About this role
Overview
At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.
Responsibilities
The Family Resource Case Worker (FRCW) plays a critical role within the MST (Multisystemic Therapy) team by providing case management support to families. The FRCW engages with and assesses needs of families while collaborating with community-based programs (ex: schools, medical offices, etc) to ensure comprehensive support for families.
Ensure Successful Family Intake: Conduct intake thorough the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment.
Enhance Family Engagment: Provide clear explanations of MST therapy and its benefits to families, achieving high levels of family engagement and participation. Partner with Therapist to develop and implement specific interventions to overcome barriers family face with session pacing and work collaboratively towards treatment goals.
Maximize Resource Access for Families by becoming an expert on community resources and assist families in accessing these resources, including prosocial activities, public benefits, housing, legal, education, and medical services, leading to improved family stability. Collaborate with community resources to support family needs.
Maintain Accurate Case Records: Efficiently create, manage, and process cases in Evolv, Promis, Connections, and Ebase, in a timely manner ensuring all contacts with families and collaterals are throughly documented, up-to-date and accurate.
Requests and obtain school, medical, dental or other applicable health records on an ongoing basis for all children under the age of 18 or relevent family members to ensure family's needs are being met and that there are up to date records on file to be in compliance with stakeholder regulations.
The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, or a related field.
- Experience in case management or social services, particularly with families and children OR Strong knowledge of community resources and ability to effectively collaborate with schools, medical providers, and other community programs.
- A passion for serving children and families. Relevant experience in child welfare, social services, or a related field is preferred.
- Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records.
- Ability to conduct home visits and perform safety assessments.
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team as well as a diverse client population.
- Ability to receive feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes.
Education Required
Bachelor’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institutionRecruitment Tagline
Hiring Impact, Changing Lives TogetherSalary Range:
$53,970.64 (+ 3,500 Bilingual additive + 3,800 Education additive)Other facts
About The New York Foundling
At The New York Foundling, we believe that all people—no matter circumstance or zip code—have the opportunity to reach their full potential. But for all of us, discovering what we are capable of and reaching our full potential requires support along the way.
We believe and trust in the potential of all people. We work in partnership with more than 30,000 children, adults, and families each year on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.
We believe in the power of personal choice and self-determination. The New York Foundling has deliberately challenged the notion that individuals are limited by their circumstances or are incapable of making the right choice for their future. Rather, our network of programs, services, and opportunities are carefully designed for children, families, and adults to create transformational change in their own lives.
We believe and invest in proven practices. With nearly 150 years of experience creating resources, tools, and social capital, we have learned from our community what works. At the same time, we’re not afraid to invest in bold new approaches that comprehensively address challenges and provide the foundation for people to drive their own future.
What you'll do
- The Family Resource Case Worker provides case management support to families, engaging with them to assess needs and collaborating with community programs. They ensure successful family intake, enhance family engagement, maximize resource access, and maintain accurate case records.
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