Family Counselor

Brightpoint
Any Location, IL
Category Human Resources
Job Description
Brightpoint invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.

Requirements

  • Provides crisis intervention and conflict resolution with youth and their families as necessary.
  • Provides individual and family counseling according to program model.
  • Provides comprehensive case management services to a caseload of clients which includes needs assessment, service planning, case coordination, service brokerage, linkages with community resources, and monitoring progress toward client(s) goals and objectives and makes recommendations for on-going services when necessary.
  • Establishes trusting, nurturing, therapeutic relationships with clients and their families.
  • Arranges and/or provides services needed to meet the immediate needs of client(s).
  • Assesses youth and family functioning for safety, risk and protective factors and determines appropriate interventions.
  • Formulates service plans and goals with client(s), obtains supervisory approval of the plan, and is responsible for the implementation of the plan.
  • Analyzes and evaluates progress in the service plan and modifies when necessary to meet the needs and goals of the client(s).
  • Provides psychoeducation, including positive parent-youth interactions, problem-solving, adolescent development and positive parenting.

Benefits

  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Paid time off
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Supplemental insurance options
  • 401(k) with match
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