Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (NCTSI III) - LCSW/LCPC Required

LCSW/LCPC Required

SGA provides a wide range of social services in some of Chicagoland's most challenged and consistently underserved communities, and creates long-term and community-wide change.

Description: SAMHSA’s National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) aims to improve access to trauma-informed care for children and youth affected by traumatic events.

Category III: Community Treatment and Service Centers (NCTSI-III) – deliver evidence-based and evidence-informed trauma-focused treatment and services to children, youth, and families in community settings; serve as demonstration and implementation sites for effective trauma interventions; and participate in NCTSN activities to support shared learning, quality improvement, and dissemination of best practices.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

· Provides individual and group counseling services to elementary, middle and high school students in designated Chicago Public Schools.

· Utilizes the Medicaid IM+CANS as a standardized tool to evaluate the mental health, risk behaviors, trauma exposure, and functional needs of clients requiring mental health services for integrated assessment and treatment planning.

· Establishes a mental health clinic within school settings.

· Coordinates with school staff and administration, parents, and other partners in providing clinical services and care to clients.

· Provides crisis intervention and case management services, as needed.

· Manages agency expectations for all documentation, including but not limited to case notes and client assessments, promptly.

· Develops professional partnerships with CPS school administration and behavioral health teams, and represents the agency with professionalism and integrity.

· Maintains awareness of climate, cultural and clinical issues at designated schools and provides ongoing support as needed.

· Provides individual and group therapy, peer support, case management, advocacy and referral/linkage to all clients as well as other SEL related services to elementary and high school aged students at partner school sites.

· Responsible for assessment, treatment planning, advocacy, crisis intervention, and referral/linkage services.

· Provides individual and group counseling services using evidenced based curricula as applicable.

· Provides time limited individual and group counseling with emphasis on skill building and problem resolution.

· Provides supportive school culture through classroom observations, workshops, and trainings for teachers/administration, parents and community, as applicable.

· Coordinates clinical and case management services with school staff, teachers and parents.

· Directs day to day implementation of the program at school site.

Develops working relationships with school-based staff, behavioral health teams, as well as funder representative.

Monitors school-level implementation and achievement of program deliverables and all associated reporting.

Attends required training as directed.

Develops and prepares reports, presentations and marketing materials for program.

· Manages all agency expectations for case recording, data tracking and other documentation on a timely basis.

· Commitment to the mission, goals and philosophy of the Agency.

· Performs other related duties as assigned.