Infant Mental Health Specialist

About the Organization

Monroe Community Mental Health Authority is a community based mental health service organization dedicated to consumers living in Monroe County. We provide individual health services for people with any type of behavioral health concerns such as substance abuse, emotional issues, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our mission is to enrich lives and promote wellness. We live out that mission by being an inviting resource that offers in‑house, referral, and emergency services, as well as support within the community for those in need.

• Bi‑weekly pay
• Vacation, sick, and personal time
• Four medical plans to choose from, eligible first day of hire
• Dental
• Vision
• Aflac
• Disability and life insurance provided by the Agency, optional buy‑ups
• 401a Money Purchase Pension Plan, 401a Defined Contribution, and 457 Deferred Compensation retirement plans
• YMCA corporate discount

Provide community‑based services to pregnant women and infants age 0‑3 years in situations of high risk for impaired psychosocial and cognitive development and where the parents’ capacity to nurture is constrained by attachment problems, prior history of parent, and/or situational stressors and who meet eligibility for Home Based Services. First consideration in enrollment for services or case consultation will be given to infants in families with caregivers with significant risk factors (e.g., SPMI, history, current postpartum depression, teen moms, etc.).

• Promedica Monroe Hospital or other local hospitals where a mother/infant has been screened and found appropriate for services.
• Local Health Department
• Early On Project
• Monroe Wraparound Initiative
• DHS Prevention Staff
• Self referral

• Conduct Biopsychosocial Assessment
  • Assesses the effects of the family on the condition of the child.
  • Assesses the effects of the child upon the family.
  • Assesses all members of the family unit.
  • Uses knowledge of basic growth and development and learning issues of children.
  • Assesses and teaches parenting skills.
  • Assesses functioning in areas of school, community, family, and interpersonal relationships.
  • Assesses growth and development of the child.
• Uses strengths of the child and family and natural supports within and outside of the family unit.
• Provides direct and indirect service units consistent with qualitative and quantitative performance goals and standards established to comply with Authority requirements.
• Provides services designed to prevent immediate and long‑term consequences of aberrant parenting and promote optional social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
• Develops a strong mother/caregiver attachment with infant; facilitates appropriate child care practices and infant adaptation; reduces mother’s level of psychological distress; reduces social isolation and links to ongoing informal and formal supports; reduces parental and family stressors affecting the infant; develops life‑coping skills; maintains the health of the infant by connecting to medical providers for well‑baby visits and up‑to‑date immunizations; maintains the health of the mother;
  
  and addresses other problems affecting the infant.
• Collaborates with the local Early On Project and Monroe Wraparound Initiative (MWI) to receive community input, establish referral networks, and provide service coordination.
• Cooperates with the interagency policy framework and resource priorities developed through the processes of the interagency Human Services Collaborative Network.
• Develops and maintains referral linkages through in‑service presentations, especially to hospitals, the Health Department and area clinics.
• Develops Family Plan of Service (FPOS) with the primary caregiver; involves family members as appropriate per Person Centered Planning guidelines.
• Coordinates with other systems involved with the family to clarify rules, develop joint service plans, and reduce the number of professionals interacting concurrently.
• Maintains complete and detailed case records and service activity documentation consistent with DCH standards, Authority policy and procedure, and third‑party payor requirements.
• Enhances…