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We believe that to be an employee at The Foundling means to be an employee of one of the greatest social service agencies in the world. In addition to rewarding and meaningful work each day to empower the children and families of New York, The Foundling offers a generous benefits package, a great client and employee centered internal culture, meaningful career advancement opportunities, and organizational stability that are unparalleled anywhere else.

We are currently looking for Therapists for our Evidence-Based Programs. We have positions throughout all five boroughs of New York City using the BSFT (Brief Strategic Family Therapy), MST-CAN (child abuse and neglect), FFT/FFTCM (Functional Family Therapy/Family Functional Therapy – Therapeutic Case Management), MST-PSYCH model and TFCO (Treatment Foster Care Oregon) models.

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Therapist – Responsibilities and Requirements

Duties Include:

Delivering intensive family-focused therapy in order to reduce behaviors that put children at risk of placement out of the home (i.e., juvenile detention or foster care).
Providing home- and community-based clinical therapy for both individuals and families that encompass mental health, substance abuse and trauma treatments. Developing and implementing clinical treatment plans for the family within the model guidelines and with feedback from weekly group supervision.
Maintaining weekly face-to-face sessions with families and providing additional support via phone.
Providing direct clinical treatment that is consistent with the evidence based model.
Participating in model-specific training that pulls from Cognitive Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Structural and Strategic Family Therapies.
Actively participating in building clinical skills, ongoing training and individual clinician development.

Requirements:

Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, or Marriage and Family Therapy required.
Experience with family therapy preferred.
LMSW or LMHC, or LCSW strongly preferred.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred

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