Why should YOU choose Dilico?
- Optional Hybrid work schedule
- Optional Flexible schedule to support work-life balance
- OMERS Pension plan available to all employees
- Competitive salaries
- Generous paid vacation time for Permanent employees
- Paid time off at Christmas above paid vacation time
- EFAP available to all employees and their families
- Benefit plan that includes dental, healthcare, and vision services for Permanent employees
- A chance to make a difference in the community
Position Overview:
The service exists to keep families together. The service supports a child’s larger treatment plan as managed by a children’s mental health worker. It supports the family’s role as care giver to the child in treatment by:
- providing the family with the coping skills required to address the stresses resulting from environmental factors and the child’s mental health issues;
- treating the family members with mental health needs, or referring adult family members to the adult mental health / service sector to address personal needs;
- supporting the family members emotionally throughout the treatment process;
- assisting the family in addressing crises, and
- helping the family understand the treatment needs of the child.
The service complements mental health programs that are treating a child by:
- engaging with other service providers who are working with a child;
- sharing and receiving treatment information from other service providers, and
- operating in conjunction with the child’s mental health worker.
The service helps the family maintain or improve its ability to preserve itself as a healthy and effective system by engaging:
- the primary caregivers;
- the child’s siblings and
- any extended family or community members who have a vested interest in the family.
All services must be consistent with the Dilico Anishinabek Family Care philosophy, approach, goals and learning environment. The District Family Preservation Coordinator will support the delivery of integrated services from the point of intake to discharge for all children, youth and families.