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Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.

Opportunities for growth. Therapists and Counselors are supported in obtaining and maintaining clinical licensure through in-house clinical supervision and reimbursement for licensure fees. We also offer opportunities for advanced trainings in your field, which may include Play Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, Nurturing Parent Program, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and other trainings, depending on your unique interests, as well as opportunities to collaborate with other community partners to expand your professional network and increase your access to supplemental resources to benefit the kids and families you’re serving.

Work/Life balance. We know you can’t pour from an empty cup. We encourage a healthy work/life balance by keeping schedules flexible and caseloads low, with a focus on quality of engagement and services over quantity of billable hours. We offer a generous paid leave package that includes two weeks of paid vacation in the first year (increasing over your tenure to more than five weeks per year), plus two weeks of paid sick time, two additional floating holidays, eleven paid holidays, and a paid winter break between Christmas and New Year's each year.

The Choose 2 Change Therapist provides clinical services to adolescents in the Chicago Public School system aimed at reducing youth violence. Group Therapists in this revolutionary Choose 2 Change program provide trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy in individual and group settings using the SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) model, complete client assessments, develop strengths-based service plans, document services using a web-based client services platform, and coordinate service referrals with appropriate external providers. This is a primarily school-based position that includes some community-based and home-based services, and targets students who are at-risk of engaging in violence or disconnecting from their communities.

Candidate qualifications:  

• Master’s Degree in Social Work or Counseling, or a closely related field, required.
• LCPC, LCSW, or LMFT, OR eligibility for clinical licensure within 2-3 years, required.
• Experience with an evidence-based or evidence-informed treatment modality, such as SPARCS, Theraplay, the ARC framework, or other trauma-informed practice preferred.
• The ability to communicate effectively in both English and Spanish preferred.
• Valid driver's license, insurance, and a reliable vehicle required.
• Excellent relationship building and written and verbal communication skills.
• Staff are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to submit proof of their vaccination status before their start date unless they have an agency approved medical or religious exemption.  

Job details:  

• Compensation:  Range starts at $50,000 for licensure eligible Therapists and $56,000 for LCPC/LCSW Therapists. Offers are commensurate with experience and bilingual candidates receive additional financial compensation.
• Benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, 3+ weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure); 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here).
• Clinical licensure: Therapists receive weekly clinical supervision, and reimbursement of clinical exam registration fees.
• Location: Hybrid (school-based/office-based/remote). Therapy services provided in Chicago schools or at assigned agency office (5958 S. Marshfield Ave.), or via telehealth. Therapists may work from the office or a remote/home location between client visits.
• Schedule:  Full-time, salaried; general business hours with some flexibility for evening appointments as needed to accommodate client schedules.
• Student Loan Forgiveness: Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). 

Where you work matters. 

We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.) 

We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.  
 

Click here to review our agency’s Blueprint for Impact. 
 

Brightpoint is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action.  All employment activities are conducted in an equal and equitable fashion. The Agency prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, veteran status, source of income, and any other legally protected category in the recruitment, selection, hiring, determination of salary level and benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.  

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