Amity Foundation, an internationally acclaimed Teaching, and Therapeutic Community are seeking compassionate and enthusiastic individuals with a desire to teach and learn to join us as Clinician I at our youth offender program in Chowchilla. This groundbreaking opportunity will not only be working in our youth programs to help the juvenile offender population but will also enhance your training and experience in the field.
About Amity:
Amity Foundation is a safe place where people can change in an environment that fosters trust; where new values can be formed; responsibility developed and lasting relationships built. Amity is dedicated to the inclusion and habilitation of people marginalized by addiction, homelessness, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, and violence. Amity is committed to research, development implementation, and dissemination of information regarding community building.
Remembrance, Resolution, Reconciliation, Restoration, Renewal
Job Summary:
The Journey AOD III is responsible for providing trauma informed group counseling services to participants enrolled in the Youth Offender Program (YOP). This includes a variety of services including assessment, treatment planning, participant education, documentation, follow-up, etc. The clinician’s primary responsibility will be to provide quality clinical care through group therapy with collaboration of CDCR DRP, CCHS and DAI institution staff.
Essential Duties:
- Delivers approved trauma informed curriculum-based programming services to participants.
- Provides and conduct trauma-informed groups using trauma-informed curricula; structured and gender-responsive trauma-informed groups. Conduct multiple groups daily and/or individual sessions as necessary.
- Participates in case conferences and provide guidance in determining education and vocational goals based on the interest and preferences of each participant in addition to individualized assessments.
- Maintains participant supervision, including development of the treatment plan, review of client’s files, and initial and or ongoing client assessments.
- Evaluates and documents the progress of participants assigned to their groups.
- Documents the delivery of programming services in ARMS and other documentation as required.
- Work with the participants to develop and implement a treatment/action plan.
- Engage participants daily, reinforce group rules and expectation for participations and completion.
- Work collaboratively with Facilitator Inmates and OMCP Mentors as needed during group sessions.
- Work collaboratively with CDCR DRP, CCHS and DAI institution staff.
- Attend workshops, meetings, and trainings as requested by supervisor.
- May serve as Community Advocate role in addition to job as requested by community leadership.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
