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Facilitate the matching of children with appropriate families using child-focused recruitment strategies and personalized adoption plans. Maintain collaborative relationships with case managers and therapists while conducting diligent searches for potential adoptive families.
Requires a High School Diploma or GED, with an Associate Degree preferred. Candidates need 2 to 4 years of experience in human services, preferably in foster care or adoption.
About Rising Ground
Founded as an orphanage in 1831, Rising Ground has been at the forefront of evolving community needs. Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity, and each year, Rising Ground is a positive force in the lives of more than 72,000 individuals annually. We do this through 101 programs across 138 sites, throughout New York City and Westchester. Our strong belief and commitment to diversity is shown not just through our work with supported persons but is integral to the building of a strong staff that reflects the communities we serve. Rising Ground is headquartered in New York City.
About the Role:
Responsible for facilitating the matches of children with appropriate families by utilizing Child-Focused Recruitment Strategies.
What You’ll Do
· Demonstrate a working knowledge of child welfare system including adoptions
· Establish personal relationships with referred children and assist them in honoring the past, present and future through child readiness activities
· Determines the child’s strengths, challenges, desires, and preparedness for adoption and child’s needs through the adoption and recruitment transition process. A written assessment should be developed initially and updated on a quarterly basis
· Maintain collaborative relationships with case managers, therapists and other members of case management teams
· Articulate Child Focused Recruitment and understand the difference between General Recruitment, Child Specific Recruitment, and Targeted Recruitment as demonstrated in the implementation of Recruitment Services
· Conducts regular monthly contacts with Child’s case planner
· Develop and implement a child-focused (custom) adoption recruitment plan for each child
· Conducts diligent search of potential adoptive families including people with past and current connections to the child
· Meets with significant adults and maintain regular and ongoing contact (case planner, foster parent, attorney, CASA volunteer, teacher, therapist, relative, mentor, faith-based representative, extra activity leader, etc.)
· Conducts aggressive follow-up with connections identified, with the knowledge and approval of child’s case planner
· Provides adoption preparations for children and families, assists in transition planning
· Demonstrate advocacy through recruitment efforts; responds to barriers as opportunities
· Align actions, words and behaviors with “unadoptable is unacceptable”
· Actively recruit permanent resources for assigned children including individuals connected to the child, biological relatives, professional contacts in the community, area churches, and any other resources that may lead to permanency for a child
· Facilitate public relations efforts to recruit and match potential families and children
· Incorporate child friendly language that is developmentally and age appropriate
· Communicate the impact of trauma on youth and development
· Conduct initial interviews with person interested in adopting a waiting child
· Follow all necessary program requirements in terms of case management, data collections, and reporting as outlined by Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Program
· Coordinate with supervisor or other Family Foster Care staff on the completion of any other assigned tasks
· Display sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socio-economic characteristics\
· Perform other duties related to department goals and projects as needed
Your Qualifications
· Associate Degree preferred
· High School Diploma / GED required
· Minimum of 2 – 4 years’ experience in human services field; preferably foster care or adoption. Some experience in public relations preferre
11 Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Time
Paid Vacation
Paid Personal days
Supervisory Responsibility
No
Work Environment:
Clinic/Field/Corporate Office
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday in Brooklyn or Bronx. Work hours options are 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, 10 am - 6 pm.
Additional Requirements:
Application & Interview Process
While the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s
perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or
veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.
Providing New York children, adults & families with the skills, resources, hope & opportunity to rise above adversity.
Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity. With an annual budget of $203 million and 101 programs at 138 sites throughout the New York City and lower Westchester area, we deliver dedicated support to promote safe environments for children and help families thrive through our family stabilization, family foster care and adoption programs; innovative special educational programs that advance learning from early childhood through high school; result-focused programs that help court-involved youth change the trajectory of their lives; caring services that promote independence for children and adults with developmental disabilities; and pro-active community health initiatives that foster well-being. Across programs, we continually engage new, innovative techniques and implement evidence-based models to increase our impact and promote better outcomes.
Offices: 1333 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10018-1064, US · 151 Lawrence St, Brooklyn, New York 11201, US
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