Bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Job Summary

The Alex House Project is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that supports pregnant and parenting youth and young adults through parenting education, workforce development, leadership opportunities, case management, referrals, and community-based services.

Founded in 2013 by a former young mother, The Alex House Project uses a peer-led and culturally responsive model to help young parents strengthen their families, increase stability, and pursue education, employment, and long-term economic mobility.

Position Summary

The Alex House Project is seeking an experienced, compassionate, and community-centered Bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is fluent in English and Spanish. The LCSW will provide trauma-informed clinical support, counseling, crisis intervention, assessments, referrals, and consultation within The Alex House Project’s community-based parenting and family-support programs. The position will primarily serve pregnant and parenting youth and young adults from historically marginalized and underserved communities. This is not a traditional clinic-based role. The LCSW will work within a community nonprofit environment and collaborate closely with parent educators, case management staff, workforce development staff, leadership, families, and community partners.

The ideal candidate will have experience in maternal and paternal health, youth and young adult services, LGBTQIA+ parent support, family support, trauma-informed care, and community-based social work.

Primary Responsibilities

Direct Clinical and Family Support — 50%

• Provide individual, short-term, trauma-informed counseling and emotional support to pregnant and parenting youth and young adults.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments and identify participants’ strengths, needs, risks, and support systems.
• Develop participant-centered support and service plans.
• Provide crisis intervention, risk assessment, safety planning, and stabilization support when needed.
• Support participants experiencing stress, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, family conflict, intimate partner violence, housing instability, parenting challenges, or other barriers.
• Provide services in both English and Spanish.
• Facilitate support groups, wellness workshops, and psychoeducational sessions.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and confidential clinical documentation.
• Refer participants to outside mental health, medical, legal, housing, and social service providers when specialized or long-term services are required.
• Follow up on referrals and assist participants with navigating community-based systems.

Maternal Health and Parenting Program Support — 15%

• Provide clinical support within TAHP’s parenting education and maternal health programs.
• Support pregnant and parenting participants during the prenatal, postpartum, and early parenting periods.
• Identify signs of perinatal mood and anxiety concerns and make appropriate referrals.
• Collaborate with parenting educators to strengthen participant engagement, retention, and emotional wellness.
• Participate in case conferences involving participants with complex needs.
• Help staff understand how trauma, stress, family relationships, and environmental barriers may affect parenting and program participation.
• Develop workshops related to maternal wellness, healthy relationships, stress management, self-care, emotional regulation, and family stability.

Community-Based Collaboration — 15%

• Build trusting relationships with youth, young adults, children, and families from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Strengthen engagement with Spanish-speaking participants and families.
• Collaborate with community organizations, schools, shelters, group homes, healthcare providers, foster care agencies, and social service providers.
• Represent The Alex House Project at community meetings, outreach events, and partner convenings.
• Help establish and maintain a strong network of referral partners.
• Support culturally responsive and accessible service delivery.

Staff Consultation and Capacity Building — 15%

• Provide clinical consultation to parent educators, case managers, social worker-interns, and program leadership.
• Help staff maintain appropriate professional boundaries while supporting participants.
• Provide guidance on crisis response, mandated reporting, confidentiality, participant safety, and referral procedures.
• Support staff training related to trauma-informed care, maternal mental health, youth development, cultural responsiveness, and family engagement.
• Assist with strengthening internal clinical workflows, documentation standards, and confidentiality practices.
• Supervise social work interns and case manager

Evaluation and Quality Improvement — 5%

• Support the development of measurable outcomes for the LCSW position.
• Track services provided, referrals, participant engagement, and emerging needs.
• Contribute to annual grant reports and program updates.
• Participate in program evaluation and continuous quality improvement.
• Identify service gaps, lessons learned, and opportunities to strengthen TAHP’s community-based support model.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited institution.
• Licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in New York State.
• Fluency in English and Spanish.
• Ability to provide professional services, conduct assessments, and communicate with families in both languages.
• Minimum of three to five years of relevant clinical social work experience.
• Experience working with adolescents, youth, and young adults.
• Experience working in community-based, nonprofit, school-based, family-support, maternal health, or social service settings.
• Experience serving pregnant or parenting youth, young families, LGBTQIA+ headed families, and communities impacted by poverty and systemic inequities.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed, strength-based, culturally responsive, and person-centered practices.
• Strong assessment, crisis intervention, safety planning, referral, and documentation skills.
• Understanding mandated reporting, confidentiality, professional ethics, and clinical boundaries.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary and peer-led environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in maternal health, reproductive health, perinatal support, or maternal mental health.
• Experience working with Black, Latino, immigrant, foster care-involved, shelter-based, justice-impacted, or low-income communities.
• Knowledge of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
• Experience supporting survivors of domestic violence, community violence, childhood trauma, or family disruption.
• Experience facilitating support groups and psychoeducational workshops.
• Familiarity with New York City community resources and public systems.
• Experience of providing clinical consultation to non-clinical staff.
• Experience helping a nonprofit organization strengthen clinical policies, procedures, confidentiality practices, or service-delivery systems.
• Supervisory experience with social work interns and/or case managers

Core Competencies

• Community-Based Social Work
• Maternal and Family Support
• Youth and Young Adult Development
• Trauma-Informed Practice
• Cultural Humility
• Spanish-Language Service Delivery
• Crisis Intervention
• Family Engagement
• Clinical Documentation

Pay: $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Experience:

• Clinical counseling: 3 years (Required)

Language:

• Spanish, English (Required)

License/Certification:

• Clinical License Number (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Brooklyn, NY 11201 (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

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