Family Coordinator

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The Family Coordinator works collaboratively with parents/family members and community partners to promote and coordinate the services of the system. The Family Coordinator will report to the Project Director. Utilizing personal experience, the Family Coordinator will provide peer support for families and caregivers navigating the service systems.

Essential Job Functions:

• Promote coordination and integration of family-centered care to ensure participation and involvement of the entire family in the youth's treatment.
  
• Participate as a member of the youth's treatment team to ensure a strengths-based family-centered approach to services is utilized.
  
• Assist families with developing and maintaining natural supports and protective factors that will continue after the completion of formal services.
  
• Organize and execute parent education groups on subjects relating to family functioning, provide referrals to identified services, and educate families on advocating for family-centered services on youth's behalf.
  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of agency, partner, and community resources available to establish and provide wraparound services to youth and families with substance use and/or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
  
• Willingness to advocate for Family Support being included in systems of care that impact youth and family treatment. Support and facilitate training for Family Support Specialists as assigned.
  
• Ability to work independently.
  
• Ability to work well with individuals from diverse economic, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  

Experience and Education Qualifications:

• High School Diploma
  
• Lived experience raising a child with a substance abuse, mental health, and/or co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders, preferred but not required.
  

Supervisory Requirements:

• None
  

Employment Requirements:

• Successful completion of background check including criminal record, driving record, abuse/neglect and fingerprint check.
  
• Completion of New Hire Orientation at the beginning of employment.
  
• All training requirements including Relias at the beginning of employment and annually thereafter.
  
• Current driver's license, acceptable driving record and current auto insurance.
  

Physical Requirements:

ADA Consideration - Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (exists up the 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (exists 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, or pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Repetitive movements of hands, fingers, and arms for typing and/or writing during work shift.

Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Position Perks & Benefits:

Paid time off: full-time employees receive an attractive time off package to balance your work and personal life

Employee benefits package: full-time employees receive health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more

Top-notch training: initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive

Career mobility: advancement opportunities/promoting from within

Welcoming, warm, supportive: a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness

Brightli is on a Mission:

A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance user care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.

As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we prioritize fostering a culture of belonging and connection within our workforce. We encourage applications from individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences, as we believe that a rich tapestry of perspectives strengthens our mission. If you are passionate about empowering local communities and creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization dedicated to cultivating an authentic workplace.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Adult & Child Health is a Smoke and Tobacco Free Workplace.