FTR Family Team Conference Facilitator

Forestdale (FD) is a NYC child welfare agency working to prevent child abuse/neglect through parenting, prevention, and foster care (FC) services, focusing on low-income and immigrant communities in Queens & Brooklyn. We help thousands of families work through acute & complex trauma, parents raise the next amazing generation of children, and youth successfully launch into adulthood. FD’s mission is “to ensure that children and families have the fundamental assets they need to thrive and live independently.”

Job Summary

The Family Team Conference Facilitator is responsible for facilitating Family Team Conferences within the Preventive program, which serves all of Queens and Brooklyn. The facilitator is responsible for creating a structured, safe, and constructive conversation where the family, their supports, and Forestdale staff can come to consensus about the plan for their work together.

Salary Range: $30.21/hr to $35.43/hr

Major Responsibilities/Activities

• Facilitate family team conferences, including initial, comprehensive and reassessment planning conferences.
• Utilizes consensus decision making process to ensure sound decision making involving children, families, service providers and community resources.
• Ensure all safety and risk concerns are identified and addressed in conferences.
• Participate in the team decisions in making recommendations to case planners and other service providers, including referrals and potential resources.
• Collaborate and strengthen partnerships with community representatives to ensure participation and involvement in conferences.
• Complete administrative responsibilities, including the timely documentation and date entry of family team conferences in PROMIS and CONNECTIONS.
• Facilitate at minimum two to four three conferences per day.
• Attend inter/intra agency meetings to share information, develop policies and procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all agency policies, procedures and governmental regulations, including but not limited to HIPAA.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Minimum Requirements

• Exceptional mediation skills to effectively facilitate group conference situations.
• Fluency in Spanish strongly preferred
• Ability to summarize clearly a variety of competing options and to facilitate consensus
• Knowledge and skill with group conferencing processes
• Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school or a related degree; equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
• Three years of full time satisfactory experience practicing social work utilizing casework, group work or community organization methodologies
• Ability to accommodate a flexible work schedule, including evenings and weekends
• Ability to travel in and around the metropolitan New York City region
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret policies and procedures related to the job.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Spanish Speaking Preferred

Benefits

• Four weeks vacation
• Medical/dental/vision/life/disability insurance
• 401(k), 7% employer contribution 2% match
• Tax-deferred health care/dependent care/commuter plans

Additional Information:

Forestdale Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is proudly committed to becoming an anti-racist and multicultural organization that stands up for justice and equity. We welcome prospective employees from diverse backgrounds, for administrative support and direct service and leadership roles, who will join us on that journey, uphold our values and approach, and believe in our mission. Additionally, we aim to have a racially representative leadership and workforce that is reflective of the communities we work in partnership with.

Forestdale Inc. is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, participants, volunteers, subcontractors, and vendors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of our activities or operations. These activities include, but are not limited to, hiring and termination of staff, selection of volunteers and vendors, and provision of services.