Multisystemic Therapy Caseworker I
The Children's Village
Location
New York
Salary
$30 - $33 / HOUR
Quick overview
The Caseworker assists with basic needs and establishes linkages connecting families to necessary resources to facilitate transformational change within the Multisystemic Therapy framework. This role supports the family and the treatment team by addressing the multiple behavioral and psychological determinants of serious antisocial behavior in juvenile delinquents.
Requirements summary
Minimum Qualifications
require a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Childhood Education, or a related field, along with direct clinical experience treating adolescents or family systems. The role emphasizes promoting positive behaviors in the youth’s natural environment using system strengths.
Job description
Position Overview
- MST (Multisystemic Therapy) is an adaption of standard MST that provides intensive family and community-based treatment that addresses the multiple behavioral and psychological determinants of serious antisocial behavior in juvenile delinquents and offenders across the key settings, or systems, within which youth are embedded (e.g. family, peers, school, neighborhood).
- MST strives to promote behavior change in the youth’s natural environment, using the strengths of each system to facilitate change.
- The Caseworker is a huge support to the family and team and responsible for assisting with basic needs and linkages that connect families to resources will make transformational change.
- The MST model fits well with the Children’s Village mission statement, current focus towards community-based services and family reunification and with CV values.
- The MST model promotes personal responsibility, education, work ethic, community responsibility and an intolerance of violence and prejudice.
Position Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors’ Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Childhood Education, or a related subject area of direct clinical experience in treating adolescents or family systems.
The Children’s Village does not discriminate against any employee, prospective employee or contractor because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic predisposition, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction history or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
