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About the Role
Responsible for facilitating the matches of children with appropriate families by utilizing Child-Focused Recruitment Strategies.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the child welfare system, including adoptions.
- Establish personal relationships with referred children and assist them in honoring the past, present, and future through child readiness activities.
- Determine the child’s strengths, challenges, desires, and preparedness for adoption and child’s needs through the adoption and recruitment transition process, developing and updating written assessments quarterly.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with case managers, therapists, and other members of case management teams.
- Articulate Child Focused Recruitment and understand the difference between General Recruitment, Child Specific Recruitment, and Targeted Recruitment as demonstrated in the implementation of Recruitment Services.
- Conduct regular monthly contacts with the child’s case planner.
- Develop and implement a child-focused (custom) adoption recruitment plan for each child.
- Conduct diligent search of potential adoptive families, including people with past and current connections to the child.
- Meet with significant adults and maintain regular and ongoing contact (case planner, foster parent, attorney, CASA volunteer, teacher, therapist, relative, mentor, faith-based representative, extra activity leader, etc.).
- Conduct aggressive follow-up with identified connections, with the knowledge and approval of the child’s case planner.
- Provide adoption preparations for children and families and assist in transition planning.
- Demonstrate advocacy through recruitment efforts and respond to barriers as opportunities.
- Align actions, words, and behaviors with “unadoptable is unacceptable”.
- Actively recruit permanent resources for assigned children, including individuals connected to the child, biological relatives, professional contacts in the community, area churches, and any other resources that may lead to permanency for a child.
- Facilitate public relations efforts to recruit and match potential families and children.
- Incorporate child-friendly language that is developmentally and age-appropriate.
- Communicate the impact of trauma on youth and development.
- Conduct initial interviews with persons interested in adopting a waiting child.
- Follow all necessary program requirements in terms of case management, data collections, and reporting as outlined by Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Program.
- Coordinate with supervisor or other Family Foster Care staff on the completion of any other assigned tasks.
- Display sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socio-economic characteristics.
- Perform other duties related to department goals and projects as needed.
Requirements
- High School Diploma / GED required.
- Minimum of 2 – 4 years’ experience in human services field; preferably foster care or adoption.
- Some experience in public relations preferred.
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
- Ability to work in-person in New York City (NY) for at least 3 days or more per week.
- Ability to travel to other Rising Ground sites (if required).
Skills
- Child Welfare System Knowledge
- Adoption Recruitment
- Child Readiness Activities
- Assessment Development
- Case Management Collaboration
- Child Focused Recruitment
- General Recruitment
- Child Specific Recruitment
- Targeted Recruitment
- Diligent Search
- Public Relations
- Trauma-Informed Communication
- Interviewing
- Data Collection
- Reporting
- Cultural Sensitivity
Location
- Brooklyn, NY
- Bronx, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2-4 years experience in human services
Education Level
- Associate Degree preferred
- High School Diploma / GED required
Benefits
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Time
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Personal days
- Medical - 3 plan options
- Dental - 2 plan options
- Vision - 1 plan option
About the Company
- Founded as an orphanage in 1831, Rising Ground has been at the forefront of evolving community needs.
- Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity.
- Each year, Rising Ground is a positive force in the lives of more than 72,000 individuals annually through 101 programs across 138 sites, throughout New York City and Westchester.
- Rising Ground is headquartered in New York City.
- Strong belief and commitment to diversity is integral to building a strong staff that reflects the communities we serve.
Equal Opportunity
- Rising Ground wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.