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Staff
Background
Our professionally
trained staff comes from various cultures and
educational backgrounds. However, before being hired,
each person submits an application and cover letter that
must meet certain criteria before even a phone interview
is scheduled with our Executive Director.
If the applicant
successfully completes the phone interview, he or she is
scheduled for a face-to-face interview with various
licensed professionals on our staff to ascertain whether
the applicant has both the (verifiable) professional
background along with the burning passion for this field
that is necessary to provide the quality, competent care
people deserve.
Our screening and hiring process includes, but
is not limited to:
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Interviewing with the Executive Director
• Verification of
Education (Degree), Certification, and/or Licensure
• Local and
National Criminal Background check for the past 7 years
• Satisfactory
Employment Verification and Positive Reference Checks
• Violent Sexual
Offender/Predator Registry-
• 10 panel
substance use screen
• Submitting a
Clinical Writing Sample
• Completing
various case vignettes applicable to the child welfare
system.
We seek to hire mental
health professionals that:
• Have a
recognizable passion for providing mental health care.
• Are licensed or
license eligible, or that have a specialty certification
such as (SAP) Substance Abuse Professional.
• Have a
verifiable history of providing mental health and case
management services.
• Are able to
demonstrate keen written and oral clinical intervention
skills.
• Have an
understanding or history of working with the Department
of Family and Children Services (DFACS), Department of
Juvenile Justice (DJJ),
and/or other government agencies that address the
various behavior needs of adults and adolescents.
Upon hiring our mental
health professionals, we not only provide initial
orientation and training, but also mandatory ongoing
weekly supervision by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
(LCSW) and/or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) to
address various clinical interventions and promote
professional development.
Each week, cases
(families needing care) are staffed with our state
licensed and insured professionals to assess, evaluate,
and develop a treatment plan designed specifically to
address the therapeutic needs of that family.
Additionally, because the agency caseworker is often an
integral part of the case plan development and
implementation, feedback is often solicited during the
development of the treatment plans.
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