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Clinical Court Navigator Support Individuals Who Are Justice-Involved in the Schenectady Community The Clinical Court Navigator is responsible for connecting justice involved individuals with mental health needs to appropriate services and resources to promote successful diversion, engagement in treatment, and improved outcomes. Provide ongoing supervision, training, and support to the Peer Court Navigator and serves as a liaison among individuals, behavioral health providers, criminal justice stakeholders, and community resources. Specific duties include: • Conduct initial screenings to identify individuals’ behavioral health needs, determine appropriate referrals, and assess whether a more comprehensive evaluation is indicated. • Connect individuals with appropriate mental health treatment services and community resources. Facilitate connections to Single Point of Access (SPOA), Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) teams, Intensive and Sustained Engagement Teams (INSET), case management services, Safe Options Support (SOS) teams, and other community-based services. • Facilitate communication and collaboration among individuals, behavioral health providers, criminal justice stakeholders, state agencies, and other community partners regarding behavioral health service needs. • Provide participants with basic information regarding the court process and explain commonly used court-related terminology in an understandable manner. • Connect individuals with resources addressing basic and health-related social needs, including shelter, food, transportation, benefits, and other supportive services. Assist with or refer individuals for completion of applications for appropriate social service benefits. • Provide training, education, and consultation to criminal justice stakeholders, behavioral health providers, and other community partners regarding navigator services, behavioral health resources, and available state and local services to strengthen referral pathways. • Coordinate with the NYS OMH Diversion Center regarding program operations, system issues, service barriers, and opportunities to develop innovative solutions. • Engage individuals in a respectful, person-centered, strength-based, recovery-oriented, and culturally competent manner that promotes inclusion, dignity, independence, and self-determination. • Safely access to all areas including multiple levels accessible by stairs. Community-based services may include visits to individuals’ apartments, including locations on second and third floors. • Provide transportation to individuals when necessary, using agency vehicles. Employees must have access to and be willing to use a personal vehicle for authorized business purposes, including community meetings and meetings outside the office or program location. Skills/Qualifications for the Clinical Court Navigator 1. Licensed and currently registered by New York State as a Licensed Master Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or Licensed Mental Health Counselor. 2. Experience working with individuals living with a serious mental illness and multiple unmet needs preferred. 3. Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary team within the mental health and behavioral health system of care. 4. Valid and insurable New York State driver’s license and ability to meet agency requirements for approved-driver status. 5. Must have reliable access to a personal vehicle for authorized business purposes. Agency vehicles are available for transportation of individuals served. Salary and Schedule of the Clinical Court Navigator • Salary: $74,554.22/annual equivalent, $2,867.47/biweekly • Full-time, 40 hours per week. Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30. NO AFTER HOURS ON-CALL. • Make A Difference Helping Others in a Workplace Where You Matter. • Supportive work environment. • Providing A Culture of Caring.

