Founded in 1970 by a behavioral health hospital and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1983, The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth is an entrepreneurial social enterprise committed to transforming lives and communities.

Headquartered in Audubon, TLC operates across multiple states, providing K-12 alternative education, comprehensive mental and behavioral health services, coaching, counseling, and trauma-informed training.

The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth collaborates with school districts, universities, hospitals, police departments, and nonprofit organizations, offering consultation services to secure federal and state grant funding.

Here are a few of the staff positions currently available at The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth:

Digital Marketing Manager

The Digital Marketing Manager will be a strategic leader responsible for developing and executing digital marketing campaigns that enhance TLC’s online presence, engage the various communities it serves, and drive program awareness, participation, and growth.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in digital strategy, content creation, campaign management, and the implementation of systems and tools to optimize marketing efforts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Digital Strategy Development: Develop and implement comprehensive digital marketing strategies aligned with TLC’s mission and goals, focusing on brand awareness, community engagement, and the promotion and growth of various programs. Create and execute multi-channel campaigns tailored for both B2B and B2C audiences.
• Content Creation and Management: Collaborate to develop engaging content across all marketing channels, including websites, social media, podcasts, video, email, and ads.
• SEO and SEM: Conduct website audits and optimize content for search engines and paid campaigns to increase visibility, site traffic, and conversions.
• Analytics and Reporting: Develop and manage systems and workflows to support scalable growth across digital team functions. Monitor and analyze performance metrics to assess effectiveness, trends, and make data-driven decisions. Create and manage dashboards, providing regular reports to senior management.
• Collaboration: Work closely with leadership, internal teams, and external partners to execute cohesive and impactful marketing efforts across numerous business units.
• Brand Consistency: Ensure all digital communications are consistent with TLC’s brand voice, visual identity, and core values.
• Budget Management: Manage the digital marketing budget, including planning, forecasting, and tracking expenses. Monitor the effectiveness of campaigns in relation to ad spend using standard marketing performance metrics.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with digital marketing trends, tools, and technologies. Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and improve TLC’s digital marketing strategies and tactics.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong understanding of multi-channel digital marketing development, including SEO, SEM, social media, email, and content marketing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Proficiency in digital marketing tools and platforms (e.g., Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, etc.).
• Experience with CRM and EDM marketing systems.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Collaborative team player, comfortable in both leading and supporting roles.
• Experience with donor management software is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in digital marketing.

Find out more about the Full Time Digital Marketing Manager position.

Full-time Licensed School-Based Counselor/Social Worker

The School-based Counselor/ Social Worker provides early intervention therapy and counseling services in a Technical School.

They also provide case management and mental health support services at the school and in the homes of at-risk students.

The counselor/social worker will provide consultation services to school personnel, liaison support to community agencies, and training programs for school and community populations.

Services to students include:

• Identify students in need of trauma support and provide prevention, screening, referral and treatment services to students potentially in need of service.
• Provide trauma-informed therapy and counseling interventions (group, individual and/or family) for at-risk students.
• Provide mentoring and other intervention models to children and their families who have experienced trauma or are at risk of experiencing trauma, including those who are low-income, homeless, in foster care, involved in the criminal justice system, unemployed, experiencing a mental illness or substance abuse disorder or not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.
• Provide case management for students and families requiring multiple resources.
• Provide quality trauma support and behavioral health care services.
• Provide home-based services to the families of students who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing trauma, including those who are low-income, homeless, involved in the child welfare system or involved in the juvenile justice system.

Services to school personnel include:

• Assist teachers with behavior management strategies.
• Provide staff with essential information to better understand factors (cultural, societal, economic, familial, health, etc.) affecting a student’s performance and behavior.
• Train school staff on trauma-informed approaches to education to develop safe, stable and nurturing learning environments that prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma.

Services to districts include:

• Provide consultation regarding school law and school policy including IDEA and Section 504.
• Assist in developing positive behavioral intervention strategies.
• Assist in developing and implementing educational programs, including programs on safety and bullying.
• Develop alternative programs for drop-out, truancy, delinquency, etc.

