Functional Family Therapist
Are you passionate about evidence-based therapeutic interventions? Does the idea of providing clinical care to children and families excite you? We are looking just for you! We are seeking a full time Functional Family Therapist. For more information, please see below.
About ATLAS:
Atlas works to prevent violence by meeting people during a crisis, like a recent arrest or open court case and connecting them to a change process that nurtures hope and strengthens relationships. As part of Atlas, we are offering FFT to young people at elevated risk for violence in the community, victimization, or a re-arrest. FFT is an evidence-based intervention for youth and families. This high-quality, strength-focused family counseling model is designed for high-risk youth and young adults who have been referred by the criminal court, juvenile justice, mental health, school, or child welfare systems. Services are short-term and typically offered in the home, though services can be offered in the office or other community settings.
Address: 59 Wright Street, Staten Island, New York 10304
About the Position:
Roles and Responsibilities:
Attend all appropriate trainings and consultations for the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) model.
Provide home-based clinical treatment with adherence to the FFT model.
Conduct assessments, including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit problem behaviors within the ecological context.
Engage youth, primary caregiver, and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with FFT model Analytic Process.
Complete all progress notes, opening and closing of cases and any other reporting/case management requirements in a timely and accurate fashion. When required, submit progress reports to the court or other stakeholders.
Carry an active case load of 10 participants/families.
Participate in community engagement efforts in partnership with ATLAS, external partners, and the agency.
Attend all required trainings.
Build strong, trusting relationships with families to encourage their participation in therapy.
Address any barriers to treatment and work to ensure consistent participant involvement.
Advocate for the needs and rights of families within the service system.
Work to influence policy and practice changes that benefit families in therapy.
Participate in ongoing discussions related to the identities, social constructs, and systemic oppression of oneself and the communities we serve. Consider and assess for the impact of racial and generational trauma, systemic oppression and survival on the presence of community violence and criminality.
Other duties as assigned by the FFT Supervisor.
Qualifications
Education Preference: Master’s degree in social work (MSW), Mental Health Counseling (MHC), Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT), psychology, counseling, education, or other relevant human service profession preferred; bachelor's degree with three years of related experience also accepted.
Required Experience: 6 months minimum of delivering consistent evidence-based practice.
Preferred Experience: (* required of bachelor’s and masters’ level)
- Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
- Individual therapy with youth and adults using cognitive behavioral techniques
- Marital therapy using behaviorally based approaches
- *Behavioral therapy targeting school behavior and academic performance
- Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
Preferred Knowledge: (* required of bachelor’s and masters’ level)
- Family systems theory and application
- Social-ecological theory and application
- *Behavioral therapies theory and application
- *Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
- Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
- Child development research and its application in the treatment
- Social skills assessment and intervention
- *Basic counseling and process skills
Preferred Core Competencies:
- Ability to engage clients
- Willingness and ability to be strengths-focused
- Ability to shift to process
- Willingness to advocate for youth and family, belief in the capacity of people to grow and change
- Ability to manage stress and self-care
- Appreciation, respect, and understanding for teamwork and company systems
- Ability to maintain a high level of self-awareness
- Ability to be comfortable with cultural differences; to relate without patronizing
- Willingness to commit to empowering families to solve their own problems
- Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes
- Willingness to be flexible to work with the families when they are available to meet
Job Responsibilities:
- Carry a caseload as assigned.
- Provide virtual/home-based* Functional Family Therapy to adults and their families, adhering to model fidelity requirements. (*as post-pandemic working conditions allow)
- Actively participate as part of a therapy team, including attending weekly team and individual supervision meetings.
- Assist families by actively referring them to appropriate services and supports, and with both clinical and concrete services.
- Make case progress notes as required by FFT and regularly report to external stakeholders.
- Participate in all FFT training, supervision, and consultation activities.
Salary: $70,000 to $75,000 Annually
Benefits: 401K, Dental, Medical, Vision
Bilingual in Spanish highly desired.
EBA’s mission is to support families and strengthen communities through the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). As a ‘production company’, we focus on the implementation issues back stage so that EBPs and community-based providers can be the ‘stars’ on stage. Over the past 15 years, EBA has served multiple states and counties in the areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and behavioral health.
EBA offers a team of professionals with backgrounds in social services, juvenile justice, evidence-based programs, information technology and human resources. EBA’s interdisciplinary team brings a combined total of more than 150 years of experience in clinical services and program management related to community-based and evidence-based programs.
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