Habilitation Counselor - PerDiem
Listed on 2026-02-03
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Crisis Counselor, Community Health -
Social Work
Mental Health, Crisis Counselor, Community Health
Overview
Rutgers The State University is seeking a Habilitation Counselor within the Essex Children’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services of Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. The Habilitation Counselor provides clinical assessments for the children’s mobile response and stabilization program in Essex County that meet quality and quantity standards within University Behavioral Health Care and the Department of Children and Families/Division of Children’s System of Care (DCSOC).
This role supports the University Behavioral Health Care mission by providing streamlined, prompt, and consumer-friendly crisis response services. Responsibilities include receiving telephone requests for service, undertaking crisis/strength-based assessments of the service needs of the client or customer, outreaching to the family, assessing the youth and family strengths and current crisis situation, making appropriate referrals for time-limited stabilization services, monitoring the effectiveness of services, and making linkages for aftercare.
The position requires recognizing the unique needs of children and adolescents and applying relevant crisis stabilization approaches for families.
Responsibilities
- Receive telephone requests for service and undertake crisis/strength-based assessments of the service needs of the client or customer.
- Respond by outreach to the family and assess the youth and family strengths and current crisis situation.
- Make appropriate referrals for time-limited stabilization services and monitor the effectiveness of services.
- Make linkages for aftercare and ensure continuity of care.
- Demonstrate competency in recognizing the unique needs of children and adolescents and apply relevant crisis stabilization approaches for children, adolescents, and their families.
- Perform functions in support of UBHC’s mission to provide crisis response services that are streamlined, prompt, and consumer-friendly.
About Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC)
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC), established in 1971, offers a full continuum of evidence-based behavioral health and addiction services for children, adolescents, adults, and seniors throughout New Jersey. UBHC employs approximately 1,060 professionals and support staff and is one of the largest providers of behavioral health care in the country with a budget of $260 million and 15 sites across New Jersey.
Services include inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, crisis stabilization, family/caregiver support, community outreach and case management, supportive housing, supported employment, prevention and consultation, employee assistance programs, and a licensed therapeutic school from preschool through high school. UBHC also supports specialty services including helplines for suicide prevention, police, veterans, active military, teachers, mothers of special needs children, and child protective services workers.
In FY2016, UBHC served 16,199 consumers, had 24,502 admissions, and provided support to 19,441 individual callers through peer support. UBHC is the primary mental health training resource for New Jersey’s departments of Human Services, Children and Families, and Corrections, delivering 16,000 trainings each year.
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