Family Support Partner (PRN)

Who we are :

Shineforth is a nonprofit organization that provides a comprehensive array of programs to support children, teens, and parents as they work to overcome challenges. We equip families with tools for success so they can achieve their goals. As a national leader in helping young people and families, we also proactively identify unmet social services needs and develop the necessary partnerships to address those needs.

What we do :

Our regional centers offer individualized treatment for children and teens who are being placed out of home and have special emotional, behavioral, or medical needs. Our youth and families are supported by a collaborative team of specially trained clinical staff and foster parents, who provide daily behavioral health interventions that align with each child’s individualized treatment plan.

What we are looking for :

A Foster Family Support Partner to use personal past experiences, provide peer support to parents / caregivers served in the program by assisting them with successful engagement, advocacy, and connection to formal and informal resources helping them to understand and navigate services and build resiliency as a family. This position utilizes the High Fidelity Wraparound process as the model to inform practice.

Serve families with children through age 21 that have a serious emotional disturbance that is diagnosable under the DSM-IV. Population to be served will have one or more of the following : a mental health problem, a co-occurring mental health and substance abuse problem, contact with the social services system, juvenile justice or court system, require emergency services, or require long term community mental health and other supports.

What you will need :

• High school diploma and some college preferred.
• Must be the biological or adoptive parent or person in the parent role who has been the primary caregiver of a child with emotional, behavioral or mental health challenges is required.
• Must have experience navigating the Virginia behavioral health systems with their child.
• Bi-lingual (Spanish) speaking preferred.
• Participation in wraparound intervention or in family partnership meeting preferred.
• Must have the ability to articulate the experience and appropriate perspective of a parent / caregiver of a child with complex involving mental health needs and provide support to other families with similar challenges.
• Must be able to engage and collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds while maintaining a non-judgmental attitude towards families and professionals.

Why Work at Shineforth?

Shineforth has been an unwavering champion for children, teens, and families for more than 125 years. Our main campus is in Richmond, Va., and we offer nearly 20 programs at nine locations throughout Virginia.

Work-life balance is critical to the health and well-being of our employees, which is why we offer full-time employees generous paid leave, 12 paid holidays, and comprehensive health benefits options that include vision, and optional dental.

All Shineforth employees (this includes part-time and PRN) are eligible for our Employee Assistance Program, and a 401(k) with employer match.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is at the forefront of all we do at Shineforth, and we maintain a culture of acceptance in which crucial conversations are encouraged. Shineforth doesn’t exclude anyone on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, religion, or economic background.