Foster Care Licensing Worker
The Center for Youth and Family Solutions (CYFS) is seeking compassionate, committed, and culturally competent individuals who align with our mission of helping children and families in need with dignity, compassion, and respect to resolve life challenges. CYFS is one of central Illinois' largest, nationally accredited social service agencies, serving over 20,000 individuals in 37 counties. We are committed to supporting children and families who have experienced life-changing trauma, abuse and neglect, and other significant life challenges by providing strengths-based, family-centered, and trauma-responsive programs, services, and interventions. Join our team and help develop solutions for those who need them most.
Benefits of working at CYFS:
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Accrual of 15 vacation days and 8 sick days, plus 5 personal/wellness days
- Flexible Work Schedule, with the ability to work remotely on occasion
- Competitive Compensation
- Educational Reimbursement
- Ability for advancement
- Supportive atmosphere with the ability to be yourself while learning and developing
- Employee Assistance Program to help with Work-Life Balance and other potential well-being challenges
- Choice of 4 medical plans including PPO and high deductible plans with HSA
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401k plan with employer match
- Employer Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Plan and Dependent Care Plan
About the Job
Responsibilities:
- Recruit new foster care homes by attending events, taking phone calls, talking with referrals, and/or presenting speeches to raise awareness of the benefits of being a foster care home and the need for foster parents
- Evaluate potential foster parents and coordinate licensing and compliance with DCFS Rule and Procedures 402 for eligible applicants
- Assist relative or fictive foster parents with DCFS licensure
- Complete home studies and provide foster parents with individual and group trainings
- Monitor and supervise foster care homes to ensure understanding of and compliance with strength based, family centered, trauma informed, culturally sensitive foster parenting
- Complete license investigations
- Assist in finding the most appropriate foster home for a youth in care
- Support foster parents through support groups and foster parent advisory boards to create foster parent networks and community awareness
- Arrange respite for foster parents as needed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited graduate institution in social work or a closely related human service field (Required)
- Prior child welfare experience (Preferred)
- Must possess interpersonal, communication, time management, multitasking, computer, and teamwork skills.
- Must pass a DCFS background check
- Must be at least 21 years of age, obtain an insured vehicle, clean driving record, and three years driving record with a valid driver's license
For information on The Center for Youth and Family Solutions, including more information on employee benefits and our company culture, visit our website at https://www.cyfsolutions.org/ or check out our video campaign here.
The Center for Youth and Family Solutions is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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