Support Counselor for Youth and Families
Overview
Looking for a job that supports children and families in need? Join our team at Seneca Family of Agencies in our San Luis Obispo County Wraparound Program as a Support Counselor.
The Support Counselor serves children and families by providing behaviorally focused mental health services. Counselors work with youth in their environments: assisting birth/foster parents with care and supervision, maintaining a close and supportive relationship with the child’s educational placement, planning activities that encourage social development, and supporting the youth in getting access to community resources. The Support Counselor is a member of a treatment team that seeks to provide families with strengths-based, family-focused support.
ABOUT WRAPAROUND
Seneca offers intensive "Wraparound" services to children and youth at risk of placement in a high-level group home, and to their families. The Wraparound programs are strengths-based, family-driven, flexible, and creative, with the goal of helping the family develop the skills and supports to prevent or reduce the possibility of residential placement of their child. A family-based team addresses the needs of the entire family, not just the at-risk child. This family-based team consists of family members, Seneca's Care Coordinators, Family Assistants, Family Partners, and other community members who have an important role in the family,
ABOUT SENECA
Seneca Family of Agencies is a non-profit with a simple but powerful mission: to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. Since then, Seneca has expanded to provide a broad continuum of permanency, mental health, education, and juvenile justice services, which today reach over 18,000 youth and families throughout California and Washington State each year. The agency’s growth has been guided by a commitment to our Unconditional Care® model – doing whatever it takes to help children and families thrive, even when faced with tremendous challenges. Seneca is committed to supporting historically underrepresented communities and informing agency policies and practices through its agency-wide DEI Initiative and DEI Advisory Board. Our agency’s values of love and compassion, hope and courage, respect, curiosity, joy, equity and justice anchor our work across all programs, ensuring our staff leverage the cultural strengths of the families and communities we serve. Seneca is committed to fostering an agency culture that is welcoming, cooperative, and inclusive of diverse peoples and worldviews.
Responsibilities
- Assist the birth/foster parents in all aspects of care and supervision of the child as needed.
- Provide behaviorally focused mental health support services to clients and their families.
- Plan and implement individual and group activities that encourage the child’s social development.
- Complete the necessary Medi-Cal/mental health notes, written in a billable and timely manner.
- Submit incident reports and other documentation in a timely and complete manner.
- Provide supervision for visits with birth family when necessary.
- Maintain a close and supportive relationship with the child’s educational placement that may include in-classroom support and tutorial assistance.
- Participate in treatment reviews, program staff meetings, and IEP meetings when necessary.
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in social work, counseling, psychology, child development or similar field.
- Bilingual Spanish/English abilities a plus.
- Experience working with children and families, particularly providing case management.
- Experience with adoption and attachment issues of children served a plus.
- Computer skills in MS Word, Outlook and assessment or outcome measure data entry programs.
- Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and administrative skills.
- Valid California driver’s license and insurability by Seneca’s automobile insurance carrier.
- Clearance of TB test, fingerprinting clearances, and any other State/Federal licensing or
- certification requirements.
- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination
Schedule
- Full-time.
Benefits
- Starting salary $21.00 - $23.50 per hour, additional compensation provided upon passing bilingual language proficiency exam.
- Mileage reimbursement.
- 5 weeks of PTO and 11 paid holidays.
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture, and fertility coverage
- Long-term disability, family leave, and life insurance
- 50% paid premiums for dependents
- 403b retirement plan
- Employer-paid Employee Assistance Plan
- Training stipend and professional development opportunities.
- Opportunities to develop specialized skills, including clinical supervision and evidence-based practices.
- Abundant promotional opportunities across the agency in California and Washington.
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