Families Together Building Solutions Worker

Position Summary

This position provides homebased services to assist in reducing child abuse/neglect, solution-focused services to assist families with meeting behaviorally specific goals and aims to keep families intact. This position works alongside families to decrease the risk of child abuse/neglect and out of home placement and help effectively meet the needs of at-risk families. The Families Together Building Solutions worker will enhance household management skills, the use of transportation networks, communication and conflict resolution skills, and increase the use and awareness of community resources.

This position will serve Kalamazoo county.

Wage:
Up to $47,715.20 annually; $22.94/hour based on relevant work experience.

Are you passionate about discovering new ways to help empower people and make a difference in their lives?

If you’ve got what it takes to support us in our mission to provide help and create hope through innovative, collaborative, and diverse programs within the community, then we’ve got the right opportunity for you.

Catholic Charities West Michigan (CCWM) is a community-based agency providing programs in Western Michigan and offering a variety of services in family preservation, behavioral health, child welfare, and community outreach.

• CCWM is committed to ensuring a diverse workforce and a work environment whereby all staff are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness.
• CCWM encourages persons of diverse backgrounds and faiths to apply for employment.

• Provides services in accordance with the FTBS contract requirements.
• Adheres to the Solution-Focused, Brief Therapy Treatment Model.
• Provides in-home services for 90 days in duration with a possible extension up to an additional 90 days.
• Provides an average of 3 hours per week per family in face-to-face service.
• Transports clients utilizing personal vehicle, as needed.
• Maintains a caseload up to 6 families simultaneously.
• Flexible work schedules must be maintained to ensure appointments are scheduled based on families’ needs and to allow for timely crisis intervention.
• Completes all trainings as required by the contract and the agency.
• Conducts an assessment of family history to include strengths, needs, and child development, and develop goals in coordination with the family. Regularly update service plan to reflect changes in the family’s circumstances, needs, and goal progress.
• Writes Initial Prevention Plans, Updated Prevention Plans, and Closing Prevention Plans.
• Provides direct services to help the family strengthen protective factors and attain goals outlined in the Service Plan. Services should meet the individual needs of the family.
• Teaches, models, and documents Infant Safe Sleep teaching and practices for all families with an infant aged less than one year.
• Develops a proactive and reactive safety plan with each family, based on identified risk factors, and continually assess appropriate safety planning.
• Conducts a routine inquiry for domestic violence with each referred family.li>
• Makes referrals to other services as appropriate.
• Works collaboratively with all other service providers involved with the family and the referring worker to assist the family toward goal achievement.
• Completes mandatory MDHHS releases and authorizations.
• Observes and interview parents and children, using skills from Protective Factors Framework® and document the Protective Factors observed.
• Administers Specific Assistance Funds, averaging $100.00 per family served, in support of activities and purchases that reduce the risk of out-of-home placement, and support the achievement of goals.
• Participates in weekly supervision sessions, case reviews, bi-weekly team meetings and other meetings as required.
• Submits a weekly summary of all face-to-face to the referring worker for all open cases.
• Conducts a termination meeting with the family to summarize the progress made during the intervention and options for maintaining progress.
• Provides parent(s) with the Protective Factors Survey Retrospective to complete within seven days prior to case termination.
• Administers a family…