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Yellowbrick’s mission is to serve as the national leader in psychiatric healthcare for emerging young adults and their families. Yellowbrick provides integrated, intensive outpatient treatments based on the frontiers of neuroscience, psychotherapy, life skills, and wellness practice. Yellowbrick’s naturalistic, real-time, sober, open therapeutic community model offers an immersion in expert, collaborative, healing relationships.

“Yellowbrick is an internationally unique treatment center integrating interdisciplinary research with expert clinical experience into a transformative, coherent treatment model.”
– Allan Schore, Ph.D.

To apply, please email CV and Resume to Cynthia Navas (cnavas@yellowbrickprogram.com). Phone calls are not accepted.

Core Competence Staff

Yellowbrick, Evanston, Illinois

Yellowbrick is an innovative behavioral healthcare program located in the heart of Evanston that maintains a Residence for emerging adults aged about 18-early ’30s. We are seeking energetic candidates to provide daily support, structure, guidance, and skills training in all areas of daily living. We are currently recruiting for coverage of all shifts with occasional overnight as needed and weekends. Top candidates will possess a mature disposition, sense of confidence, emotional stability; have excellent communication skills, knowledge of human behavior and development. You will need to be able to function independently with good judgment and serve as a helpful team member. Experience in mental health and psychology-major individuals preferred.

Yellowbrick is a national referral center for the treatment of troubled adolescents and emerging adults. The role of core competence staff (CCS) is an optimal opportunity for immersion within a trauma-informed developmental neurobiological model of intensive treatment.

Yellowbrick offers CCS supervision and multiple opportunities to participate in professional development. Yellowbrick offers a competitive, starting wage of $15.00/hour with a shift differential for overnight shifts, and overtime pay opportunities. We offer a benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, 401(k), and a once-a-year bonus incentive program. Interested individuals should apply online. Please review our website and tour our facility. Please no telephone calls.

Address correspondence to:

Linda Bostick, BSN, MsEd.
Director of Core Competence
Yellowbrick
1560 Sherman Ave. Suite 400
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Or address inquiries of interest to LBostick@yellowbrickprogram.com.

Addiction Counselor (CADC)

Yellowbrick, a national referral resource as an intensive outpatient and residential psychiatric treatment center for emerging adults, is searching for an Addiction Counselor (CADC) with strong interpersonal, communication and administrative skills. Compassionate interest in others, creative problem-solving, attention to detail and spirited collaborative teamwork are essential. Yellowbrick’s treatment model combines psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and life-competence approaches supporting a 12-Step sober community of peer support and accountability. There are many opportunities for professional development and the rewards of working with expert colleagues in a values, mission driven organization.

Provides counseling and support services for individuals with substance use and other compulsive behavior disorders
Conduct individual and group counseling including Rewards Alternative Pathways IOP
Support and explore various forms of 12-Step engagement
Responsible for an assigned caseload and the associated documentation, including relapse prevention and discharge plans; monitors progress and participant’s response to treatment.
A member of the Assessment team completing substance use and comprehensive history assessments.
Adheres to professional standards of ethics.
Participates in daily Clinical Conference
Performs other duties as assigned by supervising staff psychiatrist and Medical Director

Qualifications: Knowledge of ASAM and DSM-V. Must have the clinical skills necessary to identify and assess psychiatric problems related to or caused by substance use or dependence. Must have good oral and written communication skills. Basic knowledge of computer and Microsoft applications.
Education and Experience Requirements: CADC License required. Masters in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, or related field preferred.
Yellowbrick offers a strong, competitive pay and compensation package.

Address correspondence to:

Cynthia Navas
Director of Business Services
Yellowbrick
1560 Sherman Ave. Suite 400
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Or address inquiries of interest to cnavas@yellowbrickprogram.com.

All Yellowbrick Staff are Committed to Accountability and Outcome

Leadership Accountability to Yellowbrick Patients and Families
To conduct oneself with integrity. To provide clinical services at a level of excellence. Maintain a commitment to an effective outcome. Patients’ needs always come first!

Leadership Accountability to Yellowbrick Staff
To provide effective leadership through example and collaboration and provide opportunities for staff personal and professional growth. To seek opportunity to acknowledge and reward staff contribution to the YellowbricK mission.

Leadership Accountability to Self
To maintain humility regarding the leadership responsibility for others’ lives and a sincere commitment to growing personally and professionally through learning from others and self-education.

Leadership Accountability to Community
To contribute to the community’s education and welfare and a genuine commitment to increasing public awareness of issues related to mental illness and health.

Leadership Accountability to the Profession
To maintain uncompromising ethical, clinical, and scientific standards.

Leadership Accountability to Yellowbrick
To exemplify and contribute to the mission, vision, and values of Yellowbrick. To protect YellowbricK within organizational, professional, ethical, and legal guidelines.

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Yellowbrick collaborates with adolescents and emerging adults, ages 16-30's, their families and participating professionals toward the development and implementation of a strategic “Life Plan.” An integrative, multi-specialty consultation clarifies strengths, limitations, and risks, and defines motivations, goals and choices.