CSO is looking for a Therapeutic Mentor/Therapeutic Training and Support Specialist for our Family Support Services team.

Looking for a rewarding opportunity to better the lives of children and families in your community?

Join our team of dedicated professionals in our Family Support Services Program. Provide community-based direct care services to children and families. The main focus of these services is to alleviate the youth's mental health issues and strengthen the family structures and supports. 

Therapeutic Mentoring offers structured, one-to-one, strength-based support services between a therapeutic mentor and a youth for the purpose of addressing daily living, social, and communication needs. Therapeutic Mentoring services include supporting, coaching, and training the youth in age-appropriate behaviors, interpersonal communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution, and relating appropriately to other children and adolescents, as well as adults, in recreational and social activities pursuant to a behavioral health treatment plan.

These services help to ensure the youth's success in navigating various social contexts, learning new skills and making functional progress, while the Therapeutic Mentor offers supervision of these interactions and engages the youth in discussions about strategies for effective handling of peer interactions.

The Therapeutic Mentoring provider engages the youth in activities in the community. These activities meet one or more of the following purposes:

• Provision of anticipatory guidance
• Teaching of alternative strategies
• Role playing
• Behavioral rehearsal
• Skill acquisition in the community
• Practicing skills in the community
• Exposure to social situations in which age-appropriate skills can be practiced
• Enhancing conflict resolution skills
• Developing communication skill
• Therapeutic Mentoring interventions are designed to address one or more goals on a youth's existing Treatment Plan and are provided while engaging the youth in the following types of activities:
• Social activities
• Recreational activities
• Athletic activities
• Artistic or creative activities
• Educational or vocational activities
• Activities of daily living based in the community (e.g., taking public transportation, applying for a job, etc.).

Therapeutic Training and Support (TT&S) is a member of the In-Home Therapy (IHT) Team. TT&S is a service provided by a qualified paraprofessional working under the supervision of a clinician to support implementation of the clinician's treatment plan to assist the youth and family in achieving the goals of that plan. The paraprofessional assists the clinician in implementing the therapeutic objectives of the treatment plan designed to address the youth's mental health, behavioral, and emotional needs. This service includes teaching the youth to understand, direct, interpret, manage, and control feelings and emotional responses to situations and to assist the family to address the youth's emotional and mental health needs.

Qualifications

Must be 21 or older and have a Bachelor's degree in a human services field plus one year of experience working with children/adolescents/transition age youth. Or, have an Associate's degree plus two years of experience working with the target population. 

Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply, (English/Spanish speaking.)

Benefits

We provide our employees with competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including full coverage health and dental insurance and ample paid time off (vacation, personal, sick, and holidays). Additionally, we offer a 403B retirement savings plan, an employee referral bonus program, regular in-house training and professional development opportunities with free CEUs, and voluntary supplemental insurances at group rates, including short and long-term disability, cancer, accident and life. We also offer a premier employee assistance program (EAP) and personal cell phone plan discounts. Our work environment is flexible and supportive, with ample opportunities for collaboration within and across departments, programs and locations. 

Our Agency

Clinical & Support Options, Inc. is a behavioral health organization serving individuals and families across Western Massachusetts. From our early days as a child guidance clinic, we have expanded into a full service behavioral health agency, committed internally to excellence while we collaborate externally with community partners to participate in a comprehensive system of assistance and resources for the residents of our communities. We employ over 650 multi-disciplinary staff, helping thousands of families over the past 50 years. We have community based office locations throughout Western Massachusetts, including Springfield, Northampton, Greenfield, Orange, Athol, Gardner and Pittsfield.

Our expertise, in a nutshell, is to support people in their progress towards self-sufficiency, no matter what challenges they face on that journey. EOE/AA