Family Finding Recruitment Specialist

Role Overview The Family Finding Specialist/Recruitment Specialist position will identify and engage familial supports and connections including relatives and fictive kin for the purpose of life‑long connections and permanency achievements. This position will work collaboratively with the licensing and casework teams, licensing target families to then transfer case to licensing team (will not carry licensing case load) it will also assist the family caseworker with facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care, including conducting extensive research, investigation, and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians. Responsibilities Provide professional technical assistance and resource development support to casework staff who serve children with specialized and problematic behavior service needs, and assist the family caseworker with facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care. Utilize a family‑centered, trauma‑informed, strength‑based, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) lens through which youth and family needs are assessed. Engage youth (age‑appropriate), birth parents, family and social connections, foster parents, and staff to facilitate and support stability and permanency for the youth. Possess strong, creative problem‑solving skills and use non‑traditional search methods to identify and locate family members and supportive connections. Serve as a team member within the multidisciplinary team or Child and Family Team Meeting consisting of case manager, supervisor, foster parent, birth parents and youth to facilitate connections between newly found family/fictive kin members, supports, and other collateral resources to improve permanency outcomes. Assist in licensing potential foster parents, fictive kins, and help train biological parents of foster children, as assigned. Engage in a variety of techniques to meet and communicate with potential foster parents, including attending events, networking, social media, and other strategies. Support and license potential foster parent/s or fictive kin, taking the lead in proactive general and target foster family recruitment efforts for youth in the foster care system. Conduct targeted recruitment efforts by reaching out to potential families most likely to meet the needs for specific youth, including attending and participating in community events throughout the area. Coordinate services and attend meetings with other agencies, systems, and community providers to meet the needs of the clients. #J-18808-Ljbffr EmergencyMD