Family Support Specialist (FSS)

Assistance Plus•Canaan, ME

7d•$19 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

The Family Support Specialist (FSS) works with the behavioral health home team to help ensure well-coordinated and integrated care for youth and families. The FSS provides leadership and technical assistance in developing and implementing BHHO family support services. Sharing personal experiences with families, coworkers, and community providers is essential to the role. The FSS must have at least three years of lived experience parenting or serving in a parenting role—as a biological parent or caregiver, foster parent, or grandparent—with at least one child or youth who lived with them for three or more years and had emotional, developmental, behavioral, substance use, or mental health concerns. The FSS must be able and willing to articulate those experiences and have at least three years of experience navigating child-serving systems of care on behalf of that child, such as children’s behavioral health, child welfare, special education, or juvenile justice.

Requirements

At least three years of lived experience parenting or serving in a parenting role with a child or youth who lived with the applicant for at least three years and had emotional, developmental, behavioral, substance use, or mental health concerns.
At least three years of lived experience navigating child-serving systems of care on behalf of that child or youth, such as children’s behavioral health, child welfare, special education, or juvenile justice.
Ability and willingness to articulate lived experiences.
Valid Maine driver’s license.
Proof of vehicle insurance at $50,000/$100,000.
At least 18 years of age.
Entry-level computer skills.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Parent/Family Peer certification or provisional certification.

Responsibilities

Work with the behavioral health home team to support well-coordinated and integrated care for youth and families.
Provide leadership and technical assistance in developing and implementing BHHO family support services.
Share lived experiences with families, coworkers, and community providers.
Navigate child-serving systems of care on behalf of a child or youth.