Bilingual Case Manager

The Case Manager has overall responsibility for all aspects of ensuring counseling, support and education interventions are being provided to the Power Project youth, utilizing the aspects of case management (planning, coordinating, monitoring). The Case Manager represents the Agency in recruiting and acceptance of referrals for programs, and serves as a liaison to a variety of community and public agencies. The Case Manager represents Together For Youth at all times and fully embraces and models Together For Youth's mission and values, agency's goals and objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assures that health and safety risks in families are identified, controlled, or removed and helps ensure that the treatment and clinical needs of families are appropriately addressed.
• Assumes responsibility for managing and reducing risk within assigned areas; reports risks that fall outside of those areas or require additional support.
• Demonstrates the ability to work effectively with culturally and economically diverse populations.
• Assists in providing safe, secure, and structured onsite activities for youth, with an emphasis on runaway prevention and substance use reduction.
• Meets with families in their communities, based on their availability, to support goals aimed at stabilizing youth within the home.Provides case management, advocacy, and crisis intervention.
• Assists youth and families in accessing needed services, community supports, advocacy groups, and appropriate educational opportunities.Teaches parents strategies for effectively working with their child during the program and beyond.
• Facilitates parent support groups and collaborates as part of a team with the Substance Abuse Counselor and Peer Mentor.
• Conducts assessments and participates in treatment planning and processes referrals in a timely and accurate manner.
• Monitors overall service provision to youth and families in the program.
• Ensures the completion and implementation of the required Comprehensive Strength-Based Treatment Assessment and Discharge Plan for each child and family.
• Supports the development of independent living skills, as needed.
• Serves as a program liaison to community support networks, including schools, recreational programs, after-school programs, mental health providers, and medical services.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in social work or a related human services discipline required.
• 1 year experience working with complex psychological, emotional disturbances and behavioral needs youth/adolescents and their families and maintain therapeutic relationships with youth and families.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with entitlements (e.g., SSI, Medicaid), Board of Education placements, housing systems, family court, and the juvenile justice system, particularly within the Bronx community strongly preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English required.
• Strong communication, assessment, and writing skills.
• Experience providing both group and individual counseling.
• Experience conducting meetings and training with families.
• Demonstrated proficiency in computer use and data entry.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and work collaboratively within a multi-service agency.
• Ability to work effectively with culturally and economically diverse populations.
• Valid New York State driver's license is preferred; ability to use public transportation throughout New York City is required.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Together for Youth is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where diversity is valued and recognized as a source of strength and enrichment. We seek to attract talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures.

As a federal contractor, Together for Youth will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)