Resource Development Specialist - Positive Impacts

Description

*This position is employed by our partner Positive Impacts a social services staffing agency. 

A Resource Development Specialist performs services to ensure that foster/relative parents are trained, licensed, and re-licensed within a specified time frame. The Resource Development Specialist finds alternative care placements for children with a primary focus on permanency, and safety for the child.

FamilyForward is committed to upholding the Organizational Health Anchors that we have set for the agency, including safety; mindfulness and self-regulation; relational health; cultural diversity, inclusivity, equity, and anti-racism; clinical lens; vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.

What puts FamilyForward Out Front:

• Strong peer support with a focus on teamwork
• Get paid to change lives and reshape communities
• Emphasis on professional learning, growth, and development

What to expect on a given day as a Resource Development Specialist:

• You will develop community resources to assist foster and adoptive parents.
• You will attend community activities to promote foster care and recruitment as needed which often includes after hours events.
• You will perform pre-service responsibilities including initial screening, home study assessment, and completion of all related forms in compliance of policies of CPP/FF, COA, and CD for foster/relative licensure.
• You will complete re-licensing requirements for foster, and relative parents within specified time frames.
• You will meet FamilyForward’s annual goal for number of licensed foster parents, and assist with the on-going retention of foster parents
• You will provide and train STARS curriculum for traditional foster parents, and relative foster parents, and /or other pre-service training
• You will provide monthly training, and support groups for foster parents, and kinship parents.
• You will visit providers at least once per quarter or more if necessary.
• You may participate on an afterhours rotational on-call, and office intake.
• You will complete 20 hours of annual training, 3 hours of which will be in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
• As with all positions this is not an all-inclusive list of duties or projects that you will be asked to perform.

You would be a good fit for this position if you:

• Have a bachelor’s degree in an area such as: social work, or a comparable human service field preferably with 2 years’ experience; master’s degree preferred
• Have a minimum of 1-year professional employment in the delivery of proactive social services, family preservation services, or targeted case management services in a public or private agency.
• Have demonstrated experience as a positive contributor in a close team, community relationship, and with community resource mobilization.
• Have a valid driver’s license, personal automobile, and valid automobile insurance.

Qualifications

Salary : $20 - $22