Family Advocate KS

Job Details

Job Location:

Kansas City KS Office - KANSAS CITY, KS 66102

Position Type:
Full Time Salary Range: $44,000.00 - $47,000.00 Salary/year

We are seeking a Family Finding Advocate to join our team.

Salary Range: $44,000 - $47,000 (Salary)

We are seeking a Family Finding Advocate to join our team. Your role will demonstrate creative search methods, genuine engagement practices, critical thinking skills, strong time management skills and excellent decision-making abilities. Using Signs of Safety and Family Finding approaches, you will engage newly referred children and families to identify relatives and connected adults to serve as relative and/or kinship placements, as well as natural supports to the children.

As a member of the KS Foster Care team, you will work with other team members and report to our Manager of Family Finding.

• Provide services to families referred under the Kansas Foster Care Case Management Grant. Use URGENT Search and engagement techniques to identify relatives and other natural supports for children and families:
  Be prepared to work late when needed.
• Meet with the child to identify family, relatives and connected, supportive adults.
• Use creative, diligent and outside-the-box search efforts and continuous early engagement to identify adult relatives, connections, supports and family and Kinship placement options for children entering into child welfare.
• Explore maternal and paternal family and relatives with equal interest and equal efforts to engage.
• Create and maintain a family genogram. Use this genogram to add relatives and connections as they are identified. Document all efforts to engage, actual engagement, relative interest level of support and contact details.

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or other human services related field is required.
• Master’s degree in social work or other human services related field is preferred.
• Case management experience is preferred.
• At least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical, and drug screening
• A valid driver’s license in the state you reside in, proof of current vehicle insurance, and reliable transportation.

Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives. Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas:

• Youth & Family Support – We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.
• Foster Care & Adoption – We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.
• Education & Community Trainings – We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students’ behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.

• Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose.
• Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills.
• Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.
• Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management.
• Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
• Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy…