Family Partner - Intensive Home-Based Therapeutic Care

About the role

Open Sky's Intensive Home-Based Therapeutic Care provides services to youth and young adults ages 6-22 who are experiencing emotional challenges and/or are part of multi-stressed families. Our model delivers flexible, individualized, in-home supports that adapt in intensity based on the unique needs of each youth and family.

The Family Partner is a vital member of the team that brings lived experience as a parent, caregiver, or family member who has navigated child-serving systems (such as behavioral health, education, child welfare, or juvenile justice). This firsthand experience is essential to building trust, fostering hope, and empowering families as they move toward stability and recovery.

Other Key Responsibilities

• Uses lived experience to support parents and caregivers in understanding and navigating systems of care, strengthening advocacy skills, and developing confidence in decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with youth, caregivers, clinicians, schools, and other service providers to ensure peer and family support is fully integrated with all aspects of care.
• Partner with families in goal development, crisis planning, and problem-solving, offering perspective rooted in personal experience and recovery.
• Support youth in building communication skills and strengthening relationships with family members, friends, natural supports, and providers.
• Promote hope, normalization, and empowerment by modeling recovery, self-advocacy, and system navigation through lived experience.

Qualifications

• Lived experience being a parent, caregiver, guardian, grandparent or foster care parent supporting a person with mental health challenges, required.
• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent, required.
• Valid Driver's License and acceptable driving record, required.
• Experience accessing mental health or related services, required.
• Reliability, willingness to learn, and being open to new opportunities.

Pay Range

$22.07/Hr. - $24.81/Hr.

Benefits of Working for Open Sky Include

• Excellent Supervision (Individual and Group), Professional Development, and Training Opportunities
• Generous paid time off plan - you start with 29 days (almost 6 weeks!) in your first year, including 12 paid holidays. Increases to 32 days in your 2nd year, and the current maximum is 43 days (OVER 8 WEEKS!)
• We pay for your higher education! Ask about our Tuition Reimbursement Program, and reimbursement for a variety of Human Services certifications.
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with Prescription Plan
• 403b Retirement Plan with Employer Match
• Life Insurance (100% Employer-Paid)
• Eligible employer for the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• And more!