Transition Facilitator bei Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (CCSI)
Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (CCSI) · Syracuse, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Onsite
- Junior
- Optionales Büro in Syracuse
Description
POSITION/BUSINESS TITLE: Transition Facilitator
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT: Onondaga County Department of Children & Family Services (OC CFS)
REPORTS TO: Transition to Independence Supervisor
CCSI SERVICE LINE: Program Management
HOURS: 35 hours per week
LOCATION: Syracuse, NY
ABOUT CCSI: CCSI is a not-for-profit management services organization with a special focus in the area of behavioral health and human services. We help provider agencies, local and state government, and other not-for-profits deliver programs and services that improve health and quality of life for the people they serve. Our administrative offices are in Rochester and we work with customers and communities across New York State. Our customers are our partners, and we work hard to develop the longstanding, productive relationships needed to support high quality services.
CCSI’s culture is one that values integrity, innovation, community connectedness, and exceptional customer service. We are committed to maintaining a diverse workforce, an inclusive environment, and efforts aimed toward dismantling structural racism. Our people make CCSI what it is and in turn, we strive to create a work environment that supports both personal and professional growth. We work hard and appreciate the importance of wellness through work/life integration.
ABOUT THE POSITION: CCSI is contracted by Onondaga County Department of Children & Family Services (OC CFS) to provide program management services, including specialized staffing. The Transition Facilitator is assigned to work on behalf of CCSI’s customer and will provide program management services, including specialized staffing. CCSI provides staffing for the OnCare Transition Age Youth Project, a System of Care for Onondaga County that transforms the way mental health, educational and other supportive services are delivered to support the healthy transition of high-risk youth into adulthood.
This position provides direct services to transition age youth (ages 16-21) with serious mental health challenges to support success in home, school, and community settings. Transition Facilitators will engage youth to address relevant transition domains such as behavioral health, educational, employment and career, and living situation. Transition Facilitators will provide services through the credible messenger approach and Transition to Independence process framework, which focus on relationship building, person-centered planning, and a focus on the youth’s future.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
- Meet with identified family/ youth to determine service needs and existing family/ youth supports. Meetings may occur in the home or at a location of the youth/ family’s choosing.
- Assist families and youth with the development of a plan to address their prioritized needs; secure their buy-in to the plan
- Ensure connection to appropriate identified mental health and other supportive resources
- Help families and youth establish creative community connections and assist them in identifying and developing natural supports;
- Help to convene and co-facilitate family team meetings with identified service providers and natural supports to ensure progress toward achieving goals
- Input and maintain records of all case activity in designated database within established timeframes; maintain hard copy records, statistics, or other as directed.
- Serves as a credible messenger and partners with youth, young adults and families where appropriate to complete assessment process, explore natural supports, support registration into an educational program, assist with problem solving, and identify solutions
- Educate youth, young adults and families where appropriate on mental health resources and other supportive services and community resources available and complete associated referrals to services
- Prescriptively use personal experience as an engagement tool
- Deliver service in a manner that is strengths based, family driven, trauma informed and culturally responsive
- Model System of Care principles and practices in interactions with family, youth and other stakeholders
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned
Requirements
Required for this position are: In order to be successful in this position, you will need to be competent in:
- Communicating effectively
- Building collaborative relationships
- Valuing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment
- Striving for self-development and taking initiative to be resourceful
- Problem-solving both independently and with others
- Self-directed, organized and efficient and effective in problem solving
- Basic computer skills; including competence in Microsoft Office
- Basic knowledge of community resources
- Lived experience navigating the children’s mental health, juvenile justice, or foster care system preferred, but not required
- Prior experience providing care coordination services preferred, but not required
- Ability to deliver services through Credible Messenger framework
- Ability to work independently and as a team member, offering support and assistance to other members of the team
- Recognizes and values diversity within the work environment.
- Culturally responsive to the population being served in the development, design, monitoring, evaluation and/or implementation of programs and services
- Respects the confidential nature of certain information exposed to in the course of work performance
What You Bring:
- Associate’s degree in Human Services or other related field or equivalent education and work experience (see CCSI's equivalency chart )
- 2 years providing services to youth of transition age
At CCSI, you’ll enjoy:
- Market-competitive compensation
- An award-winning Wellness@Work and employee benefits program.
- An organization that is committed to racial equity and anti-racist practices.
- Continuous professional development opportunities.
- A voice in shaping CCSI’s ever-evolving diverse company culture.
We Are CCSI!
For more than 30 years, CCSI has been a leading non-profit partner to government agencies, schools, and community-based organizations in the mental and behavioral health space. We aim to maximize these organizations’ potential to serve their communities by supporting their business operations and staffing needs. We dream of communities where everyone flourishes, and we are proud to help our customers move towards that goal.
At CCSI, you are not just part of a team, you are part of a community. You do not just fit in, you belong. We are proud of our steadfast commitment to equity, working diligently to remedy the impact of systems of racism and other forms of oppression to ensure that everyone in our employee community can flourish. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to consider joining us.
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Coordinated Care Services, Inc (CCSI) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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