Arlington County’s Behavioral Health Bureau, Child and Family Services Division within the Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking a Family Support Partner (Bilingual) to join a dynamic and innovative team. The Bureau is responsible for providing comprehensive mental health and substance use services to help youth to function adequately in their environments and to help their families support them. Services for children and adolescents are provided in their homes, school, or community. The Family Support Partner will connect with and empower youth and their families through their own lived experience and will support individuals to achieve wellness. A Family Support Partner (FSP) uses their own lived experience providing primary caregiving for youth involved in the children's system of care (school, social services, legal system, residential placement, community and behavioral health providers, hospitalization, etc.) through strategic self-disclosure to help other families navigate the system. Services can be provided as a stand-alone service or as a part of a High-Fidelity Wraparound team. The services are strength-based, individualized, person-centered, and growth-oriented supports which assists in promoting family advocacy, resiliency, and self-determination. These services are provided to the parent/caregiver of a youth or young adult under the age of 21, who has behavioral health, developmental, and/or substance use challenges which may put them at risk of being placed out of the home, has led them to be involved in multiple child-serving agencies and/or necessary to support the youth's return home from an out of home placement. Family support services will be provided in multiple environments (primarily community-based), based on client's needs (i.e. home, school, court, community location, DHS office, etc.).
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1,001-5,000 employees