FLSA: Exempt
Reports To: TLC’s Chief Clinical Officer
Organization The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth (“TLC”) is a regional social impact
Summary: company serving the Greater Philadelphia area for over 50 years. Founded in 1970
and incorporated in 1983, TLC is one of the region’s longest serving nonprofit
organizations providing alternative education, coaching, and counseling services to
public school students and their families.
Position Summary: The School-based Counselor/ Social Worker provides (1) early intervention therapy and
counseling services in a Vocational school, (2) case management and mental health
support services at the school and in the homes of at-risk students, and (3) consultation
services to school personnel, liaison support to community agencies, and training
programs for school and community populations.
Duties & SERVICES TO STUDENTS:
Responsibilities • Identify students in need of trauma support and to provide prevention, screening,
referral and treatment services to students potentially in need of services.
- Provide trauma-informed therapy and counseling interventions (group, individual
and/or family) for at-risk students.
- Provide mentoring and other intervention models to children and their families
who have experienced trauma or are at risk of experiencing trauma, including
those who are low-income, homeless, in foster care, involved in the criminal justice
system, unemployed, experiencing a mental illness or substance abuse disorder or
not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.
- Provide case management for students and families requiring multiple resources.
- Provide quality trauma support and behavioral health care services.
- Provide home-based services to the families of students who have experienced or
are at risk of experiencing trauma, including those who are low-income, homeless,
involved in the child welfare system or involved in the juvenile justice system.
SERVICES TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL:
- Assist teachers with behavior management strategies.
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