Substance Use Prevention Clinician

18 Degrees is where new beginnings come to light for children and families – and could be where your new career does the same! At 18 Degrees, we cultivate teams and leaders to embrace the principles of diversity, equity and inclusiveness to support the needs of our community.

• The Substance Use Prevention Clinician provides clinical consultation to program staff and the Youth Services Manager.
• Consultation primarily consists of embedding skills development into groups, activities and field trips; working from an upstream clinical perspective, recommending referrals for services, working with families as needed and brief intervention with youth to bolster positive coping skills.
• Support group co-facilitation, working from a harm reduction framework.
• Collaborating with Youth Services Manager to develop programming designed to develop resiliency in the LGBTQIA+ community.
• Work from a harm reduction philosophy for positive physical and behavioral health outcomes.
• Sexual health education, STI prevention and positive relationship development.
• Collaboration with families when needed.

• Education:
  
  Master's level clinician;
  License preferred
• Experience:
  
  Work with youth, children and families, understanding of harm reduction, LGBTQIA+ work highly preferred, working with teenagers preferred. Experience running groups or activities is helpful.
• Other Required Knowledge: solid skills in MS Office, ability to administer and analyze data from evaluation tools, solid report writing skills.

6 hours as scheduled. After school hours primarily with some evening hours, possible weekend hours.

Multicultural/multilingual candidates are encouraged to apply. Send cover letter and resume to Paula McDermott, 18 Degrees, 480 West Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201 or email pmcdermott@18 degreesma.org. Visit our website egreesma.org. AA/EOE