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Trauma Services for Children & Youth/Programa para Latinos Therapist
40 hours/week

Direct Services Program/Programa para Latinos – A Summary:
Our Direct Services and Programa para Latinos Programs consist of Staff, Interns, and Volunteer trauma counselors and therapists who work together to provide a variety of support services to child, adolescent and adult victim-survivors of all forms of direct and indirect trauma from violence and abuse, particularly sexual abuse or assault trauma and immigration trauma. We believe it is crucial to focus on the intergenerational effects of trauma on individuals within the context of family, communities and socio-political issues impacting the ability to heal and thrive. The major components of our program include the following:

  • A 24-hour confidential crisis line
  • Crisis, Short-term, and Long-term Counseling
  • Individual and Group Counseling
  • Advocacy & Accompaniment
  • Community Outreach and Collaboration
  • Collaboration (within the agency and with others working in the field) to expand the knowledge base for understanding responses to trauma (including immigration trauma), the healing process and interventions supportive of individual and collective healing
  • Training of other service providers regarding what we have learned or are learning
Trauma Therapist for Children and Youth (TSCY) and Programa para Latinos Job Description:
The role of the Direct Services Team is to assure quality crisis intervention and counseling services to all communities of San Mateo County, with a particular focus on Latinos. Primary tasks for the TSCY/Programa Therapist position include but are not exclusive to the following:
  • Collaboration with the Direct Services Operations Coordinator, Programa para Latinos Coordinator and Director/Trauma Programs Specialist for the timely and clinically accurate provision of trauma counseling, accompaniment and advocacy services to Latino child and adolescent victim-survivors and their families;
  • Participate in supervision or consultation with Supervision and Mentoring Staff, as experience indicates;
  • Provide trauma counseling services, accompaniment and advocacy to children, adults and families;
  • Provide on-call crisis line back-up support as needed and shared with other Staff;
  • Collaborate in planning and implementing outreach to the Latino communities in San Mateo County;
  • Perform other agency responsibilities as needed.
Program-Specific Qualifications:
Applicants must demonstrate the following qualities, skills, and experiences:
  • Graduate degree in a psychology-related field; licensed or on track for licensing in your field:
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, oral and written, including ability to listen, clarify, validate, respectfully challenge; interest in supporting the skill development and thus personal healing of all Staff;
  • Strong interest in and commitment to developing and/or expanding trauma-focused counseling and advocacy skills including openness to an eclectic range of interventions for supporting child victim-survivor healing;
  • Ability to take initiative, provide leadership combined with openness and patience in learning agency culture;
  • Ability to balance autonomy, accountability, and collaboration;
  • Ability to manage many projects simultaneously (i.e., multi-task) while attending to detail and quality;
  • Ability to effectively outreach to various communities with ease, combining humility and confidence;
  • Basic word-processing and database skills (i.e., Microsoft Excel) or ability to acquire skills quickly;
  • Multi-cultural and multi-lingual (Spanish essential).
General Qualifications:
  • Appreciation of the agency’s philosophical understanding regarding violence and oppression (outlined in the “About the Agency” section of this announcement);
  • Demonstrable commitment to inclusiveness and making the agency’s services accessible to all people;
  • Demonstrable commitment to your personal healing as key to working responsibly and effectively with others;
  • Demonstrable commitment to developing trauma-focused counseling and advocacy skills;
  • Willingness to work flexible hours, including some weekend and evening hours;
  • Demonstrable commitment to creating and maintaining a work environment reflective of the agency’s mission and philosophy regarding working relations;
  • Work with Agency Operations Coordinator to contribute to the operation and growth of the agency by receiving mentoring and mentoring others
  • Perform administrative/operational and maintenance tasks in collaboration with all other staff;
  • Ability to balance autonomy, responsibility, and collaboration;
  • Strong organizational skills and interest in maintaining a structured, warm, healing-conducive environment;
  • Valid California driver’s license, insurance, and reliable access to transportation.
Salary/Benefits:
$42,543 to $49,248 yearly salary. Health, dental, and vision benefits. Annual two weeks sick leave, three weeks vacation increasing after third year. RTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Application Process:
Submit cover letter and resume via email to jobs@rapetraumaservices.org or via fax.650-652-0596 or post mail to address below. Please send all applications clearly labeled “Tr Ther App – (Your Name)”. )”. In a cover letter briefly describe your view of the core impacts of trauma from violence on Latino child victim-survivors and their families and communities and your ideas to address those issues. Explain your investment in working with this population and what you bring to the work. Your letter must be succinct, not to exceed 1 page. We strongly encourage individuals who represent one or more underserved populations in San Mateo County (e.g., people of color, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, people with disabilities, immigrants, etc.) to apply.
The position is open until filled.

Also consider a Counseling Internship or one of our Volunteer Opportunities.

We are currently seeking Spanish-speaking Counseling Interns.

About the Agency

Rape Trauma Services (RTS) of San Mateo County strives to eliminate all forms of violence, with a special focus on sexual assault and abuse. Our scope of services includes a 24-hour hotline, counseling, advocacy, accompaniment, self-defense training, rape and other violence prevention education in schools, and outreach to underserved populations.

It is our strong belief that violence must be examined on an individual level (e.g., sexual abuse, rape) as well as a collective level (e.g., genocide, war), and in the context of societal inequities (e.g., sexism, racism, heterosexism). We also believe that violent behaviors by individuals as well as societal inequities perpetrated on a collective level are, at their core, about unhealed effects of trauma and ensuing cycles of violence.

We seek candidates who share our vision and philosophy including core beliefs such as (1) we all have been affected by violence and inequities; (2) healing from the effects of those experiences is a life-long process; and (3) commitment to one's healing is a key to our well-being, effective relationships with others, a healthy and equitable work environment, and meaningful political change.