Road to Success Specialist

Description

**This is a field-based foster care case management role that will travel and provide coverage to clients throughout Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie Counties**

Are you searching for meaningful work that promotes independent living for teens aging out of the foster care system? Would you like to assist adults formerly in the foster care system transition to self-sufficiency? Then our Communities Connected for Kids program has an opportunity that will interest you! We are looking for a motivated, dedicated and compassionate individual to be a Road to Success Specialist!

Being a Road to Success Specialist has its Advantages

As a Road to Success Specialist with CCKids, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

• Opportunities to make a positive impact in the lives of individuals in the foster care system
• Growth opportunities with one of the leading Community-Based organizations in the state
• Excellent benefits including low-cost, high-coverage health insurance, generous time-off, competitive retirement, and non-profit servant student loan forgiveness, to name a few

Our Communities Connected for Kids Program provides services for children and families in the child welfare system, to ensure a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment. Based out of Port St. Lucie, FL and providing coverage throughout Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, and St. Lucie Counties, this position is responsible for providing and coordinating the provision of independent living transition services to enable individuals in foster care and young adults previously in foster care to transition to self-sufficiency.  Additional duties include:

• Provide and/or coordinate the provision of independent living transition services to enable older children in foster care and young adults who exit foster care at age 18 to make the transition to self-sufficiency.
• Provide and/or coordinate independent living services in person and virtually, such as life skills training, educational field trips, and conferences based on the assessed needs of each youth.
• Provide and/or coordinate life skills services in person and virtually such as, training to develop banking and budgeting skills, interviewing skills, parenting skills, and time management or organizational skills, educational support, employment training, and counseling.
• Assist young people age 13-17 in licensed foster care or a young adult in extended foster care develop and update their independent living transition plan.
• Assist young adults in extended foster care develop and update their extended foster care case plan.
• Assist eligible clients with applying for Road to Independence Program Postsecondary Educational Services & Support (PESS)
• Assist eligible clients with applying for Education and Training Vouchers (ETV) funding;
• Educate any parties requesting information on ILP services, such as foster parents, mentors.
• Link ILP clients with mentors;
• Coordinate services with other program areas, such as adoptions, behavioral health services, placement and permanency;
• Participate in the quality improvement process.
• Attend all applicable staffings for youth 13-17 years of age; attend court hearings as needed.
• Testify in dependency court proceedings and provide court work to CLS attorneys as needed.
• Other assigned duties as needed.

About the Communities Connected for Kids Program

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in. Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:  Bachelor’s Degree in social work or related field in human services or related field from an accredited school is required.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two (2) years related experience is required.
• Prior foster care transition case management experience is a plus.
• Certification in Child Welfare is preferred.  If not certified, required to obtain credentialing as Child Protection Professional by the Florida Certification Board within 12 months of start date. 
• Valid driver’s license is required.