High-Fidelity Wraparound Therapist

The High-Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) Therapist provides intensive, individualized, and family-centered mental health services following the HFW model, emphasizing family voice and choice, team-based planning, and culturally responsive care. This role focuses on supporting children and youth with complex behavioral, emotional, and mental health needs by coordinating care, facilitating team-based planning, and delivering therapeutic interventions within the home, school, and community settings.

The HFW therapist is part of a multidisciplinary team that works collaboratively with caregivers, natural supports, and system partners to develop individualized care plans that promote stability, permanency, and overall well-being. The HFW therapist is available 24/7 for crisis response.

Essential Functions:

• Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of child/youth and family needs and strengths, utilizing the CANS for prioritization and progress tracking
• Identify underlying needs and trauma as the driving force of service delivery
• Develop, maintain, and adapt treatment plans collaboratively with the family, natural supports, and service providers
• Monitor client progress and adjust interventions based on outcomes and data
• Provide individual, family, and group therapy in home, school, and community settings
• Implement trauma-informed clinical interventions tailored to each child/youth's underlying needs
• Actively participate in, coordinate, and facilitate Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings
• Provide comprehensive treatment services and interface with community psychiatric hospitals, DCFS, DMH, school officials, probation department, court system, and law enforcement
• Provide psychoeducation to caregivers on managing behavior and responding to trauma responses
• LPS designation by Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health is required for this position
• Deliver crisis intervention and stabilization services, including creating and regularly reviewing Crisis Safety Plans
• On-call 24 hours per day, 7 days a week to provide crisis support
• Assess the need for flex funds and communicate to treatment team
• Support families in building natural supports and community connections
• Maintain service time expectations and accurate, timely documentation in compliance with agency and regulatory standards
• Consult and serve as liaison with community agencies, school personnel, and other mental health programs
• Apply trauma-informed, culturally responsive practices across all client interactions
• Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings, in-service trainings, and other meetings as appropriate
• Maintain client confidentiality in compliance with HIPAA and all applicable regulations