Family Support Specialist

4 weeks ago


Bronx, New York, United States Children's Aid Full time

The Family Support Specialist will provide concrete support to parents as they engage with the agency to plan for their children in foster care. This role will also provide parent support and advocacy for Childrens Aid case planning units. The specialist may participate in Family Team Conferences, Case Planning Meetings, Interdisciplinary Treatment Team Meetings, Family Visits, and/or accompany parents to appointments. The specialist will be assigned to a case planning unit and report to the unit supervisor in one of four agencies foster care offices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Meet with parents at or near the time of Intake to Foster Care and act as a credible messenger of hope for parents planning for their children
  • Participate in case planning meetings or family team conferences and ITT meetings as a support to parents, providing insight, clarification, and emotional regulation to parents to make meetings more effective and planning more successful.
  • Meet with families during Family Time (Family Visiting) as a support to encourage visits and to help parents problem-solve obstacles to healthy effective time with their children.
  • Accompany parents to service providers such as drug treatment, housing, mental health programs, or court as a source of encouragement and support and helping parents overcome ambivalence about starting new programming
  • Experience as a parent whose children were in foster care, must be beyond services not less than 2 years.
  • Experience in parent advocate training through ACS, RISE, CWOP or another agency a plus.
  • Flexibility and ability to work with families in their communities.
  • Computer literate a plus.

Childrens Aid is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and is dedicated to maintaining a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination.



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