Case Manager; Bilingual, English​/Spanish

Location: 1444 N Farnsworth Ave Suite 200

Aurora

Aurora, IL

Job :1132

# of Openings:1

Location: Family Focus - Aurora

Supervisor: Program Supervisor

Family Focus is your partner in building strong families across Chicago and Northeast Illinois! We're here to support families and their children including emergency assistance, immigration programs, child welfare services, family support services, educational programs, and more. Our goal? To help our community thrive and reach its full potential! With 11 centers around Chicagoland, we're eager to expand our reach and make an even bigger impact.

That's why we're on the lookout for passionate individuals who share our vision to join our team as we grow and serve more families. Are you ready to make a difference? We want you to be a part of our journey!

The Bilingual Case Manager is responsible for initiating and maintaining regular (at least weekly) short‑term (up to 30 days) contact/support with families. The Case Manager will provide an assessment of the family for service needs and linkage to available local community resources to prevent or remedy or assist in the solution of problems that may result in neglect or abuse to a child.

This role will conduct family‑centered and strength‑based interventions directed at establishing a trusting relationship. Services are geared towards family reunification, maintaining, strengthening, and safeguarding families to prevent substitute care placement, the need for further involvement in the child welfare system, and ensure children's safety and well‑being.

This position will be working on cases in South Kane County.

• Perform initial assessment of family.
• Ensure the safety and well‑being of involved children; services are being delivered.
• Enable families to resolve minor to moderate challenges and needs that contribute to risk to children.
• Provide weekly home visits to assess family situations focusing on safety and risk issues related to the child.
• Direct intervention to help reduce risk and teach strategies for avoiding risk in the future.
• Verify families' linkage to community resources to include documentation that the family has received and connected to the resources.
• Manage the ongoing waitlist of clients by triaging new clients from the list to the active caseloads.
• Ensure that short‑term services to teach parents how to improve household organization and cleanliness are implemented.
• Ensure that the clients are linked to medical services due to the child's or parent's physical condition, safety, and risk.
• Provide advocacy services to families with public systems such as DHS/TANF, public schools, and others identified through family assessment.
• Maintain records and statistics required by the agency, state, and other funding sources and make suggestions for revision or review.

• Bachelor's in early childhood, social services, or related field.
• Must write and speak fluent English/ Spanish.
• Two years of paid or volunteer experience working with families and children.
• The ability to speak the primary languages of the clients.
• Maturity and experience in successfully working with children (0‑5 years of age) and their families.
• Knowledge of normal child growth/development and parent‑child relationships.
• Ability to approach families from a strength‑based model and a family‑centered service model.
• Available to families after‑hours on an emergency basis.
• Ability to establish and maintain personal/programmatic boundaries while providing supportive services.
• Experience in working with culturally diverse communities and families with the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate.

Salary: $50,000/year. This is a full‑time exempt position.

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Family Focus is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Keywords: Early Childhood Education, Pregnancy, Prenatal, Home visiting, Case Management.