Published: May 12, 2025 - The Group Facilitator is responsible for interviewing and evaluating clients to complete the registration process while recruiting families and coordinating services with community providers, including substance abuse prevention. This position utilizes evidence-based curricula such as the Strengthening Families Program and Brighter Future Initiative to deliver parenting, children's social skills, and family life skills training for high-risk families. This role ensures timely client updates, maintains required documentation, and provides flexible, accessible services in various community locations, prioritizing client needs.

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1. Group Facilitator, Green Valley Solutions, Sacramento, CA
Job Summary:
- Using online digital platforms and elements of face-to-face to hold group or individual learning sessions, ensuring that the content is relevant to those attending
- Deliver candidate pool assessments to evaluate client readiness to be put forward for Employer Services vacancies
- Ensure the required number of group interventions are delivered each month
- Ensure the minimum standards of attendance at group sessions are met
- Deliver preparation sessions to candidates to up-skill and prepare them to follow best practice at assessment centres / pre-screens
- Review of candidates following completion of the assessment centres / pre-screens in line with the success criteria
- Create and communicate a quarterly timetable of the different modules and their availability to the team
- Provide monthly statistics in relation to performance and online engagement by the end of each month
- Ensure that all information is accurately recorded on systems in a timely manner
- Contact all clients on the attendee list prior to the start of the session
- Work with Managers, Employment Coaches and Employer Services Team about the development needs of the programme
Skills on Resume:
- Digital Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Group Delivery (Hard Skills)
- Attendance Monitoring (Soft Skills)
- Session Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Candidate Review (Hard Skills)
- Timetable Creation (Hard Skills)
- Performance Reporting (Hard Skills)
2. Group Facilitator, Horizon Counseling Services, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Managing group activities and facilitating group conversations
- Provide referrals to other support services
- Engaging in supervision with the supervisor regarding the running of the group
- Planning and scheduling of dates and activities
- Encourage the growth of support groups and others to volunteer as part of the program
- Attend and complete training on request.
- Work according to all TSA values, policy, and procedures
- Utilize online meeting systems to engage participants
- Operate a motor vehicle safely and obey all traffic laws.
Skills on Resume:
- Group Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Service Referrals (Hard Skills)
- Supervision Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Activity Planning (Hard Skills)
- Volunteer Encouragement (Soft Skills)
- Training Completion (Hard Skills)
- Policy Compliance (Soft Skills)
- Online Engagement (Hard Skills)
3. Group Facilitator, Bright Horizons Mental Health, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Interview and evaluate clients to complete the registration process.
- Recruit families and coordinate services with other community providers, including substance abuse prevention services.
- Utilize the Strengthening Families Program and Brighter Future Initiative curriculum, which is an evidence-based parenting skill, children's social skills, and a family life skills training program specifically designed for high-risk families.
- Provide LifeSkills Training to clients and families.
- Demonstrate competency in the areas of diversity, e.g., culture, race/ethnicity, religion, language, social customs, disabilities, economics, gender, and age.
- Conduct face-to-face contact with families, per program standards, to promote and teach healthy parent-child communication.
- Complete all required paperwork/documentation, per program standards.
- Attend all required staff meetings.
- Provide timely client updates to other involved employees/agencies.
- Provide flexible hours and diverse and accessible locations and make meeting families where they are a priority. e.g., community/neighborhood centers, churches, schools, family resource centers, hospitals, public meeting rooms, etc.
Skills on Resume:
- Client Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Service Coordination (Hard Skills)
- Curriculum Delivery (Hard Skills)
- LifeSkills Training (Hard Skills)
- Diversity Awareness (Soft Skills)
- Family Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Accuracy (Hard Skills)
- Meeting Flexibility (Soft Skills)
4. Group Facilitator, Wellness Pathways, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Provides case management services to pregnant and parenting teens and their children in high-risk areas with the goal of promoting adolescent and infant development, healthy family functioning and appropriate parenting.
- Maintains a caseload of 20-25 participants.
- Conducts intake and assessment, home visit with clients and parenting group sessions.
- Completes participant care plan and updates every six months.
- Enters participant's information in the database system and updates information within the prescribed time frames.
- Provides accurate and timely recording of all home visits, infant/child activities, vision and hearing information, immunizations and all other required data according to the guidelines, policy and procedures of the agency and the funder.
- Implements the Parents as Teachers evidence model in service delivery.
- Initiates weekly to bi-monthly home-based services for all program participants within one week of referral.
- Provides services to clients, their infants, and families.
- Present pertinent Association materials and information to group members.
Skills on Resume:
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
- Caseload Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Client Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Care Planning (Hard Skills)
- Data Entry (Hard Skills)
- Accurate Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Model Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Service Delivery (Soft Skills)
5. Group Facilitator, Insight Therapy Group, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Maintains an educational and supportive relationship with clients throughout their pregnancy, during the delivery and post-partum time period.
- Engages clients in services by greeting parents and children appropriately, promoting a positive connection and a family partnership.
- Facilities referrals to appropriate services and/or identified by either the parent, educator or participant.
- Prepares weekly and monthly activity reports on their community outreach activities for the hard to reach teen parents and networks with the community to inform them of program services.
- Notifies the supervisor/director and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) of any suspicions and findings of abuse or neglect.
- Identifies new resources and makes suggestions regarding the utilization of current resources to the advantage of participants.
- Collaborates with service agencies on behalf of the participant.
- Conduct tours of the program, respond to inquiries from other agencies, visit agencies that are potential referral sources, and attend community meetings to build awareness.
- Participates in continuous performance quality improvement of services.
- Utilizes s curriculum designed in 4 modules that provide supportive education information to the pregnant and parenting teens through weekly group interactions, at the area high school in the Maywood community that include pre and post-test group evaluations.
Skills on Resume:
- Client Support (Soft Skills)
- Family Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Service Referrals (Hard Skills)
- Outreach Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Abuse Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Resource Identification (Hard Skills)
- Agency Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Curriculum Facilitation (Hard Skills)
6. Group Facilitator, Harmony Counseling Center, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Facilitates and or Co-facilitates psycho-educational groups for CSSD-referred clients.
- Provides case management duties (telephone contact with clients regarding appointments, contact with referral sources, etc.) to clients assigned to the group.
- Facilitates program orientation for newly referred clients, ensuring client understands and agrees to the service and ensuring compliance with agency policies.
- Clearly and concisely advises clients regarding program guidelines.
- Completes all required documentation (e.g., progress notes, monthly client updates, docket reports, and discharge reports for referral source) following established program protocols and timelines.
- Attends clinical supervision/training sessions, as required by contract (e.g., 12 two-hour trainings and an annual training up to eight hours for the Explore program).
- Communicates client/group/agency issues to the Program Manager in a timely manner.
- Submits vouchers within one month of the date of service.
- Continues to develop knowledge and understanding about the history, traditions, values, family systems, and artistic expression of groups served as well as uses appropriate methodological approaches, skills, and techniques that reflect an understanding of culture.
- Attend all grant-required meetings and trainings
Skills on Resume:
- Group Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Case Management (Hard Skills)
- Program Orientation (Soft Skills)
- Guideline Communication (Soft Skills)
- Documentation Completion (Hard Skills)
- Training Participation (Hard Skills)
- Issue Reporting (Soft Skills)
- Cultural Competency (Soft Skills)