Care Coord / Intensive Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

• Perform outreach & engagement to locate, engage, and educate Pathways youth and their families.
• Using a trauma-informed approach and effectively engaging children / youth with significant behavioral health needs and their family / caregivers to resources within the community for their assigned caseload
• Provide intensive care coordination : utilize a strengths-based approach to safety planning, development of family team and family support systems, and wraparound planning for the purpose of maintaining children in their homes, schools, and communities.
• Schedule, plan and facilitate Child & Family Team Meetings
• Builds and maintains knowledge of available community resources and helps to link youth and family to needed supports.
• Provide regular communication and close collaboration with multiple community partners.
• Using a system of care approach, assist families to coordinate services from community resources, placement providers, collateral agencies, the court, and / or other community partners with families, clients, or patients receiving services.
• Facilitate the creation of safety and crisis prevention plans.
• Collaborate with local MCR agencies (including Ada S. McKinley’s MCR team) when necessary.
• Enact Ada S. McKinley Care Coordination Model with each individual and family.
• Facilitate the application process and obtain consents for SFSP / FSP for eligible youth and their families.
• Provide care coordination services to SFSP / FSP eligible youth and their families.
• Completes service documentation in alignment with agency and program core performance standards.

Requirments

Master's in counseling psychology or related field.

One year of clinical experience under a Licensed Qualified Mental Health Professional, including QMHP physician's, licensed clinical psychologists, or registered nurses licensed under the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 with at least one year of clinical experience in a mental health setting.

Spanish and / or Cantonese perferred.

Fulltime Role

Compensation

50,000 to 55,000 Annually

Benefits

Benefit options and eligibility vary by Fulltime and Part-time positions. Compensation within the posted salary range varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and performance at the time of the offe