Director of Foster Care and Adoption

Overview

We are seeking a Director of Foster Care & Adoption to join our team. Starting Salary: $70,000.

This role will lead others who manage foster care and adoption and other related services in multiple counties. Through these leaders, the Director is ultimately responsible for providing strategic leadership of programs and services. The Director will lead their teams to achieve the highest program quality and financial health, while ensuring all team members strive to deliver services that lead to long-term positive impact on the safety and health of communities.

As a member of the MO Foster Care team, you will work with other team members and report to our Senior Director Family Support Programs & Services.

• Directs, plans and coordinates the work of the program staff including supervision and evaluation, training and team building.
• Organizes, attends and facilitates departmental meetings to maintain effective communication and support employee engagement and support of Cornerstones of Care's mission and strategic priorities.
• Ensures adequate and qualified staff to carry out the program activities.
• In consultation with Human Resources and other leadership staff, selects, hires, and coaches program staff.
• Implements, manages, supervises and evaluates all activities of the program in accordance with accrediting standards and other requirements, such as government contracts.

Our ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience providing child welfare services, preferably in foster care and adoption as well as the following:

• Master's degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or other human services related field, required.
• 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 attachment relationships.
• Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.

At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity, feels deeply welcomed, valued, and empowered. We envision a diverse community where inclusion and welcoming are prioritized. A community where all voices are heard, listened to, and respected. A community where everyone's physical, emotional, social, and psychological needs are met. We hold a collective commitment to WIDE (welcoming, inclusion, diversity, and equity) that will drive us forward as a stronger organization.

• We partner for safe and healthy communities.
• We cultivate a culture in which children, families, team members, volunteers, donors, and community partners feel welcomed, safe, respected, empowered, and celebrated.
• We value diversity of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, geographical location, pregnancy, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic, and military status.
• We stand for anti-racism, equity, and inclusivity.
• We insist and affirm that discrimination and violence have no place in safe and healthy communities, including in our organization.
• We strive toward a more welcoming, inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization through our policies, partnerships, and practices.

Cornerstones of Care offers a competitive benefits package,…