Licensing Specialist

Fostering Futures is a private, non‑profit foster care and adoption agency in Ann Arbor, MI, and offers its staff many benefits beyond meaningful work!

Come enjoy: supportive staff, a warm and friendly office environment with cozy couches and colorful work spaces, FIVE weeks of paid time off per year plus twelve holidays, competitive child welfare salaries, very good health benefits (largely covered by the agency), clinical supervision for LMSW licensure, an agency committed to ongoing improvement and work in EDI, and longstanding history as a Gold Seal Human Rights Campaign agency, known for its welcoming of the LGBTQ community, and a very flexible work environment.

Plan and coordinate the initial and ongoing development of foster families. Recruit, train, and license foster families, and facilitate their ongoing licensing.

The full‑time Licensing Specialist position requires a BA/BS degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or a human service‑related degree. The Licensing Specialist must have a valid driver’s license.

• Recruit, license, and maintain foster families according to agency and state guidelines, including conducting initial intake and screening, completing all enrollment paperwork, and initiating and maintaining foster parent files.
• Assess relative and fictive kin caregiver homes on an ongoing basis, collecting all information required to ensure compliance with current agency and state licensing rules and regulations, including the safety of children in their homes.
• Complete annual and renewal evaluations; update placement documentation in foster parent records; and enter all licensing‑related contacts in CWLM within expected time frames per policy.
• Investigate suspected non‑compliance with state licensing rules and regulations and make licensing status recommendations as needed.
• Plan ongoing development and training of foster parents, assess foster family and youth needs on an ongoing basis.
• Represent the agency at community events (including some weekend events) and participate in collaboration meetings, including the Washtenaw County Coalition and other county coalition meetings throughout BSC 4 and 5.
• Perform all duties with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, maintaining awareness of implicit and explicit bias in all client and staff interactions, and continuing professional development through training, seminars, and conferences to meet state‑required in‑service hours per fiscal year.
• Provides on‑call 24‑hour crisis assistance through the rotation of the agency’s emergency cell phone.
• Ensure timely entry of all foster parent information and licensing‑related contacts into CWLM in accordance with policy, and load all required family‑related reports and forms into the current state system.
• Always represent the agency in an appropriate, professional, and positive manner in the agency and the community at large.

If you are interested in applying, please submit an online application on our website – https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Additionally, please send your resume and a writing sample to jboeving & kboeving.