About the role
POSITION SUMMARY
JCCA is seeking a compassionate, organized, and dedicated Case Planner to join our Residential Treatment Campus in Pleasantville, NY. This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in helping children and adolescents navigate complex challenges, strengthen family connections, and work toward safe and stable permanency.
Our Residential Treatment Campus provides a safe, structured, and supportive environment for youth ages 5–21 who need intensive behavioral, emotional, and developmental support. The campus includes four specialized programs:
Pleasantville Cottage School - serves children with long-term emotional and behavioral challenges
Edenwald Center – serves children who have low IQs, autism and other developmental disorders
START - serves children who need assessment, residential treatment and intensive intervention for a short period of time
Center for Healing - treats children who are the victims of sexual abuse and/or commercial sexual exploitation
As a Case Planner, you will be an essential member of a multidisciplinary team, working closely with youth, families, clinicians, residential staff, schools, community providers, and regulatory agencies. You will help ensure that each young person has an individualized plan focused on safety, well-being, family connections, and permanency .
SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES:
Case Planning & Family Engagement
• Develop and implement individualized case management, treatment, and discharge plans in collaboration with the youth, family, and multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in Family Team Conferences, Service Plan Reviews, Individual Reviews, and other team meetings.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with youth, families, caregivers, and service providers.
• Support and facilitate family and sibling visitation, including developing visitation plans and providing supervision when needed.
• Coordinate required assessments upon admission and support the youth's transition throughout treatment.
Permanency & Advocacy
• Advocate for the needs and best interests of youth while working toward safe and timely permanency.
• Serve as a liaison with ACS, DSS, CSE, OCFS, and other regulatory agencies, as well as attorneys and officers of the court.
• Represent the team at Family Court and QRTP hearings and communicate court outcomes and follow-up needs to the treatment team.
• Collaborate with community providers to support successful and timely discharge from the QRTP setting.
• Identify, coordinate, and follow up on community resources and services needed by youth and families.
Youth Support & Crisis Response
• Work closely with Clinical and Child Care teams to support youth during periods of crisis.
• Participate in crisis intervention using a trauma-informed, strength-based, and youth-centered approach .
