Family THRIVE Coach - Middle/South Central TN (Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall and Perry Counties)

Tennessee Voices Inc.

is Tennessees collaborative leader in mental health and family well-being.

Each year, we serve thousands of children, parents, and adults across all 95 counties with services that prevent crisis, heal trauma, and build long-term stability.

Our model works because its whole-family, trauma-informed, and community-driven.

By healing parents alongside their children, providing critical resources like housing and mental health support, and advocating for systemic change, TN Voices helps families thrive and communities grow stronger.

Summary: The Family THRIVE Coach provides peer-based, strengths-focused coaching, care coordination, and resource navigation to children, adults, and families participating in Rural THRIVE Tennessee.

The Coach utilizes lived experience, relationship-building, and knowledge of community resources to help rural families overcome barriers to healthcare, behavioral health services, preventive care, economic stability, workforce opportunities, and other resources that support family health and well-being.

Family THRIVE Coaches work alongside individuals and families to identify strengths and needs, develop individualized Health and Stability Plans, coordinate resources, facilitate warm handoffs, and follow referrals through completion.

Services are organized around the five Rural THRIVE pathways: Stabilize, Prepare, Connect, Thrive, and Sustain.

The position requires regular travel throughout an assigned rural service area and delivery of services in community-based, in-person, telephone, and virtual settings.

The Rural THRIVE model specifically calls for flexible community-based support to reduce geographic and access barriers experienced by rural families.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Family Engagement and Peer Support Engage children, adults, and families using a family-driven, person-centered, strengths-based approach.

Use lived experience appropriately to build trust, reduce stigma, encourage engagement, and help families navigate complex systems.

Establish supportive relationships while maintaining appropriate professional and peer-role boundaries.

Help families identify their strengths, priorities, goals, and barriers to health and stability.

Promote family choice, self-advocacy, independence, resilience, and natural supports.

Maintain consistent contact with participants based on individual needs and program expectations.

Assessment and Individualized Planning Complete required Whole Family Assessments with individuals and families.

Collaboratively develop individualized Health and Stability Plans based on identified strengths, priorities, barriers, and goals.

Identify social drivers of health that may affect a participant's ability to access or remain connected to needed services.

Regularly review progress and modify goals and action steps as participant circumstances change.

Support participants across the Rural THRIVE pathways of Stabilize, Prepare, Connect, Thrive, and Sustain.

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