HSPRS Therapist

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate HSPRS Therapist to join our team at Everstand. As a Therapist, you will work with recently migrated children, adolescents, and their families, providing community-based intensive case management services.

The HSPRS Therapist will be responsible for applying their clinical expertise to provide strengths-based, culturally and linguistically appropriate intensive case management services. This includes conducting in-home assessments, providing weekly in-person contacts, and delivering short-term brief clinical interventions to assist youth and families in skills development, healthy communication, and strengthening internal and external resources and supports.

• Conduct in-home assessments to identify priorities and trends to inform psychoeducational sessions
• Provide weekly in-person contacts to support youth and families in their community
• Deliver short-term brief clinical interventions to assist youth and families in skills development, healthy communication, and strengthening internal and external resources and supports
• Collaborate with youth, family, and PRS case management team to develop, establish, and update individualized service plans
• Monitor youth and sponsor family progress towards goal completion
• Coordinate internally with the PRS case management team to accept referrals of youth receiving Level 1 or 2 services that would benefit from more intensive, Level 3 services
• Coordinate referrals and address barriers in relevant service need areas such as legal, education, medical, and mental health
• Support youth and sponsor family with enrollment and access to services in the community
• Support youth and sponsor family through the identification of options for youth programming, services/activities that promote a healthy connection to the new community, reflect interests, skills, and talents of the youth, and promote a connection to their culture and traditions
• Conduct outreach and education to community service providers to supplement existing services that do not adequately address the unique needs of the youth and families
• Advocate for the youth and sponsor family in order to address barriers to accessing resources and to support them in navigating complex systems (child welfare, immigration court, etc.)
• Provide in-person support to youth and sponsor family as they navigate stressful and/or traumatic experiences
• Create and revise safety and crisis response plans with youth and their family, ensuring awareness of available 24-hour and crisis response hotlines
• Establish collaborative relationships with local and federal social support and child welfare organizations, including but not limited to Child Protection Services, Trafficking Victims Assistance Program, law enforcement, and behavioral healthcare providers

• Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Counseling, or other relevant behavioral science in which direct clinical experience is a program requirement or; Bachelor's degree in one of the above categories with at least five years of clinical experience from an accredited college or University
• Current LMSW, LGPC, LCSW-C, LCPC, LGMFT, LCMFT, or eligible for licensure at the time of application
• Fluent in both English and Spanish

• Experience working with diverse populations, including refugee and/or unaccompanied immigrant children and adolescents
• One year experience providing direct services to youth and families
• One year experience delivering community-based and/or in-home services

• Spanish-speaking and reading are a must. We accept candidates who have varying degrees of fluency. For this position, really being comfortable at the conversational level is key, as you're welcoming new kids into the program and providing an orientation to the program in Spanish. Our recruitment team can talk to you about this.
• Everstand is OK with applicants for whom English is a second language, however, please note that documentation of notes and all competency-based exams (e.g. First Aid and CPR class) are in English.