One of Georgia’s largest behavioral healthcare providers, Highland Rivers Behavioral Health provides compassionate, professional treatment and recovery services to adults, children, families and veterans affected by mental health issues, substance abuse and addiction, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our purpose is to help every individual recover and live independent, successful and fulfilling lives.

The Listening, Inspiring, and Guiding Healthy Transitions (LIGHT) Program is a team based, multi-element approach to treating transition age youth and young adults, ages 16-30 years old with FEP (First Episode Psychosis). Family Education Support Provider will provide therapeutic services for children, adolescents, transition age youth-adults and their families who are enrolled in the C & A Outpatient Services and the LIGHT Program in Cobb county. The C & A Outpatient clinic provides individual, family, behavioral health assessments and supportive services for children and adolescents.

Highland Rivers is seeking a Family Education Support Provider for the Cobb county area.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide behavioral health assessments, individual, group, and family therapy in clinic, via telehealth and in community setting.
• Hold and maintain caseload of Youth/Young Adults individuals ages 16-30.
• Provide family education, support and coordinated resources to Youth/Young Adults and families
• Develop personalized treatment plans.
• Preform marketing activities and community outreach
• Collaborate with outside agency staff to promote mental health services and referrals.
• Attend treatment team meetings as directed by Clinician-Lead.
• Ensure and provide high quality, compassionate, and ethical mental health therapy to improve program and organizational performance.
• Assess and evaluate individuals’ needs, strengths, goals and resources.
• Develop Individual Service Plans with clients utilizing the assessment tools approved by DBHDD.
• Provide referrals to additional Highland Rivers Programs or community services when needed.
• Ensure and maintain appropriate usage and allotment of units authorized per service delivery.
• Intervene, stabilize and manage acute crisis situations as needed.
• Maintain confidentiality for all indirect/direct service in accordance with agency policies and HIPPA policies.
• Other responsibilities and tasks as may be assigned

• At a minimum must have a Master’s degree and be license eligible in the state of Georgia
• 1 years’ experience working with mental health
• Skilled in working independently and implementing time management strategies
• Bi-lingual abilities a plus
• Must be able to pass an intensive criminal background investigation
• Pre-Employment and random drug screening