Youth Specialist
Youth Specialist- Placer County Be WELL Program
(Wellness/Empowerment/Learning & Leadership)
This opportunity will be based out of our soon-to-be Roseville CA location
Wayfinder Family Services ensures that children, youth, and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.
Wayfinder is committed to advancing IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility).
Wayfinder believes inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility are essential to our excellence and our mission's execution. We value differences in the pursuit of inquiry and knowledge, mutual understanding, respect, trust, transparency, and cooperation. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and includes individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Individuals of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and differently-abled persons are encouraged to apply.
In exchange for your talent, Wayfinder offers an excellent benefits package, which includes the following:
This role is eligible for student loan repayment by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)
This role is eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
Competitive salary - Sign-on bonus for eligible roles
Flexible schedules depending on the position (some offering hybrid)
Medical insurance with a $30 premium per paycheck coverage plan (employee-only)
Dental insurance 100% employer paid for HMO coverage plan (employee-only)
401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 4%
11 paid holidays per year and a generous paid time off policy
Five paid winter holidays (between Christmas Eve & New Year's Day)
Education Reimbursement Program
Robust training opportunities: Shared Core Practice Model, Trauma-Informed Care, Evidence-based Practices
Clinical Supervision for licensure
Compensation:
In accordance with California law, the expected salary range for this position is posted with this position. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
This opportunity supports Wayfinder's Be WELL Program. The Wayfinder Family Services: The Be Well Program is a work‐based learning program focusing on mental wellness and designed to empower youth to learn, earn, and connect. Using a positive youth development framework, the program
emphasizes opportunities that maximize engagement, mitigate mental health and wellness challenges, and supports
healing for vulnerable youth, their peers, and the community. Youth/TAY are regarded as community assets, change
agents, and influencers who have the power to improve mental wellness. The initiative includes economic relief for youth
participants, paying each youth a stipend for engaging in service projects and other applied work‐based opportunities to
address community mental health needs and empower youth to become strong consumers. The overarching goals are to
destigmatize mental health challenges, assist youth in strengthening resiliency, and to inform the needs of the
community mental health system. We educate, empower, and support youth, families and communities to better understand and care for the mental health of our youth.
Why Be WELL?
We will start by listening to what youth are saying and asking for.
Youth will learn how their own world-view and perspectives affect
their mental health and wellness. Services will be tailored to each
youth's unique needs and will empower youth to learn, earn, and
connect.
Why Wayfinder Family Services?
Wayfinder Family Services is the place to turn for people facing the
greatest challenges. With an emphasis on the mental health of
children, teens, and young adults, we believe that empowering,
supporting, and educating our youth, families and communities to
understand and care for the mental health of young people is
essential to creating healthy and better communities.
The primary purpose of this position is to provide mental health skills-based rehabilitation services and behavioral interventions to assist clients in our clinical therapeutic program in learning ways to manage their behaviors to increase positive social and emotional functioning. The Youth specialist works in coordination with inter and intra-agency treatment team members and across various community-based settings and works collaboratively with any identified Child & Family Team (CFT) and delivers professional services that are trauma-informed, culturally competent, and as outlined in the client’s treatment plan(s).
Additionally, the Youth Specialist is responsible for:
Participate in intake, assessment, plan development and review and provision of following services: individual and group rehabilitation, targeted case management, intensive care coordination, collateral, intensive home-based services, and crisis intervention.
Provides one-on-one behavior intervention for clients based on client’s treatment plan.
Provide skills-based training to youth to increase adaptive skills.
Develops a working knowledge of functional behavioral analysis and assessment, behavioral modification techniques, crisis intervention, and other techniques as required when working with youth with behavioral challenges.
Responds to crisis situations.
Document’s client services in accordance with DMH standards.
Coordinates linkage to appropriate intra-agency and community resources.
Qualifications
Education/Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree and experience in a behavioral health or other relevant setting as a specialist in the fields of physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment.
Experience:
Bilingual English/Spanish required
Experience working with youth and non-minor dependents (NMDs).
Experience working within a therapeutic behavioral services setting, preferred.
Previous experience working in a residential setting, preferred.
Employee Wellness & Safety
Wayfinder is committed to creating an environment where employees and clients are safe. To meet this goal, we ask that employees be fully vaccinated (including boosters) against the COVID-19 virus as a condition of employment. All staff must demonstrate evidence of complete vaccination, including booster, on or before their employment start date. Wayfinder will consider requests for exemption based on religious beliefs or medical accommodations. Wayfinder requires a thorough background screening process, including fingerprinting and a health screening.
Trauma-Informed Care
Wayfinder practices Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) principles which recognize the signs, symptoms, and widespread impact of trauma. Employees integrate the knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care into policies, procedures, and practices to prevent re-traumatization which promotes the healing of families, youth, individuals, and communities.
