Family Support Practitioner

What You Will Be Doing

The Family Support Professional provides wrap around services to reunified biological families, kinship families, foster, and adoptive families through our Family Navigation and Post-Permanency Services and Support (PPSS) programs.

The Family Support Services Professional also utilizes Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) principles to provide family navigation services, through intensive therapeutic case management and coaching with a focus to prevent youth from re-entering the child welfare system.

Who We Are

At Raise the Future, we believe every young person goes through life knowing they have a caring adult by their side. So, every day, we show up for kids in foster care by listening to their needs and introducing them to adults they can rely on. We then surround those connections with support so that they grow into meaningful, lasting relationships that help our youth heal from the past. Because to truly raise the future, we must raise the bar for what it means to support vulnerable youth and families as they navigate life.

Since our founding in 1983, Raise the Future has designed and implemented evidence-based wraparound services that reduce the amount of time youth in foster care live without a permanent family. Our programs increase the likelihood of forming and sustaining positive connections that help to transform their futures.

What You Will Get To Learn

As a Family Support Practitioner, you will learn and apply valuable tools and techniques of the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®), which is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. You will also become credentialed as a TBRI® Practitioner.

Who We Are Seeking

The successful candidate is someone who understands complex developmental trauma, trauma-associated behavioral and developmental delays, and challenges related to permanency achieved through guardianship or adoption. You must be an advocate for yourself, youth, and families and have an ability to engage with families in all walks of life. This position is best suited for someone who is tenacious, hardworking, and loves helping others.

Qualifications include a bachelor's degree preferably in social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field, and at least 1-3 years of experience working with child welfare, mental health, or permanency services.

See Qualifications below for additional details.

What We Offer

As a nonprofit organization, we are mission driven, and our employees are highly engaged in the work they do. The best reward is when our efforts payoff and youth leave the child welfare system and find lasting connections with families.

We offer a great culture and a full benefits package too. We value the need for work life balance offering four (4) weeks of PTO, one (1) week of paid personal time, 10+ paid holidays per year, plus much more--that's 35+ paid days off per year! Our benefits also include:

• Health Insurance
• Dental & vision insurance
• 100% Paid life, long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and childcare
• Health Savings Accounts
• 401k with matching contributions & immediate vesting
• Flexible work arrangements available on case-by-case basis
• Employee Assistance Program
• Discount programs
• Paid Parental Leave

The hiring range for this position is $50,000 - $55,000 annually*.

* Actual hiring range may vary based on qualifications and geographic location.

What You Will Be Able To Accomplish

As a Family Support Practitioner, you'll be building connections with youth and their families, and provide support that allow them to make big changes--moving families from surviving to thriving and raising the future for youth. When this happens, our Family Support Practitioners feel like superheroes!

You Get to Work With

You will join our diverse team of Family Support Practitioners who are like-minded in their passion for raising the future for families with youth that have been in the child welfare system -- working closely with reunified biological families, kinship families, and adoptive families as well as multidisciplinary professionals that serve them.

This position will be working with stakeholders in the designated service area, and ideally the person in this role will reside within the service area. Applicants residing outside the service area are welcome to apply. Relocation assistance is not available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field.
• 2 years' experience working within adoption, child welfare or related area.
• Demonstrated understanding of complex developmental trauma, trauma-associated behavioral and developmental delays, and challenges related to permanency achieved through reunification, guardianship or adoption.
• Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed.
• Up to 50% travel required.
• Must have dependable car and be insurable as a driver on the auto liability policy of Raise the Future.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field.
• 5 or more years post-graduate experience working with children and families.
• Experience caring for or working with children and families who have experienced trauma.
• Accredited through TCU Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development as a TBRI® Practitioner.
• Located in or near one of the regions where services are to be delivered.
• Bilingual in Spanish

Serious candidates should submit a cover letter.

Raise the Future is more than an equal opportunity organization. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We are taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and people who are differently abled. We know there are great candidates who won't fit everything we've described above, or who have important skills we haven't considered. If that's you, please don't hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.

https://www.applicantpro.com/j/2358177-573943

https://www.applicantpro.com/j/2358177-573943