Aspiranet’s Post

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My name's Mike Derose. I'm a licensed Marriage and Family therapist, and I am the Behavioral Health Division Director here at Aspiranet. Part of the reason why I came to Aspiranet, why I stay at Aspiranet, is because I love to be able to give back, to be able to be a catalyst of change for children and families to help them thrive. Overcome obstacles that they may be experiencing in their lives. There's a sense of enjoyment with that, you know, a sense of being able to give back. We also are really innovative here at Aspiranet and what I mean by that is we try and stay on top of changes as it relates to best practices in the field of mental health, behavioral health at the STRTP, which is the short term residential therapeutic program in particular, we've adopted some really fantastic. Evidence base and promising practices, all of our staff are trained in those modalities and so you get to experience that you get to be trained in that it helps sort of broaden your horizons, deepen your resume, continue your professional development, your personal development you're learning some of those modalities are really focused on trauma and children and youth who have experienced trauma so we utilize life space crisis intervention a fantastic. Training and and tool set to be able to help identify those that are about to experience something that would result in crisis in order to try and help regulate them prevent that from boiling over into something that could become maladaptive or or or dangerous or or self harmful or harmful to others. And so it teaches you really the concrete skills and being able to identify that and intervene and then on the flip side of that if somebody actually is. Experiencing a crisis in the moment, it's how do I intervene with that youth and help to regulate and calm them and and bring them back down to re-enter whatever that environment is that they were in, Whether it's in school, whether it's in their residential program or what we call their cottages. Very homelike setting for these youth that are placed with us and getting treatment the whole time that they're there in order to help them step down to a lower level of care. We also train and certify folks in what's called motivational interviewing. Again, another fantastic training for folks. Regardless of what point in time you are in your career, it really helps you to engage with youth with with families, with adults to identify their level of acceptance motivation where they are at that particular point in time in regards to being ready. Being ready for for therapeutic intervention, being ready to move on, to move forward. One of the foundational components or trainings of the short term residential therapeutic program is called ARC. It's attachment regulation competency. It's a fantastic, it's a fantastic base training which we we focus everything else around and really helps our supporting staff from our childcare workers or therapeutic youth counselors to our support counselors, our clinicians. Social workers and management staff alike to all speak a common language you know, to all know exactly what the other one is doing. There are interventions that are taught and trained and utilized in this modality that that everybody can use. There's a lot of focus on being able to help with regulation to be able to understand, better understand behaviors that are being displayed. We say it's stages, not ages, right? So really understanding the developmental level of the youth that you're working with as opposed to just simply their chronological age and what's going to be what's going to be the best approach in order to connect with and work with that youth to move them forward. But one of the greatest. Things about it is what it does for staff and so it helps staff understand what they may be doing that contributes to a particular interaction, what they may be doing that could be reflective in terms of how somebody's going to react. But then just really getting that self insight as to whether you're reacting emotionally, personally or whether you're in the zone of, you know, professionally reacting and and keeping your. You're transference or your your own biases, you know aside and or identify in those and being able to work on those. We provide clinical supervision that we think is pretty state-of-the-art, always on top of you know, changes that are going on and updates with legislation, the Board of Behavioral Sciences, etcetera. We have really seasoned licensed folks that are our clinical supervisors here at Aspiranet. They take passion and what it is they do. They're very supportive of our staff and helping them to grow, to learn to move forward so that ultimately our clinicians can all become licensed. If they're not already licensed, you're part of a multidisciplinary team when you come in to work in this particular program. There are therapeutic youth counselors, there's social workers, there's clinicians. Everyone's working as part of a team on behalf of supporting the client. So you're going to meet regularly. They have these multidisciplinary team meetings that are happening at least once a month per youth that are in the cottages in, in, in the program. You also get to participate. And, and potentially facilitate child and family teams or CFT's as we call it. So you get to collaborate frequently outside of just our internal system, but also with county social workers, teachers, probation officers and natural supports. So you get to work with the natural support systems in the child's life. They're they're family, whether that's biological kin Foster, you get to work with clergy, tribal councils. Um, neighbours, neighborhoods, The idea really is to try and figure out how you can be that person to help the youth step down to a lower level of care successfully without them bouncing back and forth, losing placements or going into higher levels of care. But focusing on how can the natural supports come and provide strengths and skills and supports to the youth so that the youth and the family aren't always focused on professional supports. Which are not always going to be there. So I really encourage you to apply for our positions, to look at our website for open positions that we have and come join our team.