The RightWay Foundation is a Los Angeles non-profit that helps transition-age foster youth (ages 17-26+) get and keep good jobs and stable housing despite the overwhelming trauma they have endured throughout their lives. RightWay works to ensure system-involved youths have access to resources and supportive services that empower them to build stable adulthoods, grounded in mental health and solidified through employment and permanent housing. As they age out of the foster care system, foster youths experience disproportionate rates of trauma, homelessness, incarceration, and food insecurity. RightWay provides the support and tools youths need to build a sustainable future for themselves. The Director of Mental Health is responsible for a comprehensive range of therapeutic services that support the prevention, intervention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health disorders, per the DSM-5. The Director of Mental Health will provide clinical and administrative supervision to Clinical Youth Specialists (Therapists), Job Developers/Case Managers, and Housing Navigators who offer an array of supportive services to youth participants, including, but not limited to, case management, employment services, mental health services, and housing support. The Director of Mental Health is also responsible for program administration with the management team and reports directly to the CEO & COO.

Duties

• Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate with the COO and management team in program planning and implementation
• Clinical Coordination: Once mental health support (therapy) is identified as a need, client caseloads are assigned to clinical youth specialists.
• Deadline Management: Ensure all documentation deadlines are met.
• Documentation Review & Compliance: Review all clinical and case management documentation to ensure it meets organizational and contract requirements.
• Curriculum Design & Development: Develop curriculum and facilitate group therapy sessions by programmatic and contractual requirements.
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Attend and/or facilitate multidisciplinary staff meetings, case conferences, program team meetings, in-services, and supplemental meetings.
• Youth Crisis Management: Assess and provide crisis intervention services for youth
• Collaborative Assessment & Intervention: Collaborate with COO/LCSW/ACSW to assess the need for client intervention; intervene as needed
• Training & Staff Development: Train and support Clinical Youth Specialists and Job Developers/Case Managers on client intervention, group facilitation, and documentation + train and support Housing Navigators
• Referral Coordination: Liaise with private and public social services and mental health agencies to direct clients to the appropriate level of care.
• Confidentiality & Compliance Management: Maintain quality, confidentiality, compliance, therapeutic documentation, and service continuity.
• Audit & Compliance Monitoring: Maintain and complete monthly internal audits of client charts
• Clinical Review & Monitoring: Evaluate the level of client care via documentation review, data collection, chart audits, and direct observation
• Individual Therapy & Counseling: Conduct individual therapy for a small caseload of youth
• Service Documentation & Compliance: Document the provision of services per organizational and contract requirements
• Flexibility & Adaptability: Perform supplemental duties assigned by Management