Family Guidance Center
Springfield, IL, USA
Jun 24, 2025
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- 2924 Stanton St, Springfield, IL 62703, USA
- $20.00 - $21.00 hourly
- Jun 24, 2025
Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS)
Entry Level
Full time
Family Guidance Centers, Inc. (FGC), a not-for-profit behavioral healthcare organization, treats and prevents substance abuse, as well as an array of other related problems. Since 1969, FGC's comprehensive programming has educated and guided individuals toward their full potential as productive members within their own families and our society.
Essential Duties:
- Conduct outreach to people who use drugs, people experiencing homelessness, and communities. Also, educate on overdose prevention and distribute overdose prevention supplies.
- Describe FGC programs, services, and eligibility requirements in laymen’s terms to people struggling with opioid and alcohol addiction and those at risk of overdosing, as well as family members or friends of people struggling with addiction, informing and assisting them to gain immediate access to treatment.
- Develop and direct prospective referrals to FGC and other treatment providers, as appropriate and in accordance with patients’ needs and wishes.
- Develop referral relationships with shelter partners, homeless outreach teams, local task forces, hospital social workers, faith-based and local community organizations, and other community-based organizations as appropriate, serving as their liaison to accessing treatment services offered by FGC.
- Complete daily activity logs to accurately record outreach efforts, client interactions, and services provided.
- Assist, when necessary, with delivering medications to FGC patients who are incarcerated or have difficulty accessing the clinic.
- Demonstrate professionalism in working with patients, staff, and other outside professionals or collaterals.
- Participate in supervision with Program Manager and appropriate continuing education activities related to care management and maintenance of relevant certification or licensure.
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:00 am – 3:30 pm. Must work a minimum of 40 hours per week.
Hours may vary based on the programming needs of the agency and flexibility is required.
Start Date: ASAP
Pay Rate : $20/hr.
Location: Stanton 2924 Stanton St. Springfield IL 62703
Family Guidance Centers, Inc is a Drug Free Environment, an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Experience and Skills:
Education and/or Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent. Associate's degree preferred. Experience in behavioral health, community health outreach, substance use harm reduction, withdrawal management programs, medication-assisted treatment, and/or community relations required. Certification as a Recovery Support Specialist or education as a Community Health Worker preferred. Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Current driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
Job Benefits:
Our organization provides a comprehensive benefit package for full time employment that includes health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance and a 401k pension plan. Vacation, sick and personal days with paid holidays off are included in our PTO compensation package.
About Family Guidance Center
14 outpatient clinics. 2 residential treatment centers. 7 mobile vans. Over 9,000 patients served annually with substance use disorder treatment services.
FGC is a state- and federally-licensed and accredited not-for-profit behavioral health treatment provider. We offer a diverse range of evidence-based substance use and mental health services throughout Illinois, including all three medications approved to treat opioid use disorder.
We serve everyone, regardless of insurance status, income, or documentation status.
We believe in harm reduction.
At FGC, no one is terminated from care for returning to use. We provide harm reduction supplies and education to our patients, and bring our services to the community in order to meet people where they are. We employ peer recovery specialists to connect with patients and maintain relationships over time.
We prioritize access, offering medication assisted recovery services outside of clinic walls, utilizing telehealth to immediately connect patients to care, and providing extensive transportation assistance to our patients to ensure equitable access to services.
We are ground-breaking.
FGC operates the first mobile medication unit in Illinois approved to carry methadone on a van, as well as the statewide 24/7 immediate access helpline that connects callers to a physician for opioid and alcohol use disorder medications. Through these programs, we continue to demonstrate that high quality medication assisted recovery services can be provided safely, effectively, and equitably on a large scale.
Across a continuum of care, we work with patients and communities to holistically address substance use and mental health needs.