Wayfinder is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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(Wellness/Empowerment/Learning & Leadership)
This opportunity will be based out of our soon-to-be Roseville CA location
Wayfinder Family Services ensures that children, youth, and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.
Wayfinder is committed to advancing IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility).
Wayfinder believes inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility are essential to our excellence and our mission's execution. We value differences in the pursuit of inquiry and knowledge, mutual understanding, respect, trust, transparency, and cooperation. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and includes individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Individuals of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and differently-abled persons are encouraged to apply.
In exchange for your talent, Wayfinder offers an excellent benefits package, which includes the following:
This role is eligible for student loan repayment by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI)
This role is eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
Competitive salary - Sign-on bonus for eligible roles
Flexible schedules depending on the position (some offering hybrid)
Medical insurance with a $30 premium per paycheck coverage plan (employee-only)
Dental insurance 100% employer paid for HMO coverage plan (employee-only)
401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 4%
11 paid holidays per year and a generous paid time off policy
Five paid winter holidays (between Christmas Eve & New Year's Day)
Education Reimbursement Program
Robust training opportunities: Shared Core Practice Model, Trauma-Informed Care, Evidence-based Practices
Clinical Supervision for licensure
Compensation:
In accordance with California law, the expected salary range for this position is posted with this position. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
This opportunity supports Wayfinder's Be WELL Program. The Wayfinder Family Services: The Be Well Program is a work‐based learning program focusing on mental wellness and designed to empower youth to learn, earn, and connect. Using a positive youth development framework, the program
emphasizes opportunities that maximize engagement, mitigate mental health and wellness challenges, and supports
healing for vulnerable youth, their peers, and the community. Youth/TAY are regarded as community assets, change
agents, and influencers who have the power to improve mental wellness. The initiative includes economic relief for youth
participants, paying each youth a stipend for engaging in service projects and other applied work‐based opportunities to
address community mental health needs and empower youth to become strong consumers. The overarching goals are to
destigmatize mental health challenges, assist youth in strengthening resiliency, and to inform the needs of the
community mental health system. We educate, empower, and support youth, families and communities to better understand and care for the mental health of our youth.
Why Be WELL?
We will start by listening to what youth are saying and asking for.
Youth will learn how their own world-view and perspectives affect
their mental health and wellness. Services will be tailored to each
youth's unique needs and will empower youth to learn, earn, and
connect.
Why Wayfinder Family Services?
Wayfinder Family Services is the place to turn for people facing the
greatest challenges. With an emphasis on the mental health of
children, teens, and young adults, we believe that empowering,
supporting, and educating our youth, families and communities to
understand and care for the mental health of young people is
essential to creating healthy and better communities.
The primary purpose of this position is to provide mental health skills-based rehabilitation services and behavioral interventions to assist clients in our clinical therapeutic program in learning ways to manage their behaviors to increase positive social and emotional functioning. The Youth specialist works in coordination with inter and intra-agency treatment team members and across various community-based settings and works collaboratively with any identified Child & Family Team (CFT) and delivers professional services that are trauma-informed, culturally competent, and as outlined in the client’s treatment plan(s).
Additionally, the Youth Specialist is responsible for:
Participate in intake, assessment, plan development and review and provision of following services: individual and group rehabilitation, targeted case management, intensive care coordination, collateral, intensive home-based services, and crisis intervention.
Provides one-on-one behavior intervention for clients based on client’s treatment plan.
Provide skills-based training to youth to increase adaptive skills.
Develops a working knowledge of functional behavioral analysis and assessment, behavioral modification techniques, crisis intervention, and other techniques as required when working with youth with behavioral challenges.
Responds to crisis situations.
Document’s client services in accordance with DMH standards.
Coordinates linkage to appropriate intra-agency and community resources.
Qualifications
Education/Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree and experience in a behavioral health or other relevant setting as a specialist in the fields of physical restoration, social adjustment, or vocational adjustment.
Experience:
Bilingual English/Spanish required
Experience working with youth and non-minor dependents (NMDs).
Experience working within a therapeutic behavioral services setting, preferred.
Previous experience working in a residential setting, preferred.
Employee Wellness & Safety
Wayfinder is committed to creating an environment where employees and clients are safe. To meet this goal, we ask that employees be fully vaccinated (including boosters) against the COVID-19 virus as a condition of employment. All staff must demonstrate evidence of complete vaccination, including booster, on or before their employment start date. Wayfinder will consider requests for exemption based on religious beliefs or medical accommodations. Wayfinder requires a thorough background screening process, including fingerprinting and a health screening.
Trauma-Informed Care
Wayfinder practices Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) principles which recognize the signs, symptoms, and widespread impact of trauma. Employees integrate the knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care into policies, procedures, and practices to prevent re-traumatization which promotes the healing of families, youth, individuals, and communities.
Wayfinder is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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