Forestdale, Inc.

Posted on August 5, 2022

To support an additional full-time Bilingual Clinician to help them to better aid the needs of the young mothers served via their Strong Mothers’ Domestic Violence and Trauma-Informed Mental Health programs. The Strong Mothers interdisciplinary team provides wrap-around services to pregnant and parenting women from low-income neighborhoods in Queens to become better parents through intensive case management, peer support, and mentoring. The Clinicians provide behavioral health interventions for participants who exhibit a history of trauma. They host individual and group trauma-informed therapy and domestic violence and anger management psycho-educational workshops to help young pregnant and parenting women to overcome their traumas and become more effective parents. Forestdale is a Queens, NY child welfare agency which supports family members to better meet life’s challenges through its foster care and foster care prevention services.