YCOT Case Manager; Youth Crisis

Provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Case Management and Rehab Services. These services include assessment, service plan development, coordinating services, monitoring, advocacy, Crisis Services, Brief Intervention, Aftercare, skills training, parent skills training, and patient and family education. Services are provided to consumers with moderate to high intensity needs. Caseload size and intensity will vary. Services will be provided in the consumer's natural environment, community and/or in the office setting.

The YCOT program is a specialized resource within the crisis service continuum designed to prevent unnecessary escalation to more restrictive or acute levels of care when stabilization can safely and appropriately occur within the home, school, or community setting.

Bachelor's degree in human service field, QMHP

No supervisory responsibilities.

• Responds to youth and family crisis situations in collaboration with YCOT, MCOT, and other designated crisis response personnel.
• Provides crisis prevention, crisis management, and stabilization services in the least restrictive setting appropriate to the youth's assessed needs and safety.
• Utilizes trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive interventions to assist youth and families in managing behavioral health crises.
• Ability to work children and adolescents with MH disabilities, assess consumer needs, establish service plans, make productive referrals, advocate for consumers and families with outside agencies, and work independently and effectively.
• Must be able to cope with frustration, to work non-judgmentally with consumers, and to respond to changing needs of consumers.
• Knowledge of child behavioral interventions.
• Ability to work well with the interdisciplinary team, to use professional supervision, and to speak and write clearly