Job Description:\n\nPosition Title: Adaptive Skills Training Professional (Senior Direct Support / Behavior Case Manager)\nLocation: Fremont, CA\nEmployment Type: Full-Time\nPay Range: $30 - $40 / hourly (depending on qualifications and experience)\nWorking Schedule: Mondays - Fridays (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)\n\nAbout Us\nFriends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN) is a Bay Area non-profit organization founded in 1996 and focused on helping individuals with special needs and their families find love, hope, respect, and support through integrated community involvement. \n\nProgram Overview\nOur Adaptive Skills Training (AST) Program is seeking an energetic, patient, detail-oriented, and reliableAdaptive Skills Training Professional. The position is responsible for providing training and supervision to adults with developmental challenges.\n\nThe Adaptive Skills Training (AST) Program provides 1:1 individualized services to adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and intellectual disabilities. The program aims to enhance existing skills, remediate deficits, and promote independence, social participation, and self-determination.\n\nAdaptive Skills Training (AST) Program services enhance an individual’s existing skills. They also may remedy an individual’s skill deficits in communication, social function, or other related skill areas, including, but not limited to, the following categories: (a) safety skills; (b) skills needed to access the community; (c) hygiene and dressing skills; (d) skills needed to access technology; (e) skills needed to buy and prepare food; (f) competency training; (g) housekeeping skills; (h) toileting skills; (i) feeding skills (including addressing picky eating, food refusal, and sensory-based issues with food); (j) staff and personnel training; (k) communication; (l) challenging behavior; (m) sleep and sleep hygiene; (n) choice making; and (o) specialty counseling. \n\nAll AST staff comply with CDSS, DDS, HIPAA, Title 17, and Title 22 regulations, maintain documentation, and ensure dignity, safety, and client rights.\n\nJob Responsibilities and Essential Functions\nReports To: AST Director and AST Assistant DirectorRole Focus: Designs and implements adaptive skills training plans and provides supervision to Adaptive Skills Training Specialists and BMTs as appropriate. \n\nBehavioral Support\n\nDesign AST curriculum and adaptive skills programs\nConduct Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and develop intervention plans\nOversee implementation of BIPs, ABA, and behavior support across staff \nLead implementation of BIPs and ABA strategies\nMentor BMT staff in behavior support and crisis prevention\nParticipate in behavioral assessments and intervention planning\nImplement Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), positive behavioral support strategies, and individualized programming as developed under supervisor direction.\nApply Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) principles, CPI intervention techniques, de-escalation strategies, sensory integrations, and environmental modifications to support emotional regulation and reduce challenging behaviors.\nTeach, model, and reinforce functional communication, coping skills, and replacement behaviors.\nMonitor participant behaviors and respond appropriately to behavioral, emotional, or safety concerns in accordance with program protocols.\nMaintain participant dignity, privacy, personal rights, and confidentiality at all times.\nImmediately report suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, injuries, safety concerns, or participant rights violations in accordance with organizational policies and mandated reporting requirements.\n\nAdaptive Skills Training & Direct Care\n\nSupervise Specialists and BMTs in teaching adaptive skills as appropriate\nProvide direct care when needed and ensure skill generalization across settings\nApprove instructional materials and activity plans as appropriate\nAdapt curriculum and materials for individualized instruction\nMonitor skill acquisition for multiple clients and mentor BMTs in delivery\nProvide individualized support and adaptive skills training to promote participants independence, self-care, vocational readiness, emotional well-being, and community integration.\nSupport participants with activities of daily living (ADLs), including feeding, toileting, hygiene, grooming, dressing, mobility, and meal preparation using person-centered and least-restrictive approaches.\nPlan, prepare, adapt, and facilitate structured classes, vocational training, recreational activities, life skills instruction, and community-based activities tailored to participant needs and goals. \nEncourage participant active participation, engagement, social interaction, and positive peer relationships during program activities.\nSupport participants in accessing community resources, volunteer opportunities, recreational outings, and other community integration activities.\nSafely transport participan