Position: Program Specialist - SMHR

Salary: $39,000.00 - $42.000.00 annually

(Starting salary depends on education and experience)

Job Type: Full Time

RESPONSIBILITIES: Do you have a passion for nurturing healthy relationships? As a Program Specialist - SMHR, you could enjoy a high degree of autonomy in scheduling, planning, and delivering meaningful classes to single adults to help them develop knowledge and skills to form healthier, happier, and more stable relationships in the future with a partner, children, and other significant persons in their lives. The Show Me Healthy Relationships Education Program, SMHR, is a joint partnership with the University of Missouri - Columbia and Cornerstones of Care. Cornerstones of Care believes in safe and healthy communities. Through the SMHR program we are building strong couples and strong families for a better Missouri. If you desire to work with Missouri community members who are voluntarily and proactively seeking to learn, this is the team for you! .

• Assist with building and maintaining a referral base through community connections and collaborations, including community events.
• Arrange and conduct initial intake assessment of potential participants in virtual, community and office-based settings.
• Gather and utilize information given directly from families during the comprehensive intake process to assess strengths and risks/needs, domestic violence, and participant characteristics.
• Document participant information and enroll in services through appropriate electronic record systems.
• Determine eligibility of participants based on relationship status and functioning.
• Engage new participants, building trust and serving as a positive influence.
• Partner with participants to develop, update, and implement a Personalized Action Plan, connecting participants to appropriate services as needed.
• Screen for violence, suicidal ideation, or harm; implement safety planning as needed.
• Participate in train-the-trainer and practice sessions.
• Schedule, prepare and facilitate relationship education classes in instructor-led and virtual instructor-led settings.
• Successfully complete all training required by Cornerstones of Care and by the University of Missouri - Columbia, which may includes local and out of town travel.
• Engage as a member of the Collaborative Learning & Training Division as well as SMHR team including participation in program and agency team meetings and work collaboratively through open communication and teamwork with other team members and stakeholders to ensure participant success.

QUALIFICATIONS: Must be at least 21 years of age and pass the background check, and physical and drug screening. This position also requires a valid driver's license and proof of current vehicle insurance. Required: Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, Family Studies, or other similar degree required. Master's Degree preferred.

BENEFITS: Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package, which includes: Paid Holiday, Paid Time Away (unlimited PTO for all benefit-eligible team members), medical/dental/vision; prescriptions; accident and critical illness insurance; pet insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; term life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D); health savings account (HSA); flexible spending account (FSA); retirement (401K); employee assistance program (EAP); YMCA membership discounts; Tuition Reimbursement Program and Public Service Loan Forgiveness. To view a detailed Summary of Benefits please visit our website at www.cornerstonesofcare.org and under the heading "About Us" click on "Join Our Team."

CORNERSTONES OF CARE'S ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS:

• Nonviolence-helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose
• Emotional Intelligence-helping to teach emotional management skills
• Social Learning-helping to build cognitive skills
• Open Communication-helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management
• Democracy-helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority
• Social Responsibility-helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships
• Growth and Change-helping to work through loss and prepare for the future

Questions?

Please contact: Cornerstones of Care, Human Resources Department

8150 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64114

Phone: (816) 853-1942

Fax: (816) 508-1757

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