Family Support Practitioner (NV)

What You Will Be Doing

Our team of Family Support Practitioners provide support (via various combinations of TBRI® Caregiver training series, in-home coaching, connection groups, consultation, respite, specialized trainings, and resource coordination) to professionals and families (e.g., reunified biological families, foster families, kinship families, and adoptive families), to help them better understand behaviors and what to do about them, how trauma impacts the brain, body, development and wellbeing, and equipping participants with tools to use in the moment to address behaviors and create healing. The goal for this support is to increase stability and permanency for families.

Who We Are

At Raise the Future, we believe every young person deserves to go 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 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 evidence-based caregiving model rooted in attachment theory and developmental neuroscience and provides trauma-informed intervention tools 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 reunification, guardianship or adoption. You must be an advocate for youth, families, and the professionals that serve them and have an ability to engage with people in all walks of life. This position is best suited for someone who is tenacious, hardworking, enjoys facilitating training, 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

What You Will Be Able To Accomplish

As a Family Support Practitioner, you'll be building connections with youth, their families, and the professionals that serve them to provide support that allows them to make big changes--moving families from surviving to thriving and raising the future for youth. When this happens, our Training and 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 involved 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 across Colorado, Nevada or Utah, 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 in social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field.
• 1-3 years' experience working with child welfare, mental health, permanency services.
• Demonstrated understanding of complex developmental trauma, trauma-associated behavioral and developmental delays, and challenges related to permanency achieved through guardianship or adoption.
• General computer literacy required.
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).
• Database & Reporting Systems.
• Internet Research.
• Up to 50% travel, mostly driving within the state, is required. Successful candidates have dependable transportation and must be insurable as a driver. A full list of driver qualifications can be found here: Driver Qualifications.
• Ability and willingness to travel with flexibility to work evenings and occasional weekends.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and manage multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate strong working relationships with diverse populations, including public agency staff.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively build rapport with families, children and the professionals that serve them.
• Excellent observational and assessment skills.
• Demonstrate effective organization skills and proactive thinking.
• Demonstrate diplomacy and networking skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• TBRI® Practitioner accreditation
• 5 or more years post-graduate experience working with children and families.
• Master's Degree in Social Work
• Prior experience facilitating virtual or classroom training in small and/or large groups.
• Bilingual

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/2281945-573943

https://www.applicantpro.com/j/2281945-573943