The Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor will work with children and youth with an Autism Spectrum diagnosis; developmental disabilities; an FASD diagnosis; with complex developmental behavioural and/or medical conditions or other support needs.

The Behaviour and Family Support Counsellor responsibilities Include:

• Providing in-home assessment, education, support, skill building and behaviours intervention and support.
• Coordinating services with other community partners and stakeholders.
• Increasing the capacity of families served to respond effectively to their child or youth’s individual needs, and to promote a strong parent-child relationship.
   
• Creating a personalized support plan that may involve strategies to address unmet needs expressed through behavior using intervention techniques, enhancing coping and parenting skills, increasing parental capacity, and fostering community and natural supports.
   

• Providing behaviour therapy and positive parenting and other parenting and child coping strategies with a behaviour and trauma informed approach and developmental lens

  Other responsibilities include:

• Building relationships and connections within the community to improve service integration.
• Completing Functional Behaviour Analysis as required.
  Completing Positive Behaviour Support Plans as required.
   
• Appling culturally safe and agile, trauma informed, relational and person / family- centered modalities.