Company Overview

Community Solutions Inc. (CSI) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the responsible citizenship, accountability, and well-being of individuals and families involved, or at risk of involvement, in the child welfare, juvenile justice, or criminal justice system. Since CSIs founding in 1962, it has been a pioneer in the community-based service. We have been delivering supervision, treatment, and comprehensive individualized services to help clients interact more effectively in their communities and become productive citizens. Using this plan we built the first ever halfway house in New England which has now been replicated and grown to almost 50 programs in 9 states. For over 50 years, CSI has been building upon its successful foundations and has been expanding its services to serve thousands of adults, youth, and families each year.

CSI understands clients and staff have been impacted by trauma. CSI is becoming a trauma-informed organization by hiring individuals with existing experience in trauma-informed practices as well as supporting ongoing staff development with trauma-informed practices. This will include learning to recognize symptoms of trauma and how to respond, through training starting at orientation and throughout their career at CSI. CSI is committed to systematically evaluating the integration of the trauma-informed values of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment at all levels of the organization's policies, procedures, and structures to guard against the possibility of re-traumatization.

Program Overview

CSI is in need of an experienced Full Time-Clinician with experience working with adolescent females. Lisa's House is located in Plainville, CT. At Lisa's House, youth will find an array of comprehensive, client-specific treatment, services and interventions to help with emotional regulation, empowering adolescent females on decision-making and building healthy relationships, and boosting educational functioning. This will be accomplished through the implementation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). The Clinician is responsible for the screening, assessment, individual, family, and group therapy to support girls' mental health recovery and stability. They will work collaboratively with program leadership to establish a program culture that actively supports the girls in achieving goals set forth in their individualized treatment plans. The Clinician regularly collaborates with the program and agency leadership team, families, schools, DCF Social Workers, Probation Officers, and others as appropriate. The Clinician will engage with Case Managers to develop and facilitate discharge planning, and work collaboratively with community supports to ensure successful community reengagement. The selected candidate will ensure that the tenets of strengths-based, relational, trauma-informed, gender responsive and culturally competent approaches are maintained within the program and services offered, and will perform all related duties assigned by the Program Director.

Starting Salary: $65,000 annually

Schedules Available:

• 40 Hours - Flexible

Position Overview

• Leads the development of a therapeutic milieu;
• Offers consultation to staff regarding the use of creative approaches to dealing with challenging behaviors, accessing supportive services, and clinical care;
• Maintains caseload of 4-5 girls and facilitates duties related to intake, screening and assessment, DBT clinical treatment, and service and discharge planning with a focus on successful reintegration with the family
• Provides psychotropic medication education to youth and families (in conjunction with Psychiatrist/APRN);
• Assists in the development and implementation of program monitoring, evaluation and research;
• Completes all documentation and maintains client files to ensure all records align with required standards;
• Completes incident reports as required;
• Completes weekly progress notes;
• Collaborates with program leaders to provide guidance and direction to program staff and works with them to identify any gaps in services and areas in need of improvement;
• Ensures that strengths based, gender responsive, relational, trauma informed, and culturally competent approaches are sustained in the program and services offered;
• Perform additional, related tasks as assigned

Qualifications

• A Master's Degree is required, with experience working with adolescent females
• Trauma-treatment knowledge and service experience preferred; DBT certified and/or experience preferred
• Possess knowledge of and adherence to standards of confidentiality, and if applicable Department of Public Health, DCF, Medicare/Medicaid and Managed Care
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills desired
• Experience with Microsoft Office

Additional Benefits

• Two (2) weeks' vacation accrued within the first year, bumped to three (3) weeks accrual after 1 year of service.
• Sick time (7 days accrual basis), floating holiday time (4 days/year).
• Medical and Dental plans.
• Voluntary plan options for: Vision, FSA, voluntary STD, Accident, Hospital, Life insurance and AD&D.
• 401(k) Retirement savings plan with automatic enrollment and a company match of 100% up to 4% of your contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement after 1 year service.
• Ongoing training.

CSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - M/F/Disability/Vet. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.