Lincoln Families is a workplace that is committed to strengths-based, culturally responsive, attachment-centered, and trauma-informed care.

POSITION: Community Liaison

PROGRAM: Project Permanence

SALARY: $54,000

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The Lincoln Families’ Project Permanence program provides supports for youth to stay in their community with their families and prevent out of home placement. Our staff deliver intensive culturally responsive, trauma-informed home-based supports through four phases of service:

• Family Engagement: Identifying the family’s strengths and cultural experiences to determine together specific community support needs;
• Goal Setting: Working together to develop and implement an individualized plan of care designed to meet the goals set by the youth and family;
• Plan Implementation: Supporting the family in driving their plan and effectively meeting their goals;
• Transition: Celebrating the family’s success and strengthening links to identified community supports for sustained stability and permanence.

Youth who have been in foster care, the juvenile justice system – or both – typically face great challenges as they transition back to their families. Many have experienced trauma and have been completely removed from family and their community, which has a significant impact on their ability to trust and have healthy relationships. Repairing and building relationships within the family and community is critical to well-being and a successful transition to a stable and permanent family environment.

POSITION SUMMARY: Reporting to the Community Liaison Supervisor, team with Clinician, Family Partner, and family to develop a wraparound plan to support children and youth on probation or in the foster care system to live in the least restrictive environment possible and to address child’s social, recreational, spiritual, and life-skill development. Provides one to one support to youth in the community, home and school setting. Follows interventions established on client’s treatment and wraparound plan when meeting with individual clients. Complete necessary documentation as required by Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Service.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Provide services based on the Wraparound Philosophy of Treatment
• Collaborate with the team’s Family Partner and Clinician to assess client needs utilizing a strength–based perspective
• Work with client, caregiver, community supports, family partner, and clinician to create goals to support youth in obtaining a stable permanent placement
• Implement the goals set by the Family Team
• Provide Individual Rehab Services to children and youth with the purpose of helping them meet their treatment goals

POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Experience with children, including experience in clinical interventions, setting limits, and crisis intervention. Six months experience providing wrap-around or other community-based collaborative services to children and their families, including participation in Child and Family Teams. Demonstrated awareness of, sensitivity to and competence in dealing with cultural and socioeconomic diversity of client population. The willingness and the ability to be trained, using our therapeutic and relationship-building philosophy that includes Collaborative Problem-Solving, Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI), and SAFE Environments training programs

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred; high school diploma (or equivalent) required.
• Physical fitness with the ability to bend, stoops, kneel, drop to one knee and get back up.
• Must meet eligibility requirements to bill for Medi-Cal services.
• Valid California driver’s license, a satisfactory driving record, availability of personal vehicle and personal vehicle insurance coverage.

WHY JOIN LINCOLN FAMILIES:

• Salary: $54,000 ($26.00 per hour)
  • Bilingual Skills: Up to an additional $2.50 per hour (contingent upon results of language proficiency test)
• Time Off: 6 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO); 11 Holidays (including 1 flexible holiday)
• Benefits: medical, dental and vision with 90-95% employer subsidy for employee premiums; we also offer 50% for dependents. Additional Benefits include flexible spending accounts (FSA), life insurance, disability insurance, commuter benefits, retirement & pension plans.
• Equity at Lincoln Families: we currently have an Employee Equity Council, a Management Equity Team and staff-run Affinity Groups. Lincoln Families also advocates regarding immigrant needs, housing stability & reimagining public safety.
• Wellness: Lincoln Families encourages and supports wellness for all employees so that staff are able to sustain themselves in this work and better serve our families. Staff create self-care plans and receive funding they can use each year towards those plans. Employees also have 1-3 hours of paid time per week for wellness activities.
• Professional Development/Training: Each year, employees can be reimbursed for expenses related professional licensing and other fees, as well as for professional development opportunities. Employees who have been at Lincoln Families for one year are also eligible to participate in advanced training series.
• Student Loan Forgiveness: We are a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit approved site. By working with Lincoln Families, staff are eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Top Bay Area Workplace 2021, 2022 and 2023