Job Description

Homeless Children’s Network

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant

SALARY: $80K (38.46 per hour)

SCHEDULE: Part-time position. Onsite/Hybrid

BENEFITS: Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

HOMELESS CHILDREN’S NETWORK MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Homeless Children’s Network (HCN) is to decrease the trauma of homelessness

and domestic violence for children, youth, and families; to empower families, and to increase the effectiveness of collaborative efforts among service providers to end homelessness and

poverty.

Homeless Children's Network is a community-based organization providing mental health and

family support services to children and families who are homeless and formerly homeless.

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant Program

Homeless Children’s Network’s Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Program is an early

intervention and prevention-based service that pairs a culturally competent mental health

consultant with vulnerable communities who support infants and young children in various

settings where they learn and grow, such as child care centers, shelters, and family resource centers. Consultants utilize a relationship-focused, equitable, and trauma-informed approach

to build adults’ capacity to strengthen and support the healthy social and emotional

development of children through their natural attachments.

POSITION SUMMARY

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• The consultant’s role is to primarily listen, learn, and observe the relationships within the consultation environment, including: staff to staff, staff to child, child to child,

etc.

• Build a reflective practice and curious stance with staff either through individual or

group consultation, as well as modeling within the classroom space

• Deeper and more challenging conversations can start happening within the safety of the

relationship. For example: Implicit bias, personal triggers, cultural competence, etc.

• Co-create meaning around behaviors and increase the adult’s capacity building skills with consultant’s support
• Increase participation in holding a system-wide mental health goal, plan, vision, etc. with the leadership team
• Consultant can zoom in and out of all the levels of the system (program, staff, family, child)

Service Settings

 Early Education Center

 Family Resource Centers

 Shelters

 Outpatient Substance Abuse Centers

 San Francisco Unified School District

 Family Childcare Centers

Menu of Services

 Mental Health Consultation to Staff Program

 Training Staff on Mental Health Related Topics

 Mental Health Consultation focused on Children Ages 0-5 - Individual, Families,

Groups

 Referrals and Case Management

 Training staff on mental health related topics

 Ages and Stages Developmental Screenings

 School/Classroom Observations

 Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Obtained at least a Master’s degree, especially in Counseling Psychology, Clinical

Psychology, Social Work/Social Welfare, Marriage and Family Therapy, or similarly

related field.

• Registered with the Board of Behavioral Science, BBS, or active in the registration

process.

• License-eligible or licensed in California.
• Experienced and knowledgeable in child development, especially in BIPOC (Black,

Indigenous, POC) families and communities.

• Knowledge of and/or interest in early childhood (0 - 5 years old) development and

supports

• Working knowledge/experience related to issues of homelessness and domestic

violence

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Positive attitude and team play with proven ability to work with people of different intersecting identities
• Preferably bicultural/bilingual Spanish-speaking to better meet the needs of the families we serve.

HCN’S COMMUNITY CULTURE

Of all the above important qualifications, bring the heartfelt quality of compassion, with

exquisite cultural responsiveness as a primary guiding quality, not only of your professional life, but of what you hold dear.

At HCN we don’t just accept differences, we CELEBRATE them! At HCN, we thrive on your

humanness, your individualism, your authenticity. Mohawks, weaves, braids, bald, twists,

dreads, straight, mullet? Yes, that too. The people we serve are as diverse as a jar of

multicolored marbles and for the benefit of our clients, our employees must be too. HCN is

proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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