WORKING WITH USAt The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference As we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.IF YOU JOIN US, YOU’LL HAVE THESE GREAT BENEFITS:Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and sick daysAffordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans Tuition assistance and educational loan forgivenessFree continuing education opportunities 403(b) retirement benefits and a pensionFlexible spending accounts for health and transportation 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program Life and disability insurance Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee ABOUT THE JOBYouth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) services focuses on improving or ameliorating the significant functional impairments and sever symptomatology experienced by youth due to mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Clinical and rehabilitative interventions focuses on enhancing family functioning to foster health/wellbeing, stability and re-integration for youth who are returning home after residential treatment or in-patient hospitalization. The Youth ACT Team is a multi-disciplinary team and works together to provide family-driven, youth-guided and developmentally appropriate services to comprehensively address the needs of youth within the family, school, medical, behavioral, psychosocial and community domains. The PT Youth ACT Family Advocate works as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide treatment and support services to families and children, ages 10 to 21, who have significant behavioral health needs and who are at risk of entering, or returning home from high end services, such as inpatient settings or residential services. The role involves providing highly-individualized services focused on clinical treatment, family psycho-education and skills development. The Family Peer Advocate provides services to youth and families in their homes and communities and collaborates closely with other service providers and systems with which the family interacts. The role will require some evening availability and rotating on-call coverage. EXPERIENCE REQUIRED /LANGUAGE PREFERENCE: Bilingual/Bicultural Spanish. Knowledge of motivational interviewing family systems theory, and/or trauma-informed care. Good, strengths-based engagement and facilitation skills, as well as strong organizational skills.Prior experience working with children and families using an evidence-based model