Director Of Family Services Job at BarrierFree Living
Barrier Free Living Family of Companies
Helping people with disabilities help themselves
Freedom House for People with Disabilities
Secret Garden
BFL Apartment
Job Description
Name: ________________________ Position Title: Director of Family Services
Signature: ____________________________ Date: ______________________
Exempt
Full-Time Hours Per Week: 35.0
Agency/Program: Freedom House
Supervisor: Assistant Program Director
independently in the community. Freedom House is an Emergency Shelter for survivors of
domestic violence primarily with disabilities or who have children with disabilities. Freedom House
is physically equipped to serve people with all kinds of disabilities. The staff of Freedom House is
fluent in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Freedom House, a crisis shelter for disabled victims of domestic violence, provides
comprehensive services to families and single individuals to assist them in recovering from their
experiences of trauma. Services include individual and group counseling, case management,
assistance with housing and government benefits, on-site child care, occupational therapy, and
medical and psychiatric care. This state-of-the-art facility is the first completely accessible
domestic violence shelter for individuals with disabilities in the country.
Summary: Overseeing the family service department including childcare and clinical services for
children and families who reside at Freedom House.
Responsibilities:
Helping people with disabilities help themselves
Freedom House for People with Disabilities
Secret Garden
BFL Apartment
Job Description
Name: ________________________ Position Title: Director of Family Services
Signature: ____________________________ Date: ______________________
Exempt
Full-Time Hours Per Week: 35.0
Agency/Program: Freedom House
Supervisor: Assistant Program Director
independently in the community. Freedom House is an Emergency Shelter for survivors of
domestic violence primarily with disabilities or who have children with disabilities. Freedom House
is physically equipped to serve people with all kinds of disabilities. The staff of Freedom House is
fluent in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.
Freedom House, a crisis shelter for disabled victims of domestic violence, provides
comprehensive services to families and single individuals to assist them in recovering from their
experiences of trauma. Services include individual and group counseling, case management,
assistance with housing and government benefits, on-site child care, occupational therapy, and
medical and psychiatric care. This state-of-the-art facility is the first completely accessible
domestic violence shelter for individuals with disabilities in the country.
Summary: Overseeing the family service department including childcare and clinical services for
children and families who reside at Freedom House.
Responsibilities:
- Supervise 3 childcare staff members;
- Oversee the childcare and recreation department;
- Complete family assessments for all families who enter the shelter;
- Maintain a small individual caseload, providing children ages 4 and older with
- individual, group, and family therapy;
- Support parents to enhance their parenting skills;
- Facilitate Child and Teen Domestic Violence support group;
- Advocate and collaborate with community agencies to support child, families, and
- agency outcomes;
- Provide referrals and information to outside agencies related to child development,
- recreation, and mental health;
- Complete phone screenings for admission into the shelter, assist with the intake process
- Intervening in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, as Mandated by the Federal
- and State law;
- Perform crisis intervention, as needed;
- Participate in all appropriate training and meetings both internally and externally;
- Maintain adequate and timely case records utilizing the FamCare case management
- system.
- Rotate on-call schedule with Clinical Team
Qualifications:
- Licensed professional with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology or Social
- Work;
- Experience with child therapy modalities;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work as part of a team,
- communicate effectively both orally and in writing, and receive and provide feedback.
- Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office applications (including Excel) and skills
- in database management and record keeping
- Bilingual Spanish/English, ASL Knowledge Preferred
Start Date: ASAP.
Annual Salary: XXXXX
Hours per week: 35 – Monday through Friday with three days 9:00 am – 5:00 pm and two
days 12:30pm – 8:30pm.
Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan, Paid
vacation, Sick days, Personal days, Paid National Holidays, and more.
BFL provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants, with employment-based
upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race,
color, national origin, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status,
marital status, creed, genetic disposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, or any other
About BarrierFree Living:
Barrier Free Living (BFL) began its ground-breaking work with people with disabilities in 1978 as a Federally-funded Research and Demonstration Project first known as “Project Outward Bound”. Since then, BFL has gone on to work with thousands of people with disabilities, has launched several successful award winning programs and has become a leader in working with survivors of domestic violence with disabilities. To learn more, please visit our website at www.bflnyc.org
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