Lutheran Social Services of IL
Family Service Case Manager
Lutheran Social Services of IL, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) is a leading not-for-profit organization providing healing, justice, and wholeness to people and communities. For over 150 years, LSSI has made a difference in the lives of children and families, and we're still a strong, viable presence in the State of Illinois, continuing that commitment to making a difference.
LSSI is hiring a full-time
Family Findings Specialist , Monday through Friday. This role includes reaching out to potential families who are most likely to meet the needs for specific youth, attending and participating in community events throughout the area, conducting extensive research, investigation, and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians, and identifying potential extended family/fictive kinship relationships. The specialist will assist the family caseworker in facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care. The specialist serves 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 resolve complex and stalled cases to improve permanency outcomes.
Benefits and Perks:
On Demand Flexible Paydays for earned wages through an app called Dayforce Wallet.
Competitive salary based upon relevant education, experience, and licensure.
Salary $46,000-$51,000/Annually.
Opportunity for advancement.
Comprehensive benefits package for Full-Time employees includes healthcare insurance, up to 26 days of paid time off per calendar year, 11 paid holidays, sick time, 403(b) plan, Employee Assistance Program, and flexible hours.
The paid training you need to learn, grow, and succeed!
The opportunity to become a part of a fantastic team of Child Welfare professionals!
Essential Functions:
Understand implicit bias and how to work within a system that impacts decisions for youth and their families when locating placement options.
Provide professional technical assistance and resource development support to casework staff who serve children with specialized and problematic behavior service needs.
Drive to various locations to attend meetings, conferences, or to locate and assess family homes as needed.
Utilize a family-centered, trauma-informed, strength-based, and EDI lens through which youth and family needs are assessed.
Engage youth (as 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 can use non-traditional search methods to identify and locate family members and supportive connections.
Have strong data analysis skills needed to conduct diligent search activities across multiple databases, systems, social media, and other websites.
Use ecomaps, genograms, and other tools to map and locate prospective supports and placement resources for the youth and family.
Identify and engage familial supports and connections including relatives and fictive kin for the purpose of life-long connections and permanency achievement.
Assist in training potential foster parents and biological parents/relatives 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 potential foster parents to provide information and encourage engagement through the licensing process.
Take the lead in engaging in both proactive general and target foster family recruitment efforts for youth in the foster care system.
Coordinate services and attend meetings with other agencies, systems, and community providers to meet the needs of the clients.
Perform other related tasks as needed.
Position Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in social work, other human services field, or criminal justice is required; communication experience in investigation and person location preferred.
Strong communication skills, research skills, and experience working with children with special needs are a plus.
Possess strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
Must have the ability to pass a background check.
CWEL preferred, but not required.
Full access to SACWIS in order to file mine (review investigative reports, previous assessments, case notes, placement history, collateral contacts, etc.) in the initiation of Family Finding activities.
Internet accessibility to search tools and engines.
Access to and knowledge of completing background checks.
Excellent communication, organization, presentation, and PC/computer skills (including proficiency with Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) along with other related software.
Position requires valid IL statutory minimum liability auto insurance coverage (including bodily injury and property damage).
Valid Illinois driver's license and proof of automobile liability insurance required. Access to transportation for visits and to transport clients to and from appointments.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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LSSI is hiring a full-time
Family Findings Specialist , Monday through Friday. This role includes reaching out to potential families who are most likely to meet the needs for specific youth, attending and participating in community events throughout the area, conducting extensive research, investigation, and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians, and identifying potential extended family/fictive kinship relationships. The specialist will assist the family caseworker in facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care. The specialist serves 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 resolve complex and stalled cases to improve permanency outcomes.
Benefits and Perks:
On Demand Flexible Paydays for earned wages through an app called Dayforce Wallet.
Competitive salary based upon relevant education, experience, and licensure.
Salary $46,000-$51,000/Annually.
Opportunity for advancement.
Comprehensive benefits package for Full-Time employees includes healthcare insurance, up to 26 days of paid time off per calendar year, 11 paid holidays, sick time, 403(b) plan, Employee Assistance Program, and flexible hours.
The paid training you need to learn, grow, and succeed!
The opportunity to become a part of a fantastic team of Child Welfare professionals!
Essential Functions:
Understand implicit bias and how to work within a system that impacts decisions for youth and their families when locating placement options.
Provide professional technical assistance and resource development support to casework staff who serve children with specialized and problematic behavior service needs.
Drive to various locations to attend meetings, conferences, or to locate and assess family homes as needed.
Utilize a family-centered, trauma-informed, strength-based, and EDI lens through which youth and family needs are assessed.
Engage youth (as 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 can use non-traditional search methods to identify and locate family members and supportive connections.
Have strong data analysis skills needed to conduct diligent search activities across multiple databases, systems, social media, and other websites.
Use ecomaps, genograms, and other tools to map and locate prospective supports and placement resources for the youth and family.
Identify and engage familial supports and connections including relatives and fictive kin for the purpose of life-long connections and permanency achievement.
Assist in training potential foster parents and biological parents/relatives 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 potential foster parents to provide information and encourage engagement through the licensing process.
Take the lead in engaging in both proactive general and target foster family recruitment efforts for youth in the foster care system.
Coordinate services and attend meetings with other agencies, systems, and community providers to meet the needs of the clients.
Perform other related tasks as needed.
Position Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in social work, other human services field, or criminal justice is required; communication experience in investigation and person location preferred.
Strong communication skills, research skills, and experience working with children with special needs are a plus.
Possess strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
Must have the ability to pass a background check.
CWEL preferred, but not required.
Full access to SACWIS in order to file mine (review investigative reports, previous assessments, case notes, placement history, collateral contacts, etc.) in the initiation of Family Finding activities.
Internet accessibility to search tools and engines.
Access to and knowledge of completing background checks.
Excellent communication, organization, presentation, and PC/computer skills (including proficiency with Microsoft Office - Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) along with other related software.
Position requires valid IL statutory minimum liability auto insurance coverage (including bodily injury and property damage).
Valid Illinois driver's license and proof of automobile liability insurance required. Access to transportation for visits and to transport clients to and from appointments.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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