Care Advocate - Full Time

Resource Family Advocate KS
Kansas City KS Office - KANSAS CITY, KS 66102
Salary Range $42,000.00 - $45,000.00 Salary/year Position Type Full Time
We are seeking a Resource Family Advocate KS to join our team.
We are seeking a Resource Family Advocate KS to join our team. Facilitate pre-service and in-service training for kinship and foster families. As a member of the KS Foster Care team, you will work with 6 other team members and report to our Manager of Child Placing Agency.
Provide support and assistance to the Placement Finding Team in identifying placements for children based upon current and accurate knowledge of assigned families.
Support additional Resource Development functions through community recruitment events, screening potential resource families, leading information meetings, etc.
Our ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in child welfare arena and the following:

Bachelor's degree in social work or other human services related field.
Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives. Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas:

Youth & Family Support – We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.
Foster Care & Adoption – We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.
Education & Community Trainings – We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students' behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.
Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose.
Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills.
Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.
Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management.
Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships.
Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.
At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity, feels deeply welcomed, valued, and empowered. We envision a diverse community where inclusion and welcoming are prioritized. A community where all voices are heard, listened to, and respected. A community where everyone's physical, emotional, social, and psychological needs are met. At Cornerstones of Care, we have a vision where equity is not just a goal but is present in all we do; We hold a collective commitment to WIDE (welcoming, inclusion, diversity, and equity) that will drive us forward as a stronger organization.
Our Diversity Statement

We partner for safe and healthy communities.
We cultivate a culture in which children, families, team members, volunteers, donors, and community partners feel welcomed, safe, respected, empowered, and celebrated.
We value diversity of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, geographical location, pregnancy, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic, and military status.
We stand for anti-racism, equity, and inclusivity.
We insist and affirm that discrimination and violence have no place in safe and healthy communities, including in our organization.
We strive toward a more welcoming, inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization through our policies, partnerships, and practices.
9 Paid Holidays, Unlimited Paid Time Off, and Paid Sick Leave

• Health insurance benefits (medical, prescription, dental, vision)
• Cafeteria plans (Health Savings Account (HSA) and Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts)
• Ancillary insurance benefits (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, short-term disability insurance, voluntary life)
• Cornerstones of Care provides long-term disability insurance and basic term life/AD&D insurance at no cost to the team member

Retirement savings plan (401K) with employer match
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Tuition reimbursement program