will help plan, access, and coordinate services for children and their families.

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Provide advocacy through outreach with providers across the child serving system
Work to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and engage families in services.
Participation in weekly supervision.
Participation in staff meetings.
Work to identify formal services and informal resources for families experiencing social-emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.
Assist families with identifying needs, strengths and challenges.
Monitor family progress to determine goals met.
Collaborate with care providers and community supports to help families meet their goals
Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of providers
Develop a resource directory to identify formal services and informal services for families with mental health challenges/or at risk of experiencing mental health challenges.
Conduct outreach/information sessions/workshops with providers across the child serving system.
Using an electronic database, document demographic data on all individuals seen, document and track family’s goals, and all services provided to parent/caregiver; participates in quality improvement activities.
Any additional duties assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:

Must have lived experience with the child welfare system as a parent.

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING

REQUIRED:

High school diploma or equivalency.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:

The Jewish Board is currently looking for talented individuals of all cultures, religions, races, and gender expressions with the following qualifications:
Lived experience in parenting a child or adolescent with a serious emotional disturbance and/or lived experience of mental health challenges.
Fully licensed or Provisional License as a Family Peer Advocate
Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, economic groups
Background in advocating mental health and/or in the educational system
Bilingual in Russian/Spanish/Urdu/Chinese is a strong plus

COMPUTER

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Experience working with electronic medical records and…