Youth Rehabilitation Treatment Specialist

Summary Statement

This position is the full performance level of work providing case management services to youth in residential settings. The role includes coordinating the youth’s treatment plan and monitoring progress toward goals to prepare youth for release and transition back to home, community, and school. Typically, positions at this level report to a technical supervisor.

• Provides case management services to youth in a residential setting by coordinating and monitoring the delivery of treatment plans for youth committed to a secured facility.
• Reviews case files including criminal and social history, prepares screening and placement reports, assesses youth needs, and recommends appropriate rehabilitative programs and services to support discharge planning.
• Conducts interviews with youth to explain terms and conditions of supervision, commitment or detention, and to explain behavioral modification goals, processes, and procedures.
• Assists in the development, modification, or review of Treatment Service Plans as part of an inter‑disciplinary team; participates in team review meetings that identify youth needs, treatment objectives, services, behavior modification goals, and release or after‑care planning.
• Outlines youth strengths and areas that need to be addressed, establishes objectives, determines methods, and anticipates results.
• Obtains and coordinates services and resources needed to ensure rehabilitation plans and objectives are met.
• Conducts group and individual behavioral modification counseling sessions such as anger management and victim awareness, and provides advice and assistance to youth concerning employment, living conditions, recreation, life‑skills, and other interests or concerns.
• Assesses youth progress toward rehabilitation and institutional adjustment; evaluates information and prepares reports describing program participation, institutional adjustment, and summary recommendations for or against discharge to after‑care.
• Prepares and maintains social histories, classification reports, progress notes, discharge summaries, and chronological records.
• Oversees an assigned group of youth during education, recreation, and work detail activities.
• May act as a liaison to community organizations to develop and coordinate after‑care plans and services for youth.
• May prepare and present testimony for court proceedings in the adjudication and disposition of juvenile cases.

• Possession of a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Behavioral or Social Science or a related field.
• Knowledge of working with at‑risk youth.
• Knowledge of case management, including assessing, planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating options and services to meet an individual’s human service needs.
• Knowledge of making recommendations as part of a client’s service plan such as clinical treatment, counseling, or determining eligibility for health or human services/benefits.
• Knowledge of interviewing to obtain facts, explore issues, and identify courses of action.
• Knowledge of behavior management, including understanding, explaining, describing, and predicting behavior, studying the connection between behavior and its causes, and identifying appropriate behavior modification strategies for individual situations.
• Six months of experience interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months of experience in narrative report writing.
• Possession of a valid Driver’s License (not suspended, revoked, or cancelled, and not disqualified from driving).

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire.

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