Director of Community Services Non-Profit Schenectady, NY The Director of Community Services is responsible for the overall operations, high-quality behavioral health care and case management services to adults who have a diagnosis of mental illness and living in the Schenectady community. In addition, development of designated programs within the Community Services Department to support the individuals we serve and the community. • Monitor program performance and maintain regular contact with the programs through supervision of program staff, participation in program meetings, review of program records and individual records, and regular communication with supervisors. • Provide consultation and support to program supervisors to address operational, staffing, clinical, and service-related issues in a timely and effective manner. • Provide direct supervision to the Care Coordination program. Oversee the Critical Time Intervention team, Outreach Case Manager, and Program Representative services. • Ensure services are delivered in a respectful, strength-based, person-centered, and culturally responsive manner. Support individuals served in identifying and addressing their needs, strengths, goals, and opportunities for greater independence. • Monitor admission and discharge processes to ensure they are timely, appropriate, person-centered, and consistent with program requirements. • Monitor utilization and service capacity and make recommendations regarding program needs and resources. • Collaborate with the Senior Director of Community Services to develop, implement, and evaluate new program initiatives and services. Support the continued growth, development, and improvement of Community Services programs. • Participate in policy and procedure development and review to ensure programs remain responsive to agency and community needs. • Ensure all required program documentation, electronic records, billing, tracking reports, and other reports are completed accurately, professionally, and within established timeframes. Review documentation as necessary to ensure compliance with agency, regulatory, clinical, and funding requirements. • Oversee the recruitment, selection, onboarding, supervision, development, and performance evaluation of program staff. • Assist in the development and monitoring of annual program operating budgets, monitor program expenditures and resources to ensure responsible and effective use of agency funds. • Ensure funding related documentation, reports, deliverables, and other requirements are completed accurately and within established deadlines. • Represent the agency with service providers, community organizations, governmental agencies, and other stakeholders as required to support the needs and goals of the agency and individuals served. • Mohawk Opportunities programs and offices may be located in multi-level facilities accessible by stairs only. Employees must be able to safely and reasonably access all levels of assigned facilities. • Community-based services may require visits to individuals’ apartments, including locations on second and third floors. • Provide transportation to individuals served when necessary, using agency vehicles. • Maintain access to a personal vehicle and be willing and able to use it for authorized business purposes, including attending meetings and providing services in the community and attending meetings outside agency offices or program locations. Skills/Qualifications for the Director of Community Services: 1. Bachelor’s degree in human services required. New York State Licensed Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) preferred. 2. Minimum of five years of experience working with individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI). 3. Minimum of three years of supervisory or management experience in a behavioral health care setting; three to five years’ experience preferred. 4. Proficiency with Windows-based computer systems and database applications; experience with electronic health records preferred. 5. Strong organizational, written, verbal, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. 6. Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, organize, and manage both short- and long-term responsibilities while meeting deadlines. 7. Valid and insurable New York State driver’s license and eligibility to become an approved agency driver. 8. Access to a reliable personal vehicle and willingness to use the vehicle for authorized agency business purposes when required. Salary and Schedule of the Director of Community Services: • Salary: $75,000.12/annual equivalent, $2,884.62/biweekly • Full-time, 40 hours per week. Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30. NO AFTER HOURS ON-CALL. • Make A Difference Helping Others in a Workplace Where You Matter. • Supportive work environment. • Providing A Culture of Caring. Visit our website at www.mohawkopportunities.org. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn! Equal Opportunity Employer

