Family Engagement Coordinator - Broome

Serving with Compassion, Creativity, and Consistency.

$22-24 an hour

Position Summary: The Family Engagement Coordinator is a critical member of the residential and community residential program. The Family Engagement Coordinator's focus is on family voice and choice. The Family Engagement Coordinator is responsible for developing the after-care plan starting with the youth's placement on the dorm and focusing on permanency.

Responsibilities:

• Meet families in their homes and community
• Schedule home visits with families, write visitation plans, schedule or provide transportation
• Focus on Permanency activities
• Ensure family voice and choice is evident in ICSP development, treatment plans goals, meetings,
• Trained in Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment (CANS) and gather information for Social Worker
• Gather information from family for 30 psychosocial
• Attend psychiatrist meeting if Social Worker is not available
• Provide casework services related to discharge planning and the youth's re-entry into the family and community
• Develops transition plans with and for the youth, including education/vocational/life skills. Coordinate with the Aftercare program.
• Support the Social Worker in identifying permanency barriers, kinship resources, and visiting/mentoring opportunities early in placement
• Train family/discharge resource in skills needed to sustain gains made in care
• Plan, invite, and transport family for events and meetings
• Attending staff meetings to help with dorm communication
• Ensure all client-related activities, including TTHs, collateral contacts, case contacts, phone calls, emails, and other required interactions, are accurately documented in EVOLVE within 3 business days of occurrence

• Associate's degree required
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement

• 2 years of related experience required
• Driver's License and ability to maintain insurability throughout employment required