Join a team of providers making a difference in the lives of vulnerable children. Provide behavioral treatment and SEL instruction for children with emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental disabilities.
The INCLUSION Tutorial and Behavioral Services (TABS) Program provides intensive, individualized support students in grades K-5 with serious emotional, behavioral, and academic challenges who have not been able to be served with the most intensive public school based supports.
Responsibilities:
- Provide 1:1 and/or group support to assigned children in accordance with individual treatment goals
- Teach social emotional learning (SEL).
- Establish positive, therapeutic relationship with children, and counseling as needed
- Collaborate with educational, Human Service professionals, and caregivers
- Use UKERU and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention to maintain a safe environment and to de-escalate a crisis
- Have effective oral/written skills, and the ability to perform autonomously
Requirements:
- 1 year combination of experience, skills and/or education
- Valid driver’s license and use of a personal vehicle
Structure:
- Full-time
- 217 day annual calendar including:
- School year (175 days) with paid days off during school vacations
- 4 week summer program
- 2+ weeks in-service for ongoing professional development
- AFSCME Union (dues will apply)
- Starting at $22.52 – $23.45
- We offer a competitive salary commensurate to experience
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Benefits:
- Generous time off – Up to 55 days off per year comprised of holiday, CTO and school breaks. Work days including supporting students during School Calendar, July summer services and occasional in-staff training days. Enjoy extended time off in June, August, Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks, February and April Breaks.
- Comprehensive Health Insurance with 80% agency-paid premium support for individuals, couples, and families (pro-rated for part time). This Point of Service Plan features no deductible.
- Two Dental options
- Vision Insurance
- Employer 401(k) contributions
- Employer Paid Life, AD&D, Short Term and Long Term insurance
- Medical & Childcare Flexible Spending Account
- Childcare Stipend
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee referral program with financial payment
- Discounted online undergraduate/graduate courses through Champlain College truED
- Award-winning workplace wellness program including physical fitness groups for staff, financial wellness incentives, and ongoing workplace wellness advocacy and education
- Voluntary benefits from local/international businesses: discounted gym memberships, mobile phone service, ski/snowboard passes, auto/home insurance, and more!
Our Values: Clients are at the heart of our decision making. We are committed to individual and collective well-being and success. We are responsible stewards of the resources entrusted to us. We are steadfast in our practice and pursuit of excellence.
Howard Center is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The agency’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color, LGBTQIA and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” to review Howard Center’s EOE policy.
Howard Center established the Diversity Coordinator position in 2006. In 2015, Howard Center contracted with Abundant Sun to help collect and analyze demographic data. The same year, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) was integrated into the overall Strategic Plan and became accountable to the Board of Directors. In 2017, DEI was formally recognized as a department. In 2022 the organization hired its first DEI director and now runs a department comprising the director, manager, and coordinator of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Today, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department implements key initiatives both within and beyond the Howard Center community:
• Four Employee Affinity Networks (i.e. the Disability Network, the LGBTQIA+ Network, the Multicultural Network, and People of the Global Majority)
• Bi-monthly Roundtable discussions open to all Howard Center employees including: neurodiversity, psychiatric survivors, destigmatizing houselessness, trans affirming care and cultural compassion
• Bi-monthly toolkits on topics such as: Juneteenth, intersectionality, Microaggressions
• Mandatory staff training on unconscious bias, inclusive language, and racial and cultural competence
• contributions to our free and open to the public Community Education Series
• participation in the local Pride Parade and regional conferences
• Collaborative work with community partners
• Policy and systemic advocacy within the agency
• Collaborations with HR to ensure inclusive hiring, retention, and accommodation supports for staff.
