Duties
Provides policy guidance and other functional support to ensure quality execution of counseling services on installations Marine Corps wide that address a range of behavioral health issues to include but not limited to anxiety, depression, stress, violence, coping, and other factors that detract from an individual¿s behavioral health. Community counseling services include individual, marital, group, and family modalities for issues responsive to brief solution-focused therapy and case management activities.
Conducts reviews and analyses of installation clinical services and provides recommendations concerning community counseling processes. Ensures that screening, treatment, and/or referral processes are aligned with best practices, implemented efficiently and effectively to return Marines and their families to optimal functioning. Provides oversight of comprehensive case management of services as supported by Marine and Family Programs Division to active duty and retired military members, the Reserve components of the military services, their families, and DOD civilians as space permits.
Ensures that program prevention efforts and functions are carried out in accordance with governing laws, policies, regulations, and professional standards of service. Serves as the subject matter expert on issues related to prevention. Ensures a comprehensive array of prevention services are available and delivered to Marines and their families at Marine Corps installations. Ensures that evidence-based curriculum is identified, utilized and evaluated at all installations.
As a community counseling specialist, the incumbent adapts existing guidelines and develops new methods when necessary. Through professional leadership, guidance, and authoritative consultant services on behavioral health treatment areas, the incumbent provides a framework of guidelines used by behavioral health clinical staff and others directly involved with the program. Assists in developing program objectives, new evaluation tools, monitoring procedures, and program review criteria. Exercises analytical ability, judgment, discretion, and applies a thorough knowledge of management principles, practices, methods and techniques to analyze accuracy of planning processes and procedures to recommend improvements.
Assist in the writing and maintenance of all community counseling requirements in the applicable Marine Corps Order. Develops partnerships with DOD and other federal agencies affecting behavioral health treatment programs, which addresses combat and operational stress issues, anxiety, depression, and other common behavioral health concerns while maintaining awareness of activities and initiatives in Family Advocacy, Sexual Assault and Prevention and Response, and Substance Abuse Programs.
Provides technical assistance to Major Command staff members and other stakeholders to improve and sustain counseling capabilities. Ensures that general counseling support capabilities are timely, relevant to commanders' needs, flexible, sustainable in execution, and thoroughly coordinated within the Marine Corps and external departments and agencies.
Summarizes and identifies significant program trends and issues and ensures sufficient funding resources are available to achieve program objectives. Forecasts and estimates program requirements and prepare reports with statistical and narrative data for top-level management.
Reviews and interprets new and established DoD and DON directives, instructions, and regulations for potential policy or operational impact on the Marine Corps prevention and family support programs. Develops and prepares Marine Corps instructions, operating policies, inspection procedures, and guidelines, and recommends changes and adjustments to assure accomplishments of prevention and family support program goals and objectives in conjunction with the MF mission and strategic plan and vision.
Serves as liaison between OSD, other services, and HQMC management officials as requested. Conducts special projects related to treatment and family support such as program study assignments that involve organizations, operations, and functions integrated with education, training, substance abuse prevention, suicide prevention, family violence prevention, and personal financial management throughout the Marine Corps for complex multi-mission installations.
Represents the Marine Corps, as required, at different forums concerning Behavioral Health. Maintains contacts with officials in appropriate Marine Corps commands, as well as other Services, DOD and congressional staff to monitor current policies, determine Marine Corps compliance with current programs, and to identify trends that affect Marine Corps programs. Collects data from diverse sources and uses them to produce meaningful management analysis. Develops military correspondence, point paper briefs and other items for HQMC Flag Officers.