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TIP- Facilitator
- Job Title
- TIP- Facilitator
- Position ID
- 27079475
- Duration
- Location
- Auburn, CA 95603
- Other Location
- Description
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OVERVIEW:
The Transition Facilitator implements the core functions of the TIP Model to 15 youth and young adults ages 14-24 with mental health challenges in Western Placer County. The Facilitator ensures the continuity of planning, services and supports by working directly with young people and his/her support team in order to help facilitate the young person’s future through the identification and attainment of the youth’s goals.
Starting salary $50k
DIRECT REPORTS:
- None
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required
- Master's Degree in Behavioral or Social Sciences field
- Minimum of 1-3 years’ experience working with individuals with emotional/behavioral difficulties
- Knowledge/skills/abilities in the unique needs of transition age youth
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE (but not limited to):
- Carry a caseload of 15 youth and young adults, ages14-24 who struggle with mental health and/or behavioral challenges.
- Facilitate support team meetings at the convenience of the team utilizing the TIP Model philosophy.
- Engage young people as well as their support teams in the process of planning for the individual’s future utilizing culture and age-appropriate, individualized services and resources built on the team’s strengths across various life domains to include: employment/career, educational opportunities, living situation, personal effectiveness and wellbeing, and community-life functioning
- Develop and model skills such as: problem solving, decision-making, goal setting, advocacy, assertiveness, interdependence while simultaneously allowing individuals to experience natural consequences.
- Coach/teach life skills (such as: symptom management) which coincide with the youth’s individualized goals
- Help to ensure a safety net by involving formal and informal supports who will be able to continue assist/guide the individual beyond involvement in the program.
- Complete necessary documentation to include: assessments, intake, generating reports, session write-ups, tracking outcomes, data entry into computerized charting system and keeping paper-based charts.
- Provide needed transportation to enable a youth to participate in his/her support team meetings as needed.
- Collaborate and coordinate within Unity Care and other community and county resources in order to better serve assigned caseload.
- Provide oversight and direction to interns/volunteers/mentors that assist with casework.
- Attend staff meetings and trainings as identified by supervisor/contracting agency.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Openings
- 1