Parent Aid

Job Details:

Job Location:

Columbia Office
- Columbia, MO, Position Type:
Part Time, Salary Range: $15.00 - $17.60

Hourly, We are seeking a Parent Aid to join our team.

Starting Salary: $15.00 - $17.60 (Hourly)

We are seeking a Parent Aid to join our team. Your role will provide support services to parents and families to help strengthen relationships and reunify parents and children. Your role will help develop trusting, nurturing, and supportive relationships with families through short and long term intervention using various social work and educational methods, including individual, and/or group family support, and supervised visitation.

As a member of the MO Foster Care team, you will work with other team members and report to our Director of Foster Care and Adoption.

• Supervises visitation between parents and children in foster care in an office or community setting.
• Engage families through a strength based approach that encourages the client to see their own strengths and make self-directed efforts at change.
• Maintains files according to agency requirements.
• May transport families as necessary.
• Capable of functioning independently, practicing good judgment and discretion in decision making and promote positive parenting and child development while reducing the risk of child maltreatment.
• Demonstrated willingness to work a non-structured flexible schedule which may include evenings and weekends.

Our ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience working with children and families and the following:

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Demonstrate knowledge of child development practice is 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.

• 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. At Cornerstones of Care, we have a vision where equity is not just a goal but is present in all we do;

every team member feels empowered to authentically contribute to their…