Services to parent/families

• Work with parents to facilitate their support in their children’s school adjustment.
• Alleviate family stress to enable the child to function more effectively in school & community.
• Assist parents in accessing and utilizing school and community resources.
• Work with those problems in a child’s living situation that affect the child’s adjustment in school (home, school, and community).

School Community Liaison:

• Obtain and coordinate community resources to meet students’ needs.
• Provide health services and intervention strategies by coordinating the services provided by eligible applicants and coordinated care organizations, public health entities, nonprofit youth service providers and community-based organizations.
• Foster and promote communication between the school entity, community and law enforcement.
• Increase access to quality trauma-informed support services and behavioral health care by linking the community with local trauma support and behavioral health systems.
• Help school districts receive adequate support from social and mental health agencies.
• Advocate for new and improved community/school service to meet the needs of students and families.
• Mobilize family, school, and community resources to enable the child to learn as effectively as possible in his or her educational program.
• Help school districts receive adequate support from social and mental health agencies.

Skills and knowledge for this position include:

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work effectively on a multi-treatment team.
• Proficient in numerous clinical interventions.
• Knowledge of and ability to access community resources.
• Strong substance abuse intervention skills

Education and experience for this position include:

• Master’s degree required, preferably in counseling or social work.
• At least one of the following licenses is required: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Social Worker (LSW), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Find out more about the Full-time Licensed School-Based Counselor/Social Worker position.

Full-Time School-Based Counselor

The School-Based Counselor will provide early intervention therapy and counseling services, case management, and mental health support services at the school/schools.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Identify students in need of trauma support and provide prevention, screening, referral, and treatment services to students potentially in need of services.
• Provide trauma-informed therapy and counseling interventions (group, individual, and/or family) for at-risk students.
• Provide mentoring and other intervention models to children and their families who have experienced trauma or are at risk of experiencing trauma, including those who are low-income, homeless, in foster care, involved in the criminal justice system, unemployed, experiencing a mental illness or substance abuse disorder or not enrolled in or at risk of dropping out of an educational institution.
• Provide case management for students and families requiring multiple resources.
• Provide quality trauma support and behavioral health care services.
• Provide home-based services to the families of students who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing trauma, including those who are low-income, homeless, involved in the child welfare system, or involved in the juvenile justice system.
• Assist teachers with behavior management strategies.
• Provide staff with essential information to better understand factors (cultural, societal, economic, familial, health, etc.) affecting a student’s performance and behavior.
• Train school staff on trauma-informed approaches to education to develop safe, stable, and nurturing learning environments that prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma.
• Provide consultation regarding school law and school policy, including IDEA and Section 504.
• Assist in developing positive behavioral intervention strategies.
• Assist in developing and implementing educational programs, including programs on safety and bullying.
• Develop alternative programs for drop-out, truancy, delinquency, etc.
• Work with parents to facilitate their support in their children’s school adjustment.
• Alleviate family stress to enable the child to function more effectively in school & community.
• Assist parents in accessing and utilizing school and community resources.
• Work with those problems in a child’s living situation that affect the child’s adjustment in school (home, school, and community).
• Obtain and coordinate community resources to meet students’ needs.
• Provide health services and intervention strategies by coordinating the services provided by eligible applicants and coordinated care organizations, public health entities, nonprofit youth service providers, and community-based organizations.
• Foster and promote communication between the school entity, community, and law enforcement.
• Increase access to quality trauma-informed support services and behavioral health care by linking the community with local trauma support and behavioral health systems.
• Help school districts receive adequate support from social and mental health agencies.
• Advocate for new and improved community/school service to meet the needs of students and families.
• Mobilize family, school, and community resources to enable the child to learn as effectively as possible in his or her educational program.
• Help school districts receive adequate support from social and mental health agencies.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work effectively on a multi-treatment team.
• Proficient in numerous clinical interventions.
• Knowledge of and ability to access community resources.
• “Transforming lives and communities – one moment, one choice, one connection at a time”

Education & Experience:

• Master’s degree required, preferably in counseling or social work.

Find out more about the School-Based Counselor position.

See all the available job openings at The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth.