Family Partner, El Dorado CBFS
Job in
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, 95828, USA
Listed on 2026-01-22
Listing for:
Stanford Sierra Youth & Families
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-22
Job specializations:
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Social Work
Family Advocacy & Support Services, Community Health -
Healthcare
Family Advocacy & Support Services, Community Health
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- $1,000 Hiring Bonus, Additional $1,500 Spanish Speaking Bonus*
- Minimum of a High School Diploma or GED required
- Experience as a parent or caregiver of a child with a serious emotional disturbance receiving, or having previously received, services within the public systems, including: mental health, child welfare, or juvenile justice.
- Basic knowledge of Public Mental Health/Child Welfare/Education systems, and the ability to advocate on behalf of clients in navigating and negotiating those systems
- Previous experience with advocacy, outreach, and community resources, preferred
- Meets minimum qualification listed above.
- Meets all minimum qualifications for Family Partner I AND meets both of the following:
- Has obtained Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification
- Has a minimum of 1 year experience as a Family Partner
- Meets all qualifications for Family Partner II AND meets both of the following:
- Consistently demonstrates a high level of proficiency in the role
- Has a minimum of 2 years’ experience as a Peer Advocate
- Program Intake ̶ participate at some level in the client intake process, ensuring that family members are aware of how to access advocacy and support services from Family Partners.
- Coaching and mentoring ̶ coach and educate families (parents, caregivers, and youth) to acquire greater communication, system navigation, and self-regulation skills that are geared to help them take more effective advantage of treatment while assuring that their personal goals and outcomes are met.
- Outreach ̶ participate in CFT (Child and Family Team) meetings in family homes or in the community, assessing their strengths and challenges, providing parenting support, informing them about Stanford Sierra Youth & Families’ services, and linking them to community resources.
- Mutual Support and Education Groups ̶ offer ongoing education and support Groups that bring families with similar challenges and concerns together. Through support, information and education, parents, caregivers, and youth are provided with a variety of tools that can help them to successfully cope with the challenges that they face when raising their children.
- Participation in Family and Youth Partnership Wellness and Position Specific Group ̶ With the use of lived/living experience, personal wellness, connection, and support is necessary. FYP position specific groups are peer-to-peer connection points that provide opportunities for partnership, problem solving, and community. FYP Wellness group is a mandatory requirement for those with lived/living experience to address compassion fatigue and barriers that may come up in the work as a peer.
Other groups such as our Recovery and Recharge are optional and are for those who keep recovery first. - Participation in Agency Wide Program Meetings, Family Team Meetings and Management Decisions ̶ The voice and perspective of families (parents, caregivers, and youth) is crucial to the development of all agency decision-making, program development and treatment planning. Family Partners participate in program and child and family team meetings to give and exchange their perspectives on child and family strengths, parents as partners in the delivery of services and self-help support systems, as well as the expressed needs of families concerning how the agency may better accommodate family voice and choice in service delivery.
- Staff Consultation and Training ̶ provide on-going feedback and training to staff on the importance of a family’s voice and choice and cultural sensitivity in all aspects of their treatment planning.
- Participation in the Hiring Process ̶ participate in the interview process for potential Stanford Sierra Youth & Families’ employees, providing an assessment of a potential candidate’s ability, skill, and inclination to provide services that are sensitive to, and inclusive of family voice and choice issues.
- Community Advocacy ̶ may participate in community trainings, work groups, planning committees, client…
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