Job Code: ESSS01

Summary
Provide support to Emergency Services personnel on overnights, assuring a safe and supportive atmosphere at all times. The candidate for this position will use physical intervention only as the last resort. This is an overnight awake position.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a safety/security position.
• Training in CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) or be willing to attend a minimum of 12 hours of training in CPI.
• Must be willing to attend any additional training (i.e. CPR, First Aid, Universal Precautions, etc.).
• Excellent interpersonal skills that will enhance the individual’s ability to intervene in situations and avoid any need for physical intervention.

Essential Job Requirements

• Maintain regular and timely attendance.
• Have the ability to move readily from task to task.
• Possess excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Promote high staff morale and team atmosphere with the department.
• Possess a valid driver’s license.
• Adhere to the agency’s policy regarding confidentiality.
• Adhere to all policies set forth in the Employee Manual.
• Maintain a positive attitude.
• Have a commitment to the agency’s philosophy and the ability to translate it to others.
• Ability to move quickly in responding to emergencies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a secure workplace incorporating a positive approach to working with staff and public.
• Follow the lead of clinicians, working with them to assure that escalation of situations is avoided at all times.
• Whenever possible, interact with patrons to develop a comfortable and mutually respectful relationship.

Other Requirements

• Maintain a high quality of work at all times.
• Maintain a positive working relationship with agency staff, supervisors, and community contacts.
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism.
• Participate in independent education and training opportunities.
• Participate in meetings as requested.

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Since 2006, the annual golf event has raised a total of $604,620.00! The success is due to the hardworking golf committee led by Anthony Cordeiro, who has been the driving force behind this golf tournament since the beginning. Mr. Cordeiro is the agency’s Board President and one of the partners of Commonwealth Landing, the $10,000 corporate sponsor for this event, which includes Larry Couto and Alan Macomber.

“We wanted to put on a top-notch, first-class event that could benefit Child & Family Services,” stated Mr. Cordeiro. “Our goal is to give the participants a great day full of entertainment, golf and food and at the end of the day, raise some serious money for a worthy cause.” This year, Rene Rancourt, who has sung “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the opening of Bruins games for nearly 30 years, will be meeting and greeting our guests.

The charity golf event would not be possible without the support of the community and local businesses. A few spots are still available for foursomes. Sponsorship opportunities are also available including Refreshment, Entertainment, Flag and 19th Hole Sponsors. These are excellent opportunities for businesses to receive great publicity. Funds raised at the event will support the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, Caring Network program and Young Parent Support program.

Visit the event page for more details, team registration and sponsorship forms. Click here »

Job Code: YPBA01

Summary
Provide support services to pregnant and parenting teens that are linguistically and culturally sensitive using a wraparound case management model to address bio-psychosocial needs. Direct services including: individual and group, participation in a multidisciplinary team, as well as making referrals to appropriate resources as required.

Responsibilities
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Provide strength-based communication support and skill building aimed at enhancing family systems while respecting issues of cultural and linguistic sensitivity.
• Assist teens and their families with effective communication to help address concerns in family dynamics, childcare supports and childcare options that are adequate and reliable.
• Lead parenting groups using the “Happiest Baby on the Block” or other evidence-based curriculum that teaches soothing and basic infant care techniques to parents.
• Work in collaboration with the Massachusetts New Parent Initiative to utilize emotion-based messaging tailored to adolescents on the importance of caring, sharing and bonding. With program teens, develop digital stories or other emotion-based messaging to illustrate the transition into new parenthood giving a voice to the challenges of adolescent parenthood.
• Responsible to respond to crisis situations that arise.
• Participation, facilitation and/or co-facilitation of gender-specific groups to address the needs of young mothers and fathers.
• Participate in scheduled multidisciplinary team meetings to address the clients’ strengths, needs and goals.
• Work with all program staff community partners and community resources to ensure wraparound services and elimination/minimization of service gaps.
• Participate in ongoing supervision (at least once every 2 weeks), case reviews, team meetings and all other meetings required by program.
• Participate in the education of community providers and members regarding the needs of the targeted population.
• Assist Program Director and other program staff in representing the program in the community, including participation in community events during regular working and non-typical working hours.
• Participate in relevant professional trainings.

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Job Code: LAWRJ1

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in social work or related field. Masters level or Masters candidate preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an advocacy and/or casework oriented human service agency.
• Knowledge of family systems.
• Adoption experience is preferred.
• Must have valid driver’s license – will need to travel locally.

