The Buckeye Ranch

Social Worker

• Empower children and youth with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders
• Engage families to prevent out-of-home placement and reduce significant risks
• Provide services in clients’ homes with a small caseload
• Screen clients for appropriate level of care, substance toxicity, intoxication, withdrawal, dangerousness, and coexisting behavioral health problems
• Identify trauma, adversity, toxic stress, presenting problems, functioning, and family interaction styles
• Determine immediate and future risk of child abuse or neglect
• Adapt evidence-based inter-professional services to consumers’ and families’ needs
• Develop collaborative relationships with service providers
• Develop training plans and facilitate coaching
• Contribute to treatment teams, committees, group supervision, and working groups
• Use trauma-informed interventions to engage clients
• Educate clients, families, and providers about conditions, prevention, treatments, illness, whole-health self-management, peer support, and recovery

Integrated Co-Occurring Counselor/Social Worker

• Provide therapy and support for youth and families struggling with behavioral and delinquency issues
• Assess clients for appropriate level of care, behavioral concerns, trauma, risk, cultural factors, and strengths
• Collaborate with admissions and engagement and complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments
• Complete program-specific assessments such as DLA 20 or ASQ
• Develop training plans and facilitate coaching
• Adjust services to client needs and ensure timely referrals
• Support family members through discharge
• Schedule and conduct therapeutic counseling sessions with individuals, families, and treatment teams
• Work evenings as needed to accommodate families
• Use trauma-informed interventions to engage clients
• Educate clients, families, and providers about healthcare conditions, prevention, treatments, illness, whole-health self-management, peer support, and recovery
• Manage behavioral health crises through appropriate interventions
• Document client progress, progress notes, treatment plans, behavior management programs, discharge planning, and administrative/UM reports
• Contact newly assigned cases within 48 hours and conduct the first appointment within 7 days

Intensive Family Support Counselor – Social Worker

General

• Provide outreach to the Somali community about mental health and current community issues
• Facilitate educational forums and groups addressing acculturation and cultural diversity
• Link individuals and families to appropriate services and community resources
• Provide support and education to partner schools, including youth groups, lunch bunch groups, peer groups, academic assistance, and classroom assistance
• Conduct youth groups and individual sessions with identified clients
• Provide direct service, coordination, and resource linkage for Buckeye Ranch clients and families
• Complete programming referrals and assist families with regular diagnostic assessments
• Participate in treatment teams, departmental committees, large group supervision, and Ranch/external working groups
• Maintain regular contact with individuals, families, and treatment providers
• Schedule appointments around family availability; evening work is expected
• Support refugee clients and families during resettlement and evaluate support systems
• Help clients and families cope with cultural adjustment, assimilation, and mental health needs
• Organize recreational activities for summer and school breaks
• Intervene as clients and families navigate agencies and systems
• Serve as primary communication point for families and internal/external clients
• Coordinate workshops, presentations, and recurring prevention activities

Somali Outreach Mental Health Specialist

• Assess clients for the appropriate level of care, including behavioral examples, trauma, adversity, toxic stress, risk, cultural factors, and client/family strengths
• Collaborate with admissions and engagement and complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments
• Complete program-specific assessments such as DLA 20 or ASQ
• Develop training plans and facilitate coaching
• Adjust service type and intensity to client needs and make timely referrals
• Support family members through discharge
• Schedule and conduct therapeutic counseling sessions with individuals, families, and treatment teams
• Work with supervisors to adjust acuity as family needs change
• Use trauma-informed interventions to engage clients
• Educate clients, family members, and providers about healthcare conditions, prevention, treatments, illness, whole-health self-management, peer support, and recovery
• Manage behavioral health crises through appropriate interventions
• Document client progress, progress notes, treatment plans, behavior management programs, discharge planning, and administrative/utilization-management reports
• Complete paperwork within defined timelines; document progress notes the same day and no later than seven days after service
• Contact newly assigned cases within 48 hours and hold the first appointment within seven days of assignment
• Provide services at times families can participate; evening work is expected

Integrated Co-Occurring Counselor/Social Worker

Intensive Family Support Counselor – Social Worker

Somali Outreach Mental Health Specialist

Intensive Family Support Counselor, Social Worker