Peer Support Specialist Make a Difference Helping Young Adults in Transition! The Peer Support Specialist utilizes lived experience and peer support principles to engage, mentor, advocate for, and support young adults (ages 18-24) who have a diagnosis of a mental illness in achieving their goals related to independent living, community integration, wellness, education, employment, and recovery. Services are provided in the home, community, and office settings. The Peer Support Specialist fosters hope, self-advocacy, and empowerment while connecting individuals to community resources and supports. Duties include: • Engage the young adults in a respectful, strength-based, and culturally competent manner. Build trusting, supportive relationships with clients using a strength-based, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed approach. • Assist clients in identifying strengths, needs, goals, and barriers related to independent living, education, employment, social engagement, housing stability, wellness, and recovery. Collaborate with clients to develop and implement individualized support plans and recovery goals. • Provide peer mentoring, encouragement, advocacy, and wellness coaching to promote self-sufficiency and community integration. • Support clients in developing daily living skills, including budgeting, medication management, personal wellness, household management, transportation, and community participation. Provide support and counseling focusing on psychoeducation, skill building, rehabilitative counseling, money management, medication management, and work or school readiness to individuals. • Assist clients in accessing and utilizing community resources, including behavioral health, medical, educational, vocational, housing, legal, and social service programs. Assess needs related to food, clothing, household items, transportation, and other basic necessities and facilitate access to available resources. • Conduct home, community, and office-based visits, including apartment and wellness checks as appropriate. • Facilitate or co-facilitate psychoeducational and skill-building groups that promote recovery, independent living, and community participation. • Identify potential crisis situations and assist clients in developing crisis prevention and response plans. Provide on-call crisis intervention services on a rotating schedule. Always act to ensure client’s safety, readily assesses needs, provide support and interventions as needed and secure crisis interventions in urgent situations. • Maintain an Electronic Case Record for each client on the assigned caseload. Complete all paperwork in a professional, accurate and timely manner. • Mohawk’s programs and offices are multi-level with stairs only. All employees must be able to travel to all levels of the facility in a safe and reasonable time frame. Client services in the community include visits to clients’ apartments which can be on the second and third floors. • Provide transportation to clients when necessary, using agency vehicles. Employees must have access and be willing to use their personal vehicle to attend client/member meetings in the community and meetings outside the office/program. Skills/Qualifications for the Peer Specialist include: • Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or Certified Peer Specialist (CPS). Provisional certification will be considered if in the process of obtaining permanent certification. • Minimum of two years of human services experience preferred, including experience working with young adults. • Strong interpersonal, communication, advocacy, and relationship-building skills. • Excellent organizational, documentation, problem-solving, and time-management abilities. • Valid and insurable NYS driver’s license. Must have a personal vehicle to use for business purposes. Salary and Benefits of the Peer Specialist: • $22.83/hour: $47,486.40/annual equivalent. 40 hours per week. • On-call on a rotation basis. $210/week on-call stipend. • Excellent benefits, staff training, generous paid time off, and a 30-minute paid lunch. • Supportive work environment. • Make A Difference Helping Others in a Workplace Where You Matter • Providing A Culture of Caring Peer Specialist Schedule: Monday- 8:30am-4:30pm Tuesday -12:00pm-8:00pm Wednesday- 8:30am-4:30pm Thursday 12:00pm-8:00pm Friday 8:30am-4:30pm Saturday and Sunday Off Visit our website at www.mohawkopportunities.org. Visit us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn! Equal Opportunity Employer All offers for employment will be contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed background checks.

Job Title: ENHANCED STEP-DOWN PROGRAM (ESD)- SPECIALTY CRITICAL TIME INTERVENTION (CTI)-TEAM LEADER Department: Clinical & Crisis Supports Location: Bethpage, NY; some travel required Reports To: Enhanced Step-Down Program-Program Director FLSA Status: Exempt Pay Class: Full-Time Pay Range: $90,000 Last Revised: March 2026 POSITION SUMMARY The Specialty CTI Team Leader provides clinical and administrative oversight of the Enhanced Step-Down Program’s Critical Time Intervention services and supervises a multidisciplinary team. This role ensures that individuals with co-occurring Mental Health (MH) and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) receive evidence-based, time-limited support as they transition from inpatient and emergency psychiatric settings to community-based living. The Specialty CTI Team Leader works in close coordination with the Transitional Residential Setting (TRS) team to ensure continuity of care, facilitate shared treatment planning, and support stabilization and permanent housing placement. This position plays a pivotal role in fostering cross-system collaboration with OMH, OPWDD, hospital systems, and community providers. DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (*All responsibilities outlined in official Job Description*)

