Bilingual Case Manager; Community-Based Program​/Alameda

Bilingual Case Manager (Community-Based Program / Alameda County)

Lincoln Families is a workplace that is committed to strengths-based, culturally responsive, attachment-centered, and trauma-informed care.

PROGRAM: Kinship

HOURLY RATE: $28.00

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KINSHIP SUPPORT SERVICES:
Children do best when they remain in safe, stable, and familiar environments that relatives can provide. Relative caregivers are the backbone of the child welfare system, stepping up to fill the gaps when challenges take parents away from raising their children. Many are grandparents with special needs liked to age, poverty, poor health, and lack of support and resources.

Lincoln Families’ Kinship program provides supports to kin caregivers so they have the resources needed to raise their relative. Since 2001, our staff have addressed the unique needs of each caregiver and child, providing a variety of supports:

• Family Coaching - Providing advocacy and referral for financial assistance, legal supports, mental health, emergency, and education services
• Education and Skill Building - Offering programs including parenting and school advocacy to prepare and inform caregivers and youth
• Youth Engagement - Providing children and teen activity groups, social and recreational outings, tutoring, and workshop events
• Support Groups - Facilitating gatherings of caregivers to share joys and concerns, learn about resources, and support each other

Children in foster care can face exposure to alcohol and other drugs, abuse, neglect and abandonment, violence in their homes and communities, trauma from separation from birth families, and frequent changes in foster care placement. These experiences place children at greater risk of developing physical, emotional, and behavioral problems that can lead to school failure, teen pregnancy, homelessness, unemployment, and incarceration.

Research shows that living with relatives is better for children and benefits them in many ways. Of children who are not living with their biological parents, 75% of them are being raised by a relative outside of the formal foster care system. Such kin caregivers have little or no time to prepare for this new arrangement and face major barriers in accessing information, benefits, legal assistance, and services.

Reporting to the Program Manager, the Bilingual Case Manager provides case management services to Kinship youth and/or families. Direct work with youth includes developing and implementing a comprehensive individualized plan with goals designed to assist and support the youth’s well-being. Work with families includes linking to and coordinating with resources and community connections that ensure families have access to needed resources to support stability and permanency for kinship children and youth.

This position assists youth and/or families with tutoring, vocational programs, housing, healthcare, benefits, and other family needs; involves planning and facilitating events and workshops; engages in collateral work with caregivers, social workers, teachers and/or other key adults; and utilizes trauma-informed care throughout service provision.

• Provide case management and crisis intervention to assigned kinship youth/family; this includes safeguarding the dignity and protecting the rights and individuality of each kinship youth/family.
• Coordinate services to include intake, assessment, case plan and referrals to community service providers; this includes developing a strong base of client involvement and engagement.
• Maintain ongoing relationships with community service providers, and other agencies/programs to educate and advocate for the needs of youth, families and communities.
• Liaise with service providers to coordinate resources and services for families and to follow up with linkage to services offered.
• Facilitate events for children and families.
• Facilitate youth support groups, caregiver support groups, other trainings or workshops as assigned.
• Develop agency material including project flyers and other outreach materials.
• Participate in agency meetings and community meetings as directed.
• Conduct outreach and recruitment activities to the targeted population to effectively promote program services.
• Complete and maintain all service documentation and statistics as required.
• Requires driving to various locations across Alameda County to deliver services at assigned office(s), in the community or via home visits; this also includes transporting youth or families to community resources and appointments as needed (Case Manager must maintain valid California driver’s license, satisfactory driving record and personal vehicle insurance coverage).

A positive, service-oriented team player who has the ability to exercise sound judgment and work independently on a day-to-day basis. Must have strong organizational and time management skills, proven problem-solving skills, and excellent communication skills both…