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About the Role
Case Planners will receive specific training in evidence-based and evidenced-informed interventions to support families and caregivers in reaching permanency goals within a reasonable timeframe. The role involves planning for families with the intent of achieving permanency for children through reunification, adoption, KinGap, or APPLA.
Responsibilities
- Conduct field visits to foster homes and birth parent's homes
- Coordinate and supervise family visits at the agency and/or in the community
- Facilitate weekly groups for birth parents and foster parents
- Ensure each case adheres to ACS' permanency timeline ASFA guidelines
- Maintain case compliance via data entry and record keeping
- Accompany families to necessary drug treatment, medical, school, housing, public assistance service appointments
- Attend internal trainings as scheduled
- Attend court hearings with prepared court reports and/or permanency reports, proficiently reporting and/or testifying to the Court the progress of each case and any noted barriers to accomplishing the goals of the service plan
- Participate in family team conferences, transition conferences and goal change conferences
- Present at weekly case conferences
- Complete other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Ability and motivation to facilitate birth parent and/or foster parent support groups, utilize family finding techniques and successfully manage cases to comply with permanency planning timelines
- An understanding and respect for community needs and cultures
- Organizational, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to accommodate a flexible work schedule, including evenings and weekends
- Ability to travel in and around the metropolitan New York City region
- Ability to maintain composure and function well under stress
Skills
- Spanish
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Russian
Location
- Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Bachelors
- Masters
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, criminal justice or counseling from an accredited college
- Master's degree in social work, psychology, criminal justice or counseling from an accredited college
Salary/Compensations
- Bachelors - $29.12/hr - $31.04/hr
- Bachelors (Bilingual)- $30.22/hr - $32.15/hr
- Masters - $30.22/hr - $33.24/hr
- Masters (Bilingual) - $31.59/hr - $34.34/hr
- Masters (Bilingual & License) - $34.43/hr - $37.09/hr
Benefits
- Four weeks' vacation
- Medical/dental/vision/life/disability insurance
- Pension plan
- 401(k), 7% employer contribution + 2% match
- Tax-deferred health care/dependent care/commuter plans
About the Company
- Forestdale (FD) is a NYC child welfare agency working to prevent child abuse/neglect through parenting, prevention, and foster care (FC) services, focusing on low-income and immigrant communities in Queens & Brooklyn.
- We help thousands of families work through acute & complex trauma, parents raise the next amazing generation of children, and youth successfully launch into adulthood.
- FD’s mission is “to ensure that children and families have the fundamental assets they need to thrive and live independently.”
Equal Opportunity
- Forestdale Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is proudly committed to becoming an anti-racist and multicultural organization that stands up for justice and equity.
- We welcome prospective employees from diverse backgrounds, for administrative support and direct service and leadership roles, who will join us on that journey, uphold our values and approach, and believe in our mission.
- Additionally, we aim to have a racially representative leadership and workforce that is reflective of the communities we work in partnership with.
- Forestdale Inc. is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, participants, volunteers, subcontractors, and vendors.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of our activities or operations.
- These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and termination of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services.