Child and Family Advocate and Intake Lead

Child and Family Advocate and Intake Lead

Full-Time, exempt, 40-hour work week, yearly PTO allowance.

Education Coordinator & CAC Program Manager

Responsible for providing advocacy, crisis support, and case management services for child victims of abuse and neglect, and for their non-offending families and caretakers for cases in Carroll, Haralson and Heard Counties that come into the CAC.
Facilitate a streamlined procedure that is victim-centered and trauma-informed. Providing appropriate mental health referrals (after performing on-site PTSD screeners) and streamlining response by collaborating with the whole CAC team. Travel to training sites, partner offices, and other locations will be required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, criminal justice, leadership, social sciences or related field.

• Experience training groups of professionals.

• Experience in child welfare systems, projects, and business practices.

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

• Outgoing, results-oriented work style with high attention to detail.

• No criminal convictions of child abuse or violent crimes.

Desired Qualifications:

• Graduate level work in a related criminal justice/leadership/social sciences field.

• Bilingual (Spanish & English and/or ASL & English)

• Prior experience with DFCS, Law Enforcement and/or Juvenile/Criminal Justice practitioners.

• Database management and facility with GSuite of programs

Position Responsibilities:

• Advocate for children and their families and caretakers connecting them to services across the entire West Georgia community.

• Develop and sustain effective intake, case tracking, services, follow-up SOPs.

• Maintain Collaborate database and responsible for Case Tracking (NCA Standard 08)

• Maintain and develop positive and effective relationships with partners from Prosecution, LawEnforcement, DFCS, Court, and other MDT Partners.

• Respond to all aspects of the NCA Grant - including seeking feedback from families and stakeholders on the work of the WGACAC as we serve military families.

• Ensure a safe and child-friendly environment at WGACAC (NCA Standard 10)

• Represent the organization at networking, conference, training, and community events

• Train on trauma-informed care and improving services provisions at WGACAC.

• Attend and participate in regularly scheduled management, team, and staff meetings.

• Participate in 24/7/365 on-call rotation to provide urgent after-hours services.

• Travel and occasional weekend days and evenings required.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Performance Evaluation/Professional Growth:Ongoing professional growth and support, formally evaluated by the CAC Program manager and/or Executive Director on an annual basis. Opportunities for Professional Growth and goal setting part of all evaluation.

WGACAC is committed to providing equal opportunity in its recruitment, hiring and employment practices without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability, sex, sexual orientation, age, military status, veteran status, or status in any group protected by federal, state, and local law.
WGACAC is committed to a diverse workforce.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $34,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Language:

• Bilingual (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Carrollton, GA 30117 (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $34,500