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Description

Description

Job Overview : The MRSS Counselor provides timely, structured, community-based in-person interventions and support services for youth and families in need of stabilization. This role addresses emotional symptoms, behaviors, or traumatic circumstances that impair functioning at home, school, or in the community. Services include immediate response, safety planning, skill building, and linkage to long-term supports with the goal of reducing risk and increasing stability. Interventions are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and typically time-limited.

Job Functions

• Deliver immediate, in-person intervention and safety planning to stabilize emotional or behavioral crises.
• Provide home, school, and community-based services focused on de-escalation, skill building, and safety.
• Offer intensive, time-limited support typically lasting no more than 6 weeks without reauthorization.
• Facilitate follow-up stabilization and link clients to ongoing care, including wraparound and evidence-based services.
• Include family and informal supports in assessment, treatment, and transition planning.
• Conduct screenings and CANS assessments for safety concerns, including suicide risk, trauma, and other clinical indicators.
• Promote family communication and behavior management through targeted therapeutic interventions.
• Monitor treatment adherence and coordinate with schools, courts, and children's services.
• Encourage compliance with prescribed medication and consult with prescribing providers as needed.
• Educate families on the nature of the youth's mental health needs and community resources.
• Assist with transportation access for appointments and services.
• Collaborate with other providers and community partners to support the youth and family.
• Complete required documentation and outcomes tracking within agency standards.
• Ensure timely collection of demographic, eligibility, and insurance documentation.
• Maintain CANS certification and required licensure.
• Participate in team meetings, supervision, and agency trainings.
• Provide coverage and team support as needed.
• Meet assigned productivity and billing expectations.
• Abide by agency policies, professional codes of ethics, and confidentiality standards.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

What makes Appleseed a great place to work?

Appleseed Community Mental Health Center, Inc. is committed to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all people. Employment decisions are made based on each person's performance, qualifications, and abilities. The Agency does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

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Industries

Mental Health Care

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