Youth Behavorial Health Liason

2 months ago


Saint Louis, United States Peoples Family of Corporations Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job: Youth Behavioral Health Liaison (YBHL)

Role and Responsibilities:

The Youth Behavioral Health Liaison (YBHL) is responsible for the coordination of services for youth and families with behavioral health needs who have frequent contact with Children’s Division, Juvenile and Family Courts, law enforcement, and inpatient hospitals. YBLS will function as service connectors for youth with co-occurring mental illness, substance use and/or developmental disability to link youth to services available through community partners. The YBHL is a part of a person-centered integration team and works with local systems to coordinate care for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises.

Essential Functions:

1. Establish ongoing relationships with schools, juvenile offices, courts, and Children’s Division.

2. Coordinates services with local systems of care for children/youth with behavioral health needs.

3. Coordinate and access appropriate resources within the crisis continuum

4. Participate on local Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) or other initiatives which assist law enforcement in working with individuals with behavioral health needs.

5. Attend monthly conference calls, webinars, and face to face meetings/trainings.

6. Attend all quarterly YBHL meetings coordinated by Missouri Behavior Health Council and the mandatory documentation.

7. Complete all mandatory documentation.

8. Act as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

9. Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience:

  1. An individual with a bachelor’s degree in a human services field including, but not limited to, social work, psychology, nursing, education, criminal justice, recreational therapy, human development, and family sciences, counseling, child development, gerontology, sociology, human services, behavioral science and rehabilitation counseling.

  1. An individual with any four (4) year combination of higher education and qualifying experience.

  1. An individual with an Associate of Applied Science in Behavioral Health Support degree from an approved institution; or

  1. An individual with four (4) years of qualifying experience.

Core Competencies and skills of all YBHLs include, but not limited to:

  1. Maintain professional, “champion” behavior
  2. Provides quality customer service
  3. Provides services with a commitment to service excellence
  4. Works in a way that exhibits a commitment to personal excellence
  5. Team oriented and values diversity
  6. Collaborative relationships
  7. Conflict resolution
  8. Creative and strategic thinking
  9. Decision making/problem solving
  10. Empowers others
  11. Flexible thinking
  12. Organizational and time management
  13. Teamwork

People's Health Centers Family of Companies does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.




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