• Establishes community relationships and serves as liaison to community partners such as Emergency Departments (ED), inpatient psychiatric units both Article 28 and 31, and Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Programs (CPEP).
• Maintains relationships with Nassau County Department of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency, & Developmental Disabilities and Services, Suffolk County Department of Health Services, the Division of Community Mental Hygiene, the Office of Mental Health (OMH), and the Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD).
• Collects feedback from and collaborates with clinical team members and specialists in the community to identify, design and implement training/support needs of the community.
• Assists in the development and implementation of ESD Specialty CTI best practices and policies and procedures.
• Assists with growth of the ESD program via networking internally and externally in conjunction with other departments.
• Maintains communication with other regional CTI teams for the purposes of collaboration.
• Works with FREE’s Accounting Department and leadership team to ensure all required reporting occurs as required.
• Ensures the collection of required data and documentation on consumer access and utilization of Specialty CTI services.
• Works with the leadership team to ensure the continuity and consistency of enrollment of individuals for services.
• Reviews and approves diagnostic evaluations, treatment plans, discharge plans, and behavioral support plans for individuals served.
• Ensures all clinical interventions are trauma-informed, strength-based, and culturally responsive.
• Attends hospital rounds, case conferences, and discharge planning meetings to ensure early identification and engagement of eligible individuals.
• Provides crisis intervention in response to individuals’ behavioral and emotional needs, including support to individuals, families and team members, in-person and virtually.
• Provides supervision, guidance, and direction to all assigned team members on an ongoing basis.
• Ensures all team members are fulfilling their roles and responsibilities and addresses performance issues through performance improvement or corrective action measures.
• Interviews, hires, develops and retains high quality staff.
• Meets consistently with TRS Residential Clinical Coordinator to jointly plan and monitor cases shared between Specialty CTI and TRS.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education:
  • Master’s Degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or other human service field required
• Experience:
  • At least 3 (three) years of supervisory experience required
  • At least 3 (three) years of post-licensure experience working with individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health Diagnoses, and/or Substance Abuse
  • Supervisory experience can be concurrent with post-licensure experience
  • Specialized Training, Licenses, Certifications:
    • LCSW, LMHC, LMSW, LCAT, or Licensed Psychologist licensure required
    • Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA) required
• Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of OMH and OPWDD practices, policies and regulations
  • Computer literacy required; familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite
  • Must be able to motivate, lead and coach others
  • Must be efficient, well organized, and have excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment with flexibility, keeping others informed and anticipating needs is essential
  • Expertise in navigating eligibility and referral processes for OMH, OPWDD, and other programs serving individuals with co-occurring behavioral health conditions.

Rehabilitation Support Services is a not-for-profit, community-based mental health provider dedicated to delivering evidence-based care, currently operating programs in 20 counties in New York State.  Our mission is to enrich and empower the lives of people we serve, both individuals and families, through accessible services, collaborative care, and continuous quality improvement.  We are seeking an individual to join our Senior Management Team as we continue to expand our service regions in New York State.  The Managing Director will oversee programs in the following counties:  Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga, Tompkins and Broome. Hours and Benefits:

• 40 hour work week, Monday through Friday
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage offered 1^st of month following employment
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid holidays, vacation, sick and personal time.
• Paid professional development
• Mileage reimbursement

Salary:

• $105,000 to $115,000 Annually

Location:

• Flexible within counties served

Requirements for the Managing Director include:

• 7–10+ years of progressive leadership experience overseeing multi-site or multi-program operations in a regulated environment.
• Prior leadership in behavioral health/social services/public health settings that includes program development responsibilities.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices and service delivery models relevant to the programs (e.g., case management, care coordination, outpatient services, community-based services).
• Prior experience overseeing and supervising a management team.
• Master’s Degree plus 5 years’ experience or Bachelor’s Degree plus 8 years or High School Diploma plus 15 years’ experience
• Ability to travel across program sites; valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities for the Managing Director include:

• Provides oversight of and ensures efficient, effective operations of all programs under their supervision to ensure quality standards are met. This includes ensuring that programs implement best practice services.
• Collaborate with Senior Management for new program service development, planning, and implementation.
• New Program Development: Requires program launch/scale-up experience, project management, stakeholder engagement.
• Relationship Management: Build constructive relationships with regulators, funders, referral sources, and community partners.
• Ensures the ongoing development and support of management staff within programs under their supervision.
• Effectively works with and collaborates with functional Department Heads to ensure compliance in their respective areas.
• Develop and maintain relationships with regulatory and other system wide entities.
• Set overall Division goals and objectives, priorities, plans and implementation strategies
• Ensure clinical standards are being met in the programs to which this applies.

To Apply:  Provide a resume and salary expectations here: https://rehab.org/careers/ Rehabilitation Support Services wants all interested applicants to know we hire a diverse workforce and are actively recruiting candidates in accordance with diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity practices. This is an immediate opportunity.