Senior Family Partner - Coastal Community Services Agency

The Senior Family Partner provides leadership, mentorship, and direct family support services to caregivers of youth involved in behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, or other systems of care. This role brings lived experience, advocacy, and systems knowledge to empower families, promote engagement, and strengthen outcomes. 

What You Will Be Doing to Make a Difference in the Lives of Families...

• Assist parent/caregiver with meeting the needs of the youth and meet one or more of the following purposes: Educating, Supporting, Coaching, Modeling, and Guiding 

• Educating, Teaching parent/caregiver how to navigate the child serving systems and processes 

• Fostering empowerment, including linkages to parent/peer support groups and self help groups 

• Teaching parent/caregivers how to identify formal and community based resources (e.g., afterschool programs, food assistance, housing resources etc.) 

• Assist in developing and identifying with the family their natural supports

• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with the Community Resources, state agencies, residential programs, group homes, foster care providers, service providers and community organizations at the area, regional and state levels 

• Develop community partnerships with formal and informal community resources thus enabling family access to expanded, ongoing community based services for the children and families 

• Provide weekly individual supervision to Family Support and Training Partners on staff; all supervision must be documented in files accessible for review by the MCE during the site review process or upon request 

• Supervision notes must contain, at a minimum, information regarding frequency of supervision, format of supervision, supervisors’ credentials, and general content of supervision sessions 

Exceptional Health and Wellness Benefits!

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Health and Dental Insurance 
• Eye-Med Vision Benefits
• Employer Paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Tax Deferred Retirement Plan 403(b) (employer match after the first year of employment)
• Medical Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Benefits First year: 35 Days Paid Time Off -Increased vacation with tenure
• Pet Insurance
• Employee discounts
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Stipends for on-call
• Qualified employer for student loan forgiveness
• Tuition Assistance
• Extensive Training Programs including Certification(s) in Evidence Based Practices
• Supervision for licensure requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Human Service field and 1 year of experience working with the target population

 OR 

• Associate’s degree in the Human Service field and 1 year experience working with children/adolescent/or transitional age youth OR 

• High school diploma or High School Equivalency Test and a minimum of 2 years experience working with children/adolescents/or transitional age youth 

• Experience as a parent/legal guardian/caregiver of a youth with special needs, and preferably a youth with mental health needs 

• Requires 2 years supervisory experience 

• Experience in navigating any of the child and family serving systems and teaching family members who are involved with the child and family serving systems 

• Experience in working collaboratively with state agencies, consumer advocacy groups, and/or behavioral health outpatient facilities 

Bay State Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an environment free from bias, discrimination, or harassment of any kind, and mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and teammates without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.