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Only 30 miles from New York City, the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, Inc. is an outpatient mental health center for children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, developmental, social or family problems. The Center is dedicated to reducing emotional suffering and dysfunctional behavior and to helping each individual achieve optimal potential. With a multidisciplinary professional team, the Center provides diagnostic assessments and treatment services for youngsters and their families in Stamford, Greenwich, Darien and New Canaan, Connecticut. Work with parents and collaboration with other community agencies is emphasized in all our programs.

Treatment programs are targeted to all youngsters with mental health problems with priority access provided for those with the highest risk symptoms and those experiencing trauma or crisis. The Center provides services to clients from a broad range of economic backgrounds with a commitment to serving lower income and uninsured families and to providing services that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for our multi-ethnic community. We allow for continuing education, generous benefits, flexible hours, supervision and diverse patient population.

The Center provides a supportive professional environment with extensive in service training and supervisory experiences, continuing education, generous benefits and flexible hours. The following positions are available in our main Stamford facility. All positions require cultural competency/sensitivity to work with diverse population. Bicultural candidates with Spanish or Haitian Creole fluency encouraged to apply. EOE.


BILINGUAL SPANISH/ENGLISH PSYCHOTHERAPISTS:
Responsibilties: To provide crisis assessment and 6-week stabilization for children and teens from Spanish-speaking families. Also to therapy for small caseload of long and short-term Spanish-speaking children/teens and their families in Child and Family Therapy program.
Requirements: MSW or equivalent required. Minimum 2 years psychotherapy experience, crisis assessment experience, license eligible in CT preferred.
Please send resumes to: DM, CGC, 196 Grey Rock Pl, Stamford, CT 06901: Fax: DM- 203-353-1524; Email: generalmailbox@childguidancect.org subject DM/CRISIS

Requirements: MSW or equivalent required. Minimum 2 years psychotherapy experience, crisis assessment experience, license eligible in CT preferred.

Please send resumes to: DM, CGC, 196 Grey Rock Pl, Stamford, CT 06901: Fax: DM- 203-353-1524; Email: generalmailbox@childguidancect.org subject DM/CRISIS