WELLNESS CENTER CASE MANAGER

JOB SUMMARY: 

The Asian Ethnic Culture Specific Wellness Center is designed to help create access and linkage to treatment that improve timely engagement to behavioral health services for clients and/or families from unserved and underserved Asian Ethnic Culture Specific Communities using strategies that are non-stigmatizing and nondiscriminatory. The goals for the Wellness Center is to increase access to ethnic and culturally sensitive reflective, strengths-based prevention and early intervention behavioral health services, outreach, education, wellness groups and workshop, and to reduce disparities utilizing a networking model among the various stakeholders, and to build trust between the community and service providers.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:       

• Plan, organize, recruit, and run wellness center groups and workshops for behavioral health clients, their family members, and residents of the various Asian ethnic communities in Santa Clara County area.
• Ability to provide wellness center services both in-person and via telehealth options.
• Provide community health education, wellness and recovery groups, prevention strategies, culturally specific wellness activities and referrals to community mental health treatment facilities.
• Delivery of outreach and wellness education to hard-to-reach segments of the unserved and underserved Asian communities.
• Active and continuous promotion of services through various multilingual resource guides, newsletters, and social media platforms, etc., within the Asian ethnic communities and County behavioral health organizations
• Guide clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their challenges
• Act as client advocates to coordinate required services that promote client's individual self-sufficiency and independence
• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment and services.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Possess a current driver's license, safe driving record, and have auto insurance
• Willingness to work some evenings and weekends as needed
• Ability to prepare and keep documentation of clinical records up to date.
• Assess clients’ needs and demonstrate ability to effectively problem-solve.
• Ability to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Asian ethnic specific communities.
• Bilingual proficiency in both English and one of the Asian languages of the targeted ethnic communities.

EDUCATION:

• Minimum 2 years experience in providing mental health services
• Minimum 2 years of college in human services
• Bachelor or Master degrees preferred

If interested, please send resume & cover letter to:

info@mekongcommunity.org