Community Based Intervention Specialist at Betty Hardwick Center – Abilene, Texas

The Community Based Intervention Specialist is committed to empowering youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends. Therapists will work in close collaboration with all involved to address the needs of youth who engage in problematic and criminal behaviors and, in some cases, substance abuse.

Therapists will empower families to address problematic behaviors and to help their youth ages 12 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as changing unhelpful family interactions, addressing the youth’s problems with peers and in school, and increasing social support, etc.

Monday-Friday, variable hours; will require after hours and weekend work as needed

Preferred Experience:

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies

• Working with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques

• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)

• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies

• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required; Masters degree preferred.

• Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once. Driving is an essential function and employees must maintain an acceptable driving record/insurability while employed.

• Must live within a 30 – 45 minute travel time from the designated service area.

Will be eligible for a one- and two-year increase, depending on satisfactory performance.