Founded in 1980, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) is a missionâdriven, multiâsite nonprofit serving residents across the Merrimack Valley. With a staff of over 700, GLFHC is dedicated to providing highâquality, compassionate, and accessible patient care. Our CommunityâBased Services focus on meeting individuals where they are through evidenceâbased, personâcentered approaches that reduce harm, improve health outcomes, and connect people to supports without judgment or unnecessary barriers. Through our programs, we provide counseling, treatment referrals, immunizations, and harm reduction services, including syringe access and Narcan education.
The CSS Recovery Coach Coordinator is a key member of the Community Based Services team, supporting the delivery of consistent, highâquality recovery coaching across our programs. This role combines direct recovery coaching with coordination and operational support, including workflow coordination, client tracking, documentation support, and onboarding of new recovery coaches. The Coordinator serves as a liaison between recovery coaches, providers, and leadership, offering mentorship and guidance (without formal supervisory responsibility). In addition, the position maintains a caseload, providing personâcentered recovery coaching, addressing barriers to care, and using lived experience to support clients in achieving their recovery goals.
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GLFHC offers a great working environment, comprehensive benefit package, growth opportunities and tuition reimbursement.
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center with clinical sites in located in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts, serves over 60,000 unique patients from Lawrence and the surrounding communities of Methuen, Andover, North Andover and Haverhill. It is the second-largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Since 1980, GLFHC has been fulfilling its mission “to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the Merrimack Valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.”
GLFHC is also home to the nationally-recognized Lawrence Family Medicine Residency (LFMR) program, the first family medicine residency program of its kind in the United States. Solely owned and operated as an academic medical residency by the health center, LFMR has graduated close to 200 primary care physicians. The majority of LFMR graduates have either stayed at the health center or have chosen to stay working in low-income, underserved communities in Massachusetts and across the country. In FY2020, LFMR will be home to 42 residents who participate in one of the only 4-year programs in the country as part of a demonstration project conducted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.