Barrier Free Living Family of Companies
Helping people with disabilities help themselves
Freedom House for People with Disabilities
Secret Garden
BFL Apartment
Job Description
Name: ________________________ Position Title: Coordinator of Family Services
Signature: ____________________________ Date: ______________________
Exempt
Full Time Hours Per Week: 35.0
Agency/Program: Freedom House
Supervisor: Assistant Director
Barrier Free Living (BFL) is dedicated to helping New Yorkers with disabilities live
independently in the community. Through its various programs, BFL provides a broad
range of residential and non-residential services to disabled survivors of domestic
violence, transitional shelter to the disabled homeless, and outreach to physically
disabled individuals with mental health and/or chemical addiction issues. Services
include case management; housing placements; independent living skills training;
occupational therapy; short- and long-term individual counseling; advocacy within the
medical, mental health, child welfare, law enforcement, and criminal justice systems; and
referrals to outside services.
Freedom House provides emergency shelter and domestic violence’s services for
individuals, including those with disabilities and their children. As a crisis shelter for
victims of domestic violence we provide comprehensive services to families and single
individuals to assist them in recovering from their experiences of trauma. Services
include individual and group counseling, advocacy, case management, assistance with
housing and government benefits, on-site child care, occupational therapy, on site LPN
and mental health referrals. This state-of-the-art facility is the first completely accessible
domestic violence shelter for individuals with disabilities in the country.
- Complete family assessments for all families who enter shelter;
- Maintain an individual caseload, providing children ages 4 and older;
- Facilitate Child and Teen Domestic Violence support groups
- Support parents during their stay at Freedom House;
- Hold a caseload of 2-4 adult residents;
- Provide referrals and information to outside agencies related to child development,
- Complete phone screenings for admission into the shelter;
- Provide intervention in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, as Mandated by
- Participate in all appropriate trainings and meetings both internally and externally;
- Maintain adequate and timely case records utilizing the FamCare case management
Qualifications:
- Licensed Master’s degree in Social Work or Mental Health Counseling preferred.
- Experience with child therapy modalities;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work as part of a team,
- Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word and Google Docs and database
- Bilingual Spanish/English, ASL Knowledge a plus, but not required;
Start Date: ASAP.
Annual Salary: $59,000 (if licensed $60,000)
Hours per week: 35 – Monday through Friday with three days 10:00am – 6:00pm.
This is a blended schedule with 3 days onsite and 2 days remote;
Benefit Package: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan, Paid
vacation, Sick days, Personal days, Paid National Holidays and more.
BFL provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants, with employment based
upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination because of race,
color, national origin, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status,
marital status, creed, genetic disposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other
protected characteristic as established by law.