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24 people are interested
Mental Health Consultant
ORGANIZATION: Friends Association
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24 people are interested
Facilitate workshops or seminars quarterly to offer support and assistance with specific issues and individualized coping strategies.
Essential duties include:
- Working with clients of Friends Assoc; individuals, families, and groups to provide counseling, address mental and emotional disorders and to promote mental health; make referrals to specialists as needed.
- Working one on one with parents on parenting skills.
- Coaching parents to help them address and respond to their children more effectively at home.
Qualifications and Skills required include:
- Must be a trained/licensed professional with a valid license in any of the following disciplines: Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychiatric nursing, Marriage and family counseling or Clinical social work.
-Demonstrated understanding of the social and interpersonal dynamics of poverty and homelessness (including knowledge of substance abuse, domestic violence and child custody issues)
- Must have experience working with young children; knowledge of culturally relevant services in the community; knowledge of treatment in the areas of child behavior management and family crisis intervention; ability to work with families and staff; ability to provide emergency counseling, treatment and referral.
Due to COVID-19 this opportunity will be conducted virtually.
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About Friends Association
Location:
113 West Chestnut Street, West Chester, PA 19380, US
Mission Statement
Friends Association promotes the independence of families with children by providing shelter, programs and services that prevent and end homelessness in Chester County.
Description
Friends Association helps homeless or near homeless families stabliize their lives and find or maintain permanent housing. Through our Emergency Family Shelter, Outreach and Homeless Prevention Programs we address the needs of a wide range of families with children, from those who have become homeless to those who need assistance for a limited time. Our programs help families cope with the complex problems they face while we guide them to find permanent, affordable housing.
Emergency Family Shelter
Our Shelter program combines a private, safe setting and basic necessities with individualized case management services for our families. We strive to keep parents and children together as they work toward becoming stable and productive in their homes, jobs and schools.
Homeless Prevention Program
We help families with children find or maintain safe, permanent housing. Our program balances strong case management services with financial assistance, when needed, for families coming from a shelter or those facing eviction. Our families become independent within 12 to 18 months.
Outreach to Homeless Families
Our Outreach Program connects homeless families with numerous community resources when shelter beds are not available and helps each family develop a plan to transition into stable housing. The program's goal is to secure resources to sustain these families until they are temporarily or permanently housed.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
July 29, 2020
SKILLS
- Mental Health
- Psychology
- Counseling / Mental Health
- Child Welfare
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- At least 2 hours a month for at least 6 months
- Background check and two references, plus an orientation or training.