Job: Family Specialist : Case Manager - Foster Care/Adoption
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Jobing Description
A Place To Call Home is about Family. It is our mission to provide as natural a family environment as possible, to accommodate short/long-term or more permanent additions within our fostering and adopting families. We believe in natural family supports such as security, emotional/personal bonding, healthy family values, responsible parenting, fellowship and love. Our approach of nurturing wholesome qualities, behavioral coping skills and educative supports provides a more natural and positive developmental impact on children, youth and adults in care.
A Place to Call Home has an immediate opening for a Family Specialist. The ideal applicant has a Bachelor‚s Degree in a social services related field, experience in foster care/adoption case management, licensing foster homes and certifying adoption homes, developmental disabilities, behavior principles and working with children and families.
A Place to Call Home encourages applicants with in-depth knowledge of the DDD systems, DCYF systems and behavioral health systems (including DSM-IV diagnoses) to apply, pertaining to both children and adults. Bilingual (Spanish/English) a plus!
Candidate must have excellent writing, organizational, computer and time-management skills as well as reliable transportation, a flexible schedule and a passion for supporting foster/adoptive families, children, youth and adults, especially those with special needs.
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Important Notes
This is a salaried, non-exempt position. Only serious applicants seeking longevity and dedication to a good cause need apply. There is a significant learning curve and any applicant must be able to handle on-going training/learning in addition to carrying a caseload. All employees are asked to sign a Non-Compete Agreement upon employment.
