CASAC

About Graham Windham

Graham provides life-changing tools and resources for children, young adults, and families who face some of the most difficult obstacles caused by poverty, racial injustice, and lack of access to educational opportunities, living wage employment, quality healthcare, and affordable housing.

We collaborate with communities and strong partners to create and implement innovative strategies so everyone can lead healthy, joyful, and successful lives.

About the Program

The Family Treatment/ Rehabilitation Program (FTR) located in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan offers intensive preventive case management services to families at risk of removal of children to foster care due to neglect and abuse. Risk factors for families served by the FTR program are sometimes advanced as a result of caretakers’ drug use and/ or mental illness. The stressors of poverty, substance use, instability and criminal justice involvement, parental depression, family stress, substance use, or domestic violence can greatly compromise a parent’s capacity to care for her children, despite strong desires to be engaged. Using Solution Based Casework, we actively work with parents to help them develop a more active, consistent and productive role in their child’s educational and social development; we encourage families to build connections with positive supports in their community who will help them sustain their progress. Our goal is to partner with families to keep them together while ensuring that children will be safely cared for.

About the Position

We have 2 CASAC openings. One at our Harlem location and one at our Bronx location.

The CASAC will provide assessments of client substance abuse disorders and use an eclectic approach of engagement and service delivery. The CASAC will also support the case planning staff in the implementation of case specific goals of families; will be part of a multi-method program and has a consistent strong approach to partnering with families to promote the safety and wellbeing of all children; ensure that our families and staff have access to high-quality resources to meet their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• provide case management, substance abuse counseling, and advocacy services
• participate as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team to facilitate the client recovery and rehabilitation processes
• Refer and broker targeted interventions as needed for families and contribute to the healthy integrity of the program’s therapeutic environment
• Provides consultation to case planners regarding families who struggle with substance abuse
• Participate in all Clinical Diagnostic Team (CDT) meetings.
• Conducts intakes including psychosocial history, makes clinical assessment and designs individual treatment plans
• Coordinates consumer treatment with other community-based organizations as indicated
• Establishes professional and therapeutic relationship and serves as a positive role model
• Provides individual psychotherapy, group and/or family therapy as indicated
• Maintains case records, updates treatment plans, writes progress notes and psychosocial histories
• Prepares required reports
• Performs other duties as requested or assigned

Salary & Compensation:

• Salary: $61,802 to $64,802/annually Potential to Earn Performance Based Merit Award for Eligible Staff Comprehensive Benefits Professional Development Opportunities.
• FLSA Status: Non-exempt, position is eligible for overtime.
• Benefits Eligibility: Graham Windham offers eligible employees a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental & vision coverage, paid time off, holiday pay, retirement savings plans (defined contribution pension and 403 (b) thrift), and much more… https://www.graham-windham.org/careers/about-our-benefits/

EEO Statement

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Graham Windham (GW) is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. GW hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Graham Windham believes that associates should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

Qualifications:

• CASAC or CASAC T certification with MSW and a minimum of three years of
  experience working with adolescents/children and parents/caretakers with
  substance abuse preferred, or CASAC or CASAC T certification with a BSW and
  minimum of five years of experience working with adolescents/children with
  substance abuse
• Must possess excellent assessment skills
• Experience providing CASAC assessments to adults and adolescents
• Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills, both oral and written
• Passion for children and families and a strong connection to the community
• Spanish highly preferred