Job title | Behavior Health Specialist
Reports to | Director of Community Wellness
Position type/Pay | Hourly
Job purpose: Ideal candidates for the Behavior Specialist position will be high-energy, responsible, organized, and passionate about working with youth. Candidates should display patience, the ability to be flexible, have excellent behavior management skills, and the ability to make decisions and take initiative. Successful candidates will have youth development, mental health, and case management, experience, and should be comfortable working with diverse, and system impacted youth and families. In this role, you will gain valuable experience working under the supervision of the Director of Community Wellness to support individuals with behavioral and life challenges. You will play a crucial role in creating positive and productive environments for clients.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Communicate student issues to Day Reporting Program Manager
- Attendance to Probation/DCS appointments and Court hearings as needed
- Assist in developing and implementing behavior intervention and case management plans.
- Collect and record data on client progress
- Provide positive reinforcement and redirection to encourage desired outcomes
- De-escalate challenging situations and promote emotional regulation.
- Collaborate with other professionals, such as therapists and social workers, to ensure a cohesive approach to client care.
- Maintain accurate and confidential client records.
- May provide direct support to clients in individual or group settings.
- Any other duties as directed by leadership as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, education, or a related field (preferred).
- Strong understanding of behavior modification principles and Trauma Informed Principles
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Patience, compassion, and a positive attitude.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Computer proficiency (Microsoft Office Suite).
- 3 years demonstrated experience working with youth and families
- 3 years demonstrated experience in group facilitation
- Great collaboration and teamwork skills
- Must pass all DCS required background checks
Since 2010, VOICES has co-created innovative programming with their youth and communities. VOICES is a Black led organization founded and ran by a local husband and wife duo with a desire to transform communities of color. All staff and board members are predominantly people of color and are from working-class and diverse backgrounds. Given their identities--as well as their personal, professional, and civic involvements, VOICES leadership has a profound, nuanced understanding of how systemic racism, generational poverty, and gaps in systems of support entrench the challenges their youth and families face. This understanding has led to new VOICES initiatives that aim to change the inequitable systems youth are engaged in, alongside supporting, and growing the youth themselves. VOICES believes that playing a role in systems-level change is the only way to achieve their long-term vision: bringing about the day when every Indianapolis child, family, and community has the tools, resources, and collective capacity they need to lead self-determined lives.
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