Dfcs Jobs in Georgia (NOW HIRING)

Healthcare & Emergency Solutions is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in providing culturally competent equitable healthcare services for historically excluded communities. Our team of public health professionals and clinical experts is uniquely equipped to manage state contracts. We are seeking high-performing contractors to join our team to deliver services efforts that include: Behavior Aide (BA), Family/Children counseling, Family/ Children assessments, Transportation/ Escorting, Child Supervision, and Drug Screening.

North Georgia Counties: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga,Cherokee, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Murray, Walker, Whitfield and North Fulton. 

This opportunity is a 1099 Contractor role. As a Contractor, you will have the ability to build your schedule based on your availability, select your cases, increase your compensation based on type of services provided and partner with agency that emphasizes the development your professional career.  

As a Family Support Counselor, play a crucial role in supporting families through various challenges. They provide counseling services to children and families involved in the justice system, aiming to reduce instances of child abuse and neglect. Counselors also facilitate psychosocial assessments and offer trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy for families dealing with domestic violence and environmental trauma. The Family Support Counselor is responsible for providing in home support and behavioral services to families and program support to agency social workers.

Family Support Counselor are required to provide: 

Crisis Intervention and Support:

• Provide crisis intervention services for clients experiencing acute mental health crises or emotional distress.
• Offer support and guidance to clients and their families during challenging times.
• Conducts problem-solving in individual sessions to assist clients in addressing challenges (i.e., domestic violence, trauma, anger/stress management, enhanced behavior management for children/youth, grief counseling, separation issues, enhanced methods of appropriate disciplinary techniques.
• Utilize various therapeutic modalities, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and psychodynamic therapy.
• Understands the key values and activities of intensive case management, 
• Intensive in-home counseling to maintain and stabilize a child’s permanency.
• Assist in preparing for the safe return of the child to the parent/caretaker.
• Provide substance abuse treatment and education.
• Help clients develop coping skills, improve self-awareness, and achieve their treatment goals.
• Behavioral Health Assessment: 1 year (Preferred)

Treatment Planning and Collaboration:

• Demonstrates understanding of DFCS and assists clients in identifying, securing, and sustaining a range of resources needed to facilitate family independence.
• Develop comprehensive treatment plans tailored to each client's unique needs and goals.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals, including psychiatrists, social workers, and primary care providers, to coordinate care and ensure continuity of services.
• Responsible for conducting assessments on clients referred to the agency by DFCS. 
• Demonstrates understanding of the overall nature, course, and treatment of mental illness
• Demonstrates knowledge of the co-occurring illness process.
• Assists in formulating a service plan and/or educational plans to ensure that needed services are delivered.
• Create a supportive and therapeutic environment for network therapy to explore and address common concerns with clients' family support

Requirements Family Support Counselor must:

• Minimum:
  • Master’s degree in social work or counseling/mental health and eligible for professional licensure under supervision
• Preferred
  • Licensed or Associate Licensed Professional (LAPC, LPC, AMFT, LMFT)
• Have strong clinical, crisis management, de-escalation, and critical thinking skills
• Must have 1 or more years of human service, mental health experience working with children or adults.
• Understands the key values and activities of intensive case management
• Must possess MS Office: Computer Skills
• Professional Verbal and Written Communication Skills
• Behavioral Intervention Skills
• Crisis Intervention Skills
• Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia Driver’s License, with a minimum of 3-year clear driving history
• Must have reliable transportation (be able to travel locally and statewide, within 100 miles from residence, as needed) 
• Must have professional liability insurance
• Must have and maintain personal vehicle and car insurance at Georgia State minimum
• Must have and maintain personal vehicle and car insurance at 25k per person/25K for property damage/50k bodily injury limits (required)
• Must complete required state and project online trainings provided by HCES.

These services will be provided in the following Georgia counties based on North - Region 1: