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Mental Health Clinician for The Wellness Project ​

Job Description:  The mental health clinician position for The Wellness Project provides comprehensive, participant-centered, holistic mental health and trauma recovery services to women who are interested in improving overall wellness. This position is funded through a SAMHSA grant that offers targeted outreach to engage women of color in individual and group therapy, acupuncture, and other supportive prevention services.
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The mental health therapist position is responsible for:

• Providing mental health individual and group sessions for women
• Understanding and implementing culturally, gender, and trauma responsive care

• Administering screens and assessments at initial intake and 6-month follow-up 
• Maintaining OBH and SAMHSA Compliant treatment files for all participants 
• Providing brief treatment interventions and mental health therapy for women utilizing solution focused brief therapy.

 Other Responsibilities Include:

• Attending all required meetings, including weekly clinical team meetings.
• Obtaining all necessary and required supervision and training.
• Maintaining Self-Care.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Master’s in social work or counseling and actively working towards licensure.
• Working understanding of harm reduction theory and trauma informed services.
• Experience providing individual and group therapy interventions.
• Experience working with a diverse populations.

Please send your cover letter and resume to​ Julie Kiehl at julie-kiehl@empowermentprogram.org

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Behavioral Health Therapist for the Women’s Health Project (WHP)

Job Description:  The behavioral health therapist position for the WHP provides comprehensive, individualized behavioral health services to women who are living with HIV/AIDS.  The therapist collaborates with the participant’s care managers and/or peer specialists who utilize a participant-centered process to connect participants to housing, health care, mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and other support services to help individuals build healthier lives from the inside out.  The WHP Behavioral Therapist will work with participants to establish treatment plans, provide behavioral health therapy, develop continuity of care, and encourage the participants to work with their care managers to coordinate the services required to implement the plan.
 
The behavioral health therapist position is responsible for:

• Providing behavioral health individual and group sessions for women living with HIV/AIDS
• Assessing participants needs by helping the participant identify problems and difficulties.
• Helping the participant deal with any crisis that may arise by identifying the problem and offering possible solutions.
• Maintaining all confidential files and paperwork.
• Conducting administrative tasks related to documentation and confidential participant records, including timely entering all necessary data.
• Entering data in compliance with grant and OBH standards
• Understanding and implementing culturally responsive, gender-responsive, and trauma informed care

 
Other Responsibilities Include:

• Attending all required meetings, including weekly clinical and housing team meetings
• Obtaining all necessary and required supervision and training.
• Maintaining Self-Care
• Other duties as assigned.

 
Qualifications:

• Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Must have reliable vehicle, valid driver’s license, and insurance.
• Working understanding of harm reduction theory and trauma informed services
• Experience working with a diverse population.

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Please send your cover letter and resume to​ Julie Kiehl at julie-kiehl@empowermentprogram.org

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Peer Support Specialist - Housing Opportunities for People Living with HIV/AIDS (HOPWA)

Job Description:  The HOPWA Housing Peer Support Specialist works directly with women living with HIV who are either homeless or housed to maintain and/or acquire housing. The Peer Support Specialist would be available to assist in any life skills support services and education that will benefit women to live well independently and with their families, to access needed supports to maintain housing, and to help women access all needed eligibility requirements to access housing throughout the community. The Peer Support Specialist will work with current medical care managers, Empowerment housing staff, community landlords and resources/supports to ensure participant needs are being met.

HOPWA Housing Peer Support Specialist is responsible for:

• Understanding HIV basics
• Understanding and implementing the HOPWA Scope of Work and completing required documentation
• Supportive, non-judgmental peer counseling in which participants can explore their options and issues related to housing; ranging from external obstacles such as poverty, to psychological obstacles such as long-term impacts of trauma
• Providing individualized treatment services that change with the needs and desires of the participant
• Transporting participants to important medical, benefits, or housing appointments
• Meeting participants in their home and community to provide needed support and assistance
• Life skills education: psycho-educational groups and individual education
• Referrals to support services that support maintaining or accessing housing (benefits, employment, in-home services/HCBS, mental health treatment, substance use treatment, community resources for furniture/home goods, food banks, transportation services, etc).
• Assistance with accessing necessary documents for housing & other resources such as identification, birth certificate, social security cards, etc.
• Advocating for participants in landlord/tenant issues
• Understanding and implementing culturally responsive, gender-responsive, and trauma informed care

Other Responsibilities Include:

• Agency Team Meetings
• Maintaining Self-Care
• Other duties as assigned

​Qualifications:

• Must have reliable vehicle, valid driver’s license and insurance
• Working understanding of harm reduction theory and trauma informed services
• Applicable professional or life experience is preferred
• Experience working with a diverse population
• Ability to de-escalate stressful situations with participants dealing with trauma and loss

While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise the job description as necessary to ensure program success. The Empowerment Program is an equal opportunity employer.

​Please send your cover letter and resume to​ Julie Kiehl at julie-kiehl@empowermentprogram.org