The Children’s Home-Based Services Mental Health Clinician is responsible for providing intensive outreach therapy, providing child, individual, and family therapy services to families with an “emotionally impaired” child/adolescent who is considered at risk of being placed outside of the home for mental health care. The employee in this position is responsible for consulting and coordinating services, as a case management function, with other community mental health programs and/or community organization/service providers. Services will be provided in Lake, Mason, and Oceana counties on and off the program site. The incumbent may be assigned agency consumers who are not open to the Home-Based team based on capacity.
The Children’s Home-Based Services Mental Health Clinician works with families having children between the ages of 6 – 18 years old. These children will require extensive support, monitoring and follow up in order to remain in their own homes, achieve age-appropriate developmental goals, and to become integrated into normal community activities. The position requires the ability to provide/teach basic problem solving and social skills, which would help consumers to deal with difficult behavior in the home, and to be more effective at finding and using natural, community supports. This includes assisting with some or all of the following: housing, financial problems, nutrition, accessing medical care, transportation, recreation, and work-related issues. Additionally, the position incumbent will coordinate services between various agencies (i.e., schools, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Juvenile Court, etc.) to meet the needs of children and families.
