Montgomery, Alabama30+ days ago
li>Through positive collaboration and relationships, promote access and quality services for the youth/family by assisting with accessing strength-based mental health/health services, social services, educational services and other supports and resources required to assist the family unit to attain its vision/goals/objectives including:- Creating early access to the messages of recovery and wellness;
- Helping the family identify natural supports that exist for the youth;
- Working with youth/young adults to access supports which maintain youth in the least restrictive setting possible;
- Working with the youth/young adult to ensure that they have choices in life aspects, sustained access to an ownership of their IRP and resources developed;
- Working with youth/young adult to provide adequate information to make healthier choices about their use of alcohol and/or other drugs;
- Working with the provider community and other practitioners, the CPS-Y promotes the youth to self-advocate to:
- Develop responsive and flexible resources that facilitate community-based interventions;
- Create a person-centered, recovery-oriented treatment plan that correspond with the needs of the youth/family;
- Acknowledge the importance of Self Care, addressing the need to maintain whole health and wellness. This should include support in building "recovery capital" (formal and informal community supports);
- Assisting with identifying community and individual supports (including friends, relatives, schools, religious affiliations, etc.) that can be used by the youth to achieve his/her goals and objectives;
- Assisting the youth and family participants as needed in coordinating with other youth-serving systems (or at a certain age, collaboration and engagement with adult-serving systems) to achieve the family/youth goals;
- Provide resources and educational materials to help assist youth with understanding services, options, and treatment expectations, as well assistance with developing wellness tools and coping skills, including:
- Understanding various system processes, how these relate to the youth's recovery process, and their valued role;
- Understanding what a mental health diagnosis means and what a journey to recovery may look like;
- The role of services/prescribed medication in diminishing/managing the symptoms of that condition and increasing resilience and functioning in living with that condition;
- Facilitate and create advocacy, balance, and cohesion between the youth/family served, professionals (including CPS-Ps who may be supporting the family), and other supporting partners.