Responsibilities
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Participate in the Regional Response Team, providing brief, home-based intensive family stabilization services to adoptive and guardianship families.
• Provide a strengths-based psychosocial assessment of the family’s needs and resources.
• Maintain flexible work schedule.
• Provide advocacy and coordination to empower families to gain access to long term supportive services.
• Provide second stage information referral to families and professionals.
• Design, track and implement support  groups to meet the diverse needs to adoptive families.
• Develop a network of respite providers and/or resources within the region to explore creative solutions to meet longer term needs of families and the program.
• Coordinate respite providers and resources within the region and offer ongoing training and consultation to that network of providers.
• Develop a team of adoptive parents and/or persons to act as parent and/or young adult liaisons with other adoptive families and individuals. Offer training and consultation to those liaisons.
• Coordinate and/or provide training to mental health and/or human service related professionals.
• Provide assistance/backup to the Regional Manager in relation to regional support services and the marketing of the program to other human service oriented resources.
• Entry of data and record keeping in the Journeys database.
• Perform other required duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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Whether you purchased a ticket, sponsored our event, brought a gift for a child, sponsored an entire family, or volunteered your time, YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE! We are truly grateful for your kindness and support and wish you a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year!

A special “Thank You” to Douglas Wine & Spirits for their generous support of the Gala.

SPONSORS

LEADER
Patrick & Lillian Carney

UNDERWRITERS
Paul & Donna Downey
Purchase Street Ventures, LLC
Rockland Trust

BENEFACTORS
Citizens~Union Savings Bank
Dick Melloni Youth Foundation
Shannon & Don Giumetti, Shepard Companies

RESTAURANTS PROVIDING FOOD

Artisan Bake Shop
Cafe Italia Ristorante
Captain’s Place
Cobblestone Restaurant
Dorothy Cox’s Chocolates
Fay’s Restaurant
Kent’s Restaurant
Mattapoisett Chowder House
Morton’s Fork Catering
Narragansett Star Cafe
Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub (Dartmouth)
Not Your Average Joe’s (Dartmouth)
Panera Bread (Dartmouth)
Smoke & Pickles
Texas Roadhouse (Dartmouth)
The Pasta House
Trio Cafe & Lounge
Turk’s Seafood
Waterfront Grille
Wok Magic

Thank you to all the restaurants and businesses that provided gift certificates and silent auction items for this event.

We thank our Gala Committee for their commitment to making the Gala a success:

Stephen Buckley | Chair
Nick Petronelli | Co-Chair
Diane Mascianica
Fatima Simas
Lenore Tavares
Shannon Giumetti

The following groups, along with many individuals and local families, contributed to helping children and families this holiday season:

BER Inc.
Bishop Stang High School
Congregational Church of South Dartmouth
Dartmouth High School
Dartmouth State Police
East Fairhaven High School
Friends Academy
Gail & Roger Dahlberg
Glaser Glass
Griffin Manufacturing
Holy Name Church
Jack Conway Real Estate
Jane Hoffman
Lockheed Martin
Old Rochester Regional High School
Panera Bread
Prince Henry Society
Raytheon
Safe Zones
Southcoast Hospital Group
Tabor Academy
The Carney Family
Unitarian Memorial Church
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Women’s Alliance
Yellow Cab of New Bedford

We thank our Holiday Hope Project Committee who work tirelessly each year to organize the project:

Ellen Dingwell | Chair
Judy Bowen | Co-Chair
Anne Marie Bernier
Fatima Simas
Karen Almeida
Nona Sbordone
Pat Kalisz

Job Code: ACWL01

Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Social work or related fields. A Bachelor’s Degree in social work or related fields is acceptable with experience in adoption or working with children and families. Must be willing to travel and have a valid driver’s license. Bilingual Spanish is required. Must work one evening till 8pm and an occasional weekend is required.

Summary:
To ensure that the children’s physical and emotional needs are met throughout the children’s relationship with the agency. The ultimate goal of the program is to aid children in achieving permanency with a family.

Responsibilities:
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Attendance at all court proceedings, foster care reviews and other mandatory meetings.

• Completion of individual family assessment, when needed.

• Completion of Single Service products in timely manner, when requested by supervisor.

• Complete a thorough assessment of children referred for adoption which will include the child’s strengths, weaknesses, services needed, appropriateness of adoption plan, and projected time frame for placement.

• Preparation of children for the adoption process which will include discussion of the child’s history and biological family, grief and loss, and process of transitioning to a new family.

• Identification and matching children with an appropriate pre-adoptive family.

• Formulation and completion of a visitation schedule which is age appropriate and in the best interests of the children.

• Facilitate plans for a move of the children into the adoptive family, including preparation of all individuals, transfer of all records, (i.e. medical, educational, and therapeutic) to new providers.

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Job Code: FFSC02

Summary: Provide each client with the most clinically appropriate, individually planned service within the constraints of the Agency’s fiscal and resource capabilities. We offer a number of benefits to our fee-for services clinicians. E-mail for more details.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in counseling, psychology, social work or a related field from an accredited educational institution.
• Licensed clinician or licensed-eligible preferred.

Responsibilities:
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Provide direct diagnostic crisis intervention and treatment services using bio-psychosocial methods to create a therapeutic relationship to assist person(s) to achieve a higher level of functioning.
• Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM IV.
• Maintain production expectations and record-keeping requirements.
• Provide training to staff and/or community.
• Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.
• Participate in weekly/bi-weekly supervision meetings with supervisor.
• Maintain providerships with managed care organizations if appropriate.
• Must meet a minimum case load of 25 hours per week for full-time.

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Job Code: IHTHY1

Summary:
In-Home Therapy is a structured, consistent, strengths-based therapeutic relationship between a licensed clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of meeting the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her healthy functioning within the family. Interventions are designed to enhance the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.

Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in psychology, social work or a related field from an accredited educational institution.
• Experience and interest in child/adolescent/family and intensive home-based family interventions.
• Ability to provide clinical care and support toward hospitalization preventiuon and maintain youth safely in community.

Responsibilities:
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Provide direct diagnostic, crisis intervention and treatment services including behavioral strategies within a therapeutic relationship to assist persons to achieve stabilization with the family.
• Advocacy.
• Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM-IV and family assessment tools.
• Aggression outreach, tracking and follow-up.
• Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements.
• Behavioral management training.
• Provide diagnostic and treatment consultation to other agency programs and community agencies.
• Provide Family therapy.
• Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.
• Participate in independent education and training opportunities.
• Training assistance in decision-making, vocational guidance, skill building, problem solving, and support in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

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Job Code: IHTNB

Summary:

In-Home Therapy is a structured, consistent, strengths-based therapeutic relationship between a licensed clinician and the youth and family for the purpose of meeting the youth’s behavioral health needs, including improving the family’s ability to provide effective support for the youth to promote his/her healthy functioning within the family. Interventions are designed to enhance the family’s capacity to improve the youth’s functioning in the home and community and may prevent the need for the youth’s admission to an inpatient hospital, residential treatment facility or other treatment setting.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or related field from an accredited educational institution.

• Experience/interest in child/adolescent/family and intensive home-based family interventions.

• Ability to provide clinical care and support toward effort to prevent hospitalization and maintain youth safely in the community.

Responsibilities:
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Provide direct diagnostic, crisis intervention and treatment services including behavioral strategies within a therapeutic relationship to assist persons to achieve stabilization with the family.

• Utilize diagnostic skills involving practical knowledge of the DSM-IV and family assessment tools.

• Aggression outreach, tracking and follow-up.

• Maintain production expectations and record keeping requirements.

• Behavioral management training.

• Provide diagnostic and treatment consultation to other agency programs and community agencies.

• Provide family therapy.

• Participate in appropriate clinical and administrative staff meetings.

• Participate in independent education and training opportunities.

• Training assistance in decision making, vocational guidance, skill building, problem solving, and support in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

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Job Code: HKFR01

Qualifications:
Candidate must be able to perform housekeeping duties including lifting, bending over, and standing for most of the day.

Responsibilities:
The following responsibilities are not meant to be all inclusive and may be adjusted to meet the agency’s needs.

• Collection of trash and removal to the trash bin
• Vacuuming of entire office
• Cleaning bathrooms
• Ensure waiting areas are clean and presentable
• Mopping floors
• Restock kitchen and break areas
• Light maintenance such as hanging shelves, changing light bulbs, and moving small items
• Various other related housekeeping duties

NOTE: This is a housekeeping position within an office environment. Some light lifting is required.

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