Bilingual Case Planner - AOBH

Bilingual Case Planner - AOBH Overview

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care, help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong, help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing.

Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole‑person, whole‑family, and whole‑life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

• Provide case planning/case management and social work services to the pregnant and parenting youth in the maternity residence and the mother/child residential program.
• Complete intake interviews; produce psycho‑social evaluation reports; collaborate and assist child care staff in developing ICMP (Individual Crisis Management Plan).
• Collaborate with clinicians of NYF Mental Health Department regarding the youth’s initial mental health screenings and annual development screenings of the babies.
• Collaborate with the respective Hospital Pre‑Natal & Obstetric Clinