Supporting Young Minds, Elevating Clinical Practice
Program Summary
Helping Out Our Teens in Schools (HOOTS) provides on-site integrated health care clinics and tragedy response support to a number of high schools in the Eugene/Springfield and surrounding area. Each week, teams consisting of a medic and a crisis worker visit schools to offer walk-in clinics where they provide client-centered, judgement free and confidential counseling and basic first aid to students. HOOTS also offers mental wellness presentations to classrooms, and other trainings and support for teachers and school staff as requested.
HOOTS is a program of White Bird Clinic, a social service agency providing crisis intervention, medical, dental and mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, and case management and supportive services to the Eugene/Springfield community. HOOTS is a sister program of White Bird's mobile crisis intervention program CAHOOTS.
HOOTS Core Values
Youth empowerment: We believe our role in working with youth is to provide support, tools and resources to help them draw on their own strengths and support systems to take charge of their situation and move forward in their lives.
Community: We engage in community building and community care within schools, as well as connecting youth to resources and opportunities in the wider community outside of their schools.
Humanism: Emphasizing the value and goodness of all humans and choosing to hold all our clients in unconditional positive regard: accepting and supporting them no matter their behavior.
Client-centered: Approaching our clients with the understanding that they are the experts of their own lives, and they know best what is required to meet their needs. We endeavor to understand our clients' situations from their point of view: we do not pose judgment on their behavior or beliefs, nor inflict help that they have not welcomed.
Harm reduction: We utilize practical strategies to reduce potential harm from substance use and risky behaviors, approaching such topics without judgement and with the aim to educate and support clients in taking steps towards safer behaviors on their own terms.
Safety and Belonging: We believe that a sense of safety in schools is fostered by feelings of belonging and connection. As such, we favor restorative justice approaches over punitive measures and zero tolerance policies.
Anti-oppression: Acknowledging the intersecting systems of oppression and privilege we all exist within and contribute to, we strive to center marginalized narratives and are committed to working towards the deconstruction of systemic oppression in the institutions we are a part of.
General Position Description
Supports the growth of QMHA eligible HOOTS Crisis workers with clinical supervision, education, and thoughtful consultation.
Requirements:
QMHP eligible (including background check) – Master's or PhD in counseling or related mental health field.
Experience counseling individuals and groups.
Experience and credential (or eligible) for providing clinical supervision.
Experience working with youth on a wide variety of clinical and social issues.
Preferred:
Experience working in school environments.
Interest in a long-term commitment.
Counseling licensure in Oregon (as LCSW, LMFT or LPC).
Responsibilities:
Provide individual supervision on both scheduled and as-needed basis.
Review clinical files, provide support and guidance to HOOTS crisis workers as needed.
Stay up to date on local resources that serve youth and staff development.
Seek out alternative learning opportunities and share opportunities for staff to learn from experts in fields of work that pertain to HOOTS.
Continue to learn and share evidence based and peer reviewed practices and other information in an ongoing manner.
Organizes ongoing trainings and refreshers on mandatory reporting, suicide risk assessment and ethical competency.
Be available to shift workers who seek consultation in the field or coordinate support to be made available on shift.
Provides records as requested to lawyers and detectives who have judge-ordered subpoenas, and DHS/CPS investigators with open cases.
Supplies access to and support for the QMHA process through MHACBO for all crisis workers. Provides opportunities for crisis workers to access education that directly applies to field work and equitable, anti-racist practices with a minimum of 20 CEU's per year, utilizing supervision to learn from crisis workers what is needed.
Provides spaces dedicated to debriefing field work and evaluating documentation pertaining to suicide risk and assessment.
Shadows at least 4 clinics per year to understand crisis work and the operational aspects of how HOOTS engages in schools.
All other duties as assigned.
Compensation: This is a part time, union, hourly position with a starting pay of $27 per hour depending upon experience and education.
This position requires successful passage of a State mandated background check.