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CPST services must be part of the treatment plan, which includes goals and activities necessary to correct or ameliorate conditions discovered during the initial assessment visits.

CPST is a face- to-face intervention with the child / youth (required), family / caregiver or other collateral supports.

This is a multi-component service that consists of therapeutic interventions such as counseling, as well as functional supports.

Activities provided under CPST are intended to assist the child / youth and family / caregivers to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery and / or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships in school and community integration.

The family / caregivers, therefore, is expected to have an integral role in the support and treatment of the child / youth’s behavioral health need.

CPST is designed to provide community-based services to children and families who may have difficulty engaging in formal office settings, but can benefit from home and / or community based rehabilitative services.

CPST allows for delivery of services within a variety of permissible settings including, but not limited to, community locations where the child / youth lives, works, attends school, engages in services, and / or socializes.

CPST is also a service which is easily complimented by the integration of additional CFTS services.. Services are delivered in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner.

Provide youth and family with the following :

• Intensive Interventions (Counseling)
• Individual, family and relationship based counseling, supportive counseling, solution-focused interventions, emotional and behavioral management, and problem behavior analysis with the individual, with the goal of developing and implementing social, interpersonal, self-care and independent living skills to restore stability, to support functional gains and to adapt to community living.

These interventions engage the child / youth and family / caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the child’s / youth’s treatment plan.

• Crisis Avoidance (Counseling)
• Assisting the child / youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that would risk their remaining in a natural community location, including assisting the child / youth and family members or other collaterals with identifying a potential psychiatric or personal crisis, developing a crisis management plan and / or, as appropriate, seeking other supports to restore stability and functioning.

It is an intervention to assist the child and family in developing the capacity to prevent a crisis episode or the capacity to reduce the severity of a crisis episode should one occur.

• Intermediate Term Crisis Management (Counseling)
• Assisting families following a crisis episode experienced by a child / family as stated in the crisis management plan. This component is intended to be stability focused and relationship based for existing children / youth receiving CPST services.

It is also intended for children in need of longer term crisis management services after having received a crisis intervention service such as, mobile crisis or ER.

The purpose of this activity is to :

• Stabilize the child / youth in the home and natural environment
• Assist with goal setting to focus on the issues identified from mobile crisis or emergency room intervention, and other referral sources.

Rehabilitative Psychoeducation :

Educating the child / youth and family members or other collaterals to identify strategies or treatment options with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of symptoms, or emotional disturbances, substance use or associated environmental stressors which interfere with the child / youth’s daily living, financial management, housing, academic and / or employment progress, personal recovery or resilience, family and / or interpersonal relationships and community integration.

Strengths Based Service Planning :

Assisting the child / youth and family members or other collaterals with identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness.

Rehabilitative Supports :

Restoration, rehabilitation, and support to minimize the negative effects of behavioral health symptoms or emotional disturbances that interfere with the child youth’s daily functioning.

This may include improving life safety skills such as ability to access emergency services, basic safety practices and evacuation, physical and behavioral health care (maintenance, scheduling physician appointments), recognizing when to contact a physician or seek information from the appropriate provider to understand the purpose and possible side effects of medication prescribed for conditions.

OTHER RESPONSIBLITIES :

• Conduct individual and group home / community visits.
• Demonstrate knowledge of childhood psychiatric disorders.
• Demonstrate cultural competency, family driven, youth guided, strength based and trauma informed care.
• Closely collaborate with the youth’s OLP, PSR, and / or third party psychiatric treatment providers.
• Complete progress notes for each visit and phone call within 24 hours as it relates to treatment plan goals utilizing an Electronic Health Record.
• Develop and implement client’s treatment plan goals utilizing an Electronic Health Record.
• Remaining aware and in compliance with allowable billable visit times (minimum of 15 min up to 1.5 hour day for individual billing and minimum of 15 min up to 1 hour for group billing ).
• Lead groups for youth who receive CPST, as scheduled and complying with 1 : 4 ratio.
• Complete the Mandated Reporter Training
• Adhere to all confidentiality laws and guidelines.
• Track all paperwork due dates and submit by assigned deadlines.
• Recognize and report suspected and known child abuse.
• Report any potential youth high risk behaviors / concerns to supervisor.
• Maintain awareness of any incident reporting guidelines.
• Schedule client visits and monitor weekly Direct Service Units
• End each quarter at a minimum of 50% direct service units of hours worked, as well as end with an overall Annual percentage of at least 50% DSU.
• Participate in supervisions as scheduled.
• Submit weekly schedule to Supervisor (any changes to schedule must be reported to Supervisor as they occur).
• Utilize Paycom to indicate accurate hours worked.
• Track and submit mileage.
• Participate in Division-wide trainings, staff events and program meeting.
• Attend workshops, conferences, OMH trainings, etc.
• Transport youth with agency vehicle and personal vehicle, as needed.
• Responsible for having access to a personal vehicle throughout the course of the work day.
• Submission of auto insurance policy before expiration date.
• Adhere to protocols of agency Safety Policy.
• Attendance and participation at the Family Bonds Retreat Weekend.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications :

Master’s degree in social work, psychology, or in related human services preferred, plus one year of applicable experience or who have been certified in an Evidenced Based Practice (in lieu of one year experience requirement).

These practitioners may also include : Registered Professional Nurses with one year of behavioral health experience, Licensed Occupational Therapists, and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists to the extent they are operating under the scope of their license.

About WellLife Network :

ABOUT US : Since 1980, WellLife Network, has been meeting the growing challenges of individuals with intellectual / developmental disabilities and mental illness.

Our multidisciplinary approach and centralized referral process help to ensure that each person we serve receives the appropriate range of services and level of care, with an individual treatment plan, coordinated by highly competent and supportive case management professionals.

In its early years, WellLife Network operated and maintained community residential facilities for people with developmental disabilities and mental illness, and provided programs of care, service, habilitation, rehabilitation, and social and recreational activities, in a home-like environment.

Partnerships Make It Happen For almost four decades, WellLife Network has changed, evolved, and expanded, while remaining true to its mission of meeting the diverse needs of New York communities, businesses, and society and assisting those we serve to achieve greater personal and economic independence.

WellLife Network has a long and valued tradition of working in partnership with the government, the business community, private philanthropy, and our colleagues in the nonprofit sector to offer proactive responses to society’s social and economic challenges.

Since its founding, the WellLife Network culture has been marked by program growth and organizational development. A Network of Services - A Culture of Caring and Best Practices Today, with an annual operating budget of $100 million, a workforce of 1,800 staff, interns, and volunteers, and an affiliate subsidiary company, WellLife Network delivers critical services in the areas of behavioral health, intellectual / developmental disabilities, housing, co-occurring substance abuse behaviors, family support, vocational training, and care management.

These services meet the pressing needs of more than 25,000 individuals and families annually, some 2,000 New Yorkers every single day.

A culture of caring, best practices models, a spirit of innovation, and a commitment to measuring results and producing high returns on investment drive our work.

A key element to our successful growth is our focus on technology, financial viability, and quality assurance critical infrastructure supports that enable WellLife Network to deliver services with cost-efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, and accountability in a manner that mirrors the standards of high-performing business enterprises.

Last updated : 2024-05-06