Foster Care

4 weeks ago

Norwalk, United States Family and Children s Agency Inc Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Family & Children’s Agency (FCA) is a nonprofit human service organization that is committed to increasing the social and emotional well-being of our clients – people throughout Fairfield County. Our Agency builds better lives by offering more than 30 programs that meet needs across all ages, delivering services to more than 13,000 people each year. Our clients reside primarily in Norwalk, Wilton, Darien, Westport, Weston, New Canaan, Stamford, and Greenwich. Our Home Care and Foster Care programs provide assistance to residents throughout Fairfield County, and the Adoption program is both nationwide and international.


Our Mission is to partner with individuals, families, organizations and communities to build better lives.

FCA is proud to currently offer a hybrid working model to our employees. Employees enjoy a wide array of benefits that make up our competitive compensation package. We are proud to offer generous employer contributions to our medical plans, continued education credits offered at no cost, annual tuition reimbursement stipend, employer paid Life & LTD policies, FSA and Dependent Care, 401K with a match and safe harbor contribution and a generous vacation and time off policy to include Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth We also offer employee discounts to multiple organizations, events and your cell phone plan. Our benefits don't stop there - we offer an EAP program, summer Fridays, employee appreciation events along with wellness incentives and challenges


We are searching for an FFT (Functional Family Therapy) Family Specialist to join our team:


The FFT Family Specialist provides case management support and services, individualized to meet the broad needs of children and foster parents. The FFT Family Specialist actively works on a dyad with the Family Therapist, and in collaboration with DCF to coordinate treatment services to maintain stability in the foster home and achieve permanency.


The FFT Family Specialist will be responsible for the below responsibilities:


  • Active member of the FFT FC team led by FFT FC Therapist providing home-based services
  • Conduct on going both model-specific and Foster Care adherent risk assessments and interventions for every family including tailored safety planning, crisis management, and model adherent interventions that target decreasing risk and increasing protective factors;
  • Maintain accountability to adherence to evidence-based model
  • Demonstrate flexible, relentless and a strength-based relational approach when working with youth and families
  • Address clinical needs of clients through model adherent FFT FC interventions
  • Conduct initial assessments including review of referral information, identifying and engaging key participants, targeting risks and protective factors, and developing analysis of hierarchy and relational assessment within the family
  • Complete Care4 documentation as required, and complete other electronic health record documentation including but not limited to Crisis Management Plan, LIST assessment, and home walkthroughs in an accurate and timely manner
  • Provide supervised visitation to birth families while demonstrating appreciation of cultural diversity, heritage and knowledge of cultural issues and patterns
  • Continually assess for levels of engagement of all key participants and collaborate with supervisor and stakeholders to overcome barriers to engagement
  • Keep stakeholders informed of elevated risks and attend clients’ family court appearances and Administrative Care Reviews
  • Identify and refer children and families (both birth and foster) to community-based resources
  • Video tapes as required for FFT consultation and certification;
  • Participate in all model and agency training, peer and individual supervision, and staff meetings
  • Independently organize and maintain weekly schedule and keep supervisor aware of schedule
  • Network with DCF and community agencies
  • Participate in on-call coverage on a rotating basis among program staff


Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Sociology or Psychology required along with 2 years' experience in their field of study.
  • FFT FC Family Specialists should have experience in providing case management services, coordinating systems of care, working within complex family systems and have experience providing in-home services
  • Preference shall be given to candidates that have the following knowledge base:
    • Home Based therapy
    • Family Systems Theory
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
    • Trauma reactions and its impact on brain development
    • Managing emotional dysregulation due to complex trauma
    • Knowledge of racial disparities within behavioral health services
    • Child development research and its application in treatment


If you are interested in learning more about how you can join our talented group of diverse employees, please visit our website to view this job posting and apply. We look forward to sharing with you why we were named one of the top medium sized workplaces in Southern Connecticut for 6 years in a row. To learn more, visit our website and check out our opportunities
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