Resource Family/Foster Care Licensing
$44,803–$62,691 year
On-site · Augusta, Maine, United States
Job Summary
Resource Family/Foster Care Licensing - Community Care Worker in Augusta, ME: responsible for ensuring resource family home applicants meet required standards to be approved as licensed resource families providing foster, adoptive and/or permanency guardianship services. Explain the resource approval process to placement families and actively support them through the steps to become approved resources. Conduct home studies, foster home investigations, kinship assessments, assist in securing placements for youth entering care, and provide ongoing information and support to resource families. Recruit and train resource families and accommodate overtime as needed; frequent travel within the geographic area served by the district. Emphasis on prioritizing kinship placements and collaborating with teams to meet each child's needs.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Social Services or Behavioral Science OR a four year combination of education, training, and/or professional experience providing services to and working directly with children and/or families.
- Experience demonstrating proficiency in public contact work, information gathering, analysis, documentation, and collaboration.
- Knowledge of motivational interviewing and information gathering methods and techniques.
- Proven ability to gather and analyze information, reach valid conclusions, and make sound recommendations (provide specific examples).
- Ability to develop and conduct recruitment and training workshops and meetings.
- Strong oral and written communications skills.
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