Job Description
Evolve offers the best in therapy and recovery options for residential and outpatient treatment programs for teens. We help adolescents 12 to 17 years old struggling with mental health, substance abuse, or behavior issues. Evolve offers a one-of-a-kind experience that serves teens and their families from across the country from our California-based treatment centers. We focus on positivity, equipping teens for change, and growing the whole person in a setting that’s comfortable and feels like home.
We’re dedicated to clinical excellence, and we know that you’ll bring your unique contribution to healing families in profound ways. Our work here is special, it’s meaningful, and it’s bigger than all of us. That’s why it takes a true community, aligned in purpose, and committed to lifting each other up each day.
Job Summary: The Academic Coordinator serves as the dedicated point-person for all things academic for our clients and families during treatment. This role involves providing tutoring and supervision to clients during dedicated school time, coordinating with schools to ensure clients have schoolwork, linking families with academic resources, and supporting families through the IEP process. This position will work at one 6 bed residential program supporting 6 clients.
Essential Functions - Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure that client’s academic needs are met alongside their mental health needs.
- Collaborate with clients and families to develop an individualized academic program including learning goals for each student during their time in RTC.
- Facilitates positive learning experiences for clients and provides 1:1 support with schoolwork
- Comfortable participating and collaborating in IEP meetings for clients, able to provide parents with assistance in advocating for their child in IEP meetings
- Collaborate with parents to get Release of Information forms completed for schools and provide school notes if needed
- Understanding of common accommodations schools are able to provide students with learning differences, ADHD, emotional disturbance
- Collaborates with school counselors/teachers to ensure client’s academic needs are met.
- Maintains safety of students through close observation and monitoring through “line of sight” supervision.
- Consults with Primary Therapist, Program Directors, Ed Consultants and parents providing recommendations and accommodations
- Provides weekly updates to parents on client’s academic progress
- Demonstrates an understanding of reading transcripts and academic credits, alternative school options including GED, virtual school options, community colleges, vocational schools
- May create and facilitate weekly study skills groups as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications: - Bachelors Degree
- Experience tutoring middle or high school students preferred
- Customer service experience preferred
- Ability to stay calm in crisis situations, possess a passion for working with individuals struggling w/ mental health issues
- Must have excellent time management skills with strong attention to detail and strong written and verbal communication skills
- Highly proficient in navigating Microsoft Suite and internet based school platforms
- Must possess a valid California driver’s license and have a reliable means of transportation
- Must be able to pass a LiveScan background check and clear federal and state criminal background checks, and child abuse indexes
- Demonstrates knowledge of IEP and 504 plans preferred or willingness to learn
- Must be willing to interact with COVID-positive clients, as needed
This is a Part-Time onsite position - 4 days a week 1pm-5pm(16 hours a week total)$25/hr For information on Evolve's privacy practices, see the Evolve California Personnel Privacy Notice located at
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