Clinician - Part Time

This part time (20 hours per week) Clinician will assist the Therapeutic Group Home Program in assuring the delivery of clinical services to students and their families as it relates to academic success.

For fifty years, The Children's Guild has been working to help emotionally disabled children. We created our Therapeutic Group Homes Program because we understand how a child can become mired in the cycle of maladaptive, self-defeating behaviors he or she develops to cope with abuse, poverty, or family dysfunction. We also understand that an emotionally troubled teen can have a difficult time with change because the thoughts, speech, actions, objects, and symbols that define his or her environment also mold his behavior.

Who lives in The Children's Guild Therapeutic Group Homes? Our homes serve boys and girld aged 12 to 18. Residents must have a minimum I.Q. of 70. Our homes are community based, so we cannot place children who are extremely violent or who are in need of incarceration. We cannot offer programming for children who need extensive medical care.

Many of the students referred to us have survived a lot: multiple foster care placements; physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; neglectful or dysfunctional families; social isolation or poor interpersonal relationships; poverty. And many of them exhibit one or more of a constellation of troubling signs of emotional disability: behavior disorders, personality disorders, psychosis, aggressiveness, truancy, or delinquency.

What will a child experience here? We treat the whole person, and our programs have many facets.

The touchstone of The Children's Guild's philosophy is Transformation Education, a method for guiding our students and group home residents to new ways, affirmative ways, of perceiving the world and acting in it. It works because it relies on the very same processes that create dysfunctional behavior. Our students' acculturation ends with a set of values, skills, and beliefs for a successful life.

Life Education. Like most residential programs, ours provides consistent supervision. We have a staff-to-student ratio of 1:3. Unlike many programs, however, The Children's Guild's Life Education Program treats the whole person.
REQUIREMENTS
Master's degree in Social Work or Counseling plus a minimum of three years experience working with emotionally disturbed population. Must be licensed as an LCSW-C or LCPC.