Youth Stabilization Specialist

Seneca Family of Agencies•San Jose, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Youth Stabilization Specialist works with youth ages 0–17 at Seneca Family of Agencies’ Welcoming Center, helping ensure their safety, stability, and growth. The Welcoming Center is a home-like receiving facility in Santa Clara County that provides immediate care and therapeutic support to children and youth experiencing placement disruption, including those recently removed from their homes, returning after an elopement, or facing a sudden loss of placement. The multidisciplinary team assesses each young person’s needs and works to secure an appropriate placement. The specialist supervises youth and supports a consistent, structured routine in a home environment. The role includes implementing interventions in client treatment plans, participating in treatment planning and related meetings, documenting services and incidents, providing crisis intervention and de-escalation, and coordinating transportation. The position also participates in a scheduled rotating emergency on-call system. Work may include physical management of clients when applicable and may require training in additional crisis intervention modalities such as CPI. Seneca Family of Agencies provides mental health, community-based, and educational services, with a stated commitment to serving traditionally marginalized communities and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year of experience, or an associate degree or equivalent and at least 2 years of applicable experience.
Applicable experience may include paid or unpaid work with youth or families, or work in the social services field.
Be at least 21 years of age.
Valid driver’s license, clean driving record, and ability to be insured under Seneca Family of Agencies’ insurance policy.
TB test clearance, fingerprinting clearance, and any other required state or federal licensing or certification clearances.
Participation in a rotating emergency on-call system, scheduled ahead of time.

Responsibilities

Supervise youth and support a consistent, structured, and predictable routine in a home environment.
Participate in client treatment planning, including program meetings, child and family team (CFT) meetings, and education-related services meetings.
Implement treatment-plan interventions supporting clients’ social, emotional, and mental health wellness goals.
Complete client-related documentation, including county health plan progress notes and incident reports.
Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation support.
Coordinate and assist with transportation arrangements for school, medical care, social activities, therapy appointments, and court hearings.
Provide crisis on-call support as needed.
Participate in program staff meetings and other meetings as necessary.
Use crisis communication and de-escalation techniques according to Seneca’s Equilibrium model training; this may include physical management of clients when applicable.