Mental Health Professional, Early Childhood

Job description

We are seeking a Child First Mental Health Clinician to work with families in the Pueblo, Otero, Crowley, Bent Counties. New grads are welcome to apply! This is a fulltime salaried position with robust benefits including licensed supervision. Annual base salary range is $60,000-$75,000. Child First Child First | is an evidence-based, early childhood intervention that helps very vulnerable families build strong, nurturing relationships that protect and heal young children from the devastating impact of trauma and chronic stress. Most families have experienced multiple challenges, including poverty, violence, depression, substance use, and homelessness. Research demonstrates that these adverse experiences damage the developing brain of the young child. Therefore, Child First works in the home with a two-pronged approach: (1) Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP HOME – Child-Parent Psychotherapy (childparentpsychotherapy.com) ), an attachment-based, trauma-informed, dyadic intervention which protects the brain from the impact of stress and trauma, and (2) Care coordination that provides wrap-around services and supports for the whole family, decreasing “toxic” stress. In this way, Child Fi...