Family Integration Specialist
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Community Care ME
Belfast, ME, US
Summary
The Family Integration Specialist provides therapeutic support to children and youth in residential or community settings to promote growth and stability. They implement individualized treatment plans and teach healthy coping skills through trauma-informed interactions.
Job Description
The Family Integration Specialist (FIS) is a key member of the treatment team, providing therapeutic support to children and youth who required specialized residential or community-based behavioral health services. Working collaboratively with foster and birth families, Case Coordinators, Program Managers, therapists, and other professionals, the FIS helps assess each child's developmental, social, emotional, and behavioral needs and supports the implementation of individualized treatment plans.
The primary responsibility of the FIS is to build safe, supportive, and therapeutic relationships that promote each child's growth, stability, and success. Through consistent, trauma-informed interactions, the FIS teaches and reinforces healthy coping skills, emotional regulation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, and positive social behaviors during everyday routines and structured therapeutic activities. The FIS creates opportunities for children to practice new skills in real-life settings while providing guidance that is consistent with each child's individualized plan of care.
The Family Integration Specialist fosters a positive therapeutic environment by modeling professionalism, respect, and empathy in every interaction with children, families, colleagues, and community partners. The FIS is expected to uphold the organization's mission, values, and treatment philosophy while contributing to a collaborative, child-centered approach to care.
Essential
Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma, reliable transportation, one year of relevant experience.
Must be able to pass background checks including DMV, CPS, APS, and Criminal checks.
We believe that people have the right to make decisions about their own lives, including whether or not to accept help. Professional support and guidance must be based on respect for individuals and recognition of their right to make choices about what kind and amount of help they want. Growth and change are incremental, and an important part of the helping process is encouraging people to reflect on how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect the quality of their experiences. The most effective care actively engages people in setting and attaining their own goals. We promote the expectation that treatment may happen in a single and relatively short span of time, over a longer term of care, or throughout a number of episodes over a person’s lifetime.
Founded
1996
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Org type
Nonprofit
We believe that people have the right to make decisions about their own lives, including whether or not to accept help. Professional support and guidance must be based on respect for individuals and recognition of their right to make choices about what kind and amount of help they want. Growth and change are incremental, and an important part of the helping process is encouraging people to reflect on how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect the quality of their experiences. The most effective care actively engages people in setting and attaining their own goals. We promote the expectation that treatment may happen in a single and relatively short span of time, over a longer term of care, or throughout a number of episodes over a person’s lifetime.
Founded
1996
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Org type
Nonprofit
