Family Access and Connection Team (FACT) Facilitator – Bilingual

Description

Family Access and Connection Team (FACT) Facilitator – Bi-Lingual
Monroe County Family Access and Connection Team (FACT)
Rochester, NY – On-Site 

Full-Time Nonexempt: 40 hours
 

Put the CARE in your CAREER! 

At CCSI, our mission is to activate possibilities for our customers and employees through collaboration, compassion, equity, and imagination. For more than 30 years, CCSI has been a leading non-profit partner to local governments, schools, and community-based organizations, helping them improve their business processes so they can focus on their missions. If you’re looking for a career with purpose that creates lasting change in the community, we encourage you to apply.

We are seeking a talented Family Access and Connection Team (FACT) Facilitator – Bi-Lingual to join our team of nearly 500 employees. The Family Access and Connection Team is Monroe County’s integrated entry point to care for our community’s highest needs/highest risk children and youth, incorporating the Monroe County Office of Mental Health, Office of Probation – Community Corrections and Department of Human Services. The primary goal of the Family Access and Connection Team is to provide short term strength-based assessments and make referrals to service providers. The Bi-lingual facilitator position involves social casework responsibilities for Spanish speaking families. The Bi-lingual Family Access Facilitator plays a crucial role in the community by engaging at-risk families in exploring and evaluating their own unique needs and challenges. Through your support, intervention, and collaboration with community services, you would lead them to a healthier, more secure life.

CCSI is partnering with Monroe County Family Access and Connection Team (FACT) to hire a Family Access and Connection Team (FACT) Facilitator – Bi-Lingual. This position is employed by CCSI and working on behalf of Monroe County Family Access and Connection Team (FACT).

In this role, you will

• Manage a caseload consisting of children and families active with the Family Access and Connection Team.
• Conduct strength-based and cross system assessments on all assigned youth and families. First priority in assignment will be given to Spanish speaking families.
• Utilize Hope Science with youth and families, fully integrating Hope into goal setting and all aspects of collaboration and support. 
• Respond to crisis by phone or in person by creating a plan with the youth and family and accessing emergency services if necessary. 
• Convene and facilitate Family meetings to begin to create an individualized plan of care that is based on a family’s strengths and needs and maximize the use of informal supports and uses services only when necessary. 
• Build effective linkages and relationships with informal and community supports, child and family serving systems, schools and other formal supports.
• Provide casework services to the youth and their family to stabilize the family unit and link to appropriate supports and services.
• Make recommendations to families for programs, services, etc. and completes referrals per family’s request.  
• Complete all of the systems requirements of Monroe County Office of Mental Health, Office of Probation – Community Corrections and Department of Human Services. 
• Provide coverage for intake line and walk-in response for families initiating contact with FACT on a rotating basis.
• Conduct other activities as assigned by the FACT supervisory team.
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Requirements

What You Bring 

• Bachelor’s degree in a human services field and 2 years of related work experience or equivalent education and work      experience. (see CCSI's equivalency chart).
• Experience and interest in working with children and families.

Required for this position are:

• Bi-lingual Spanish / English.  
• Valid Class D New York State Driver License and access to motor vehicle to meet transportation requirements of position.
• Satisfactory completion of required background screenings: Criminal, Drug, Statewide Central Register, Driving, Education.
• Respect the confidential nature of all CCSI and CCSI customer information you are exposed to in the course of your work performance. Staff working directly with protected health information /electronically stored protected health information, personally identifiable information, and other patient/consumer/customer data, will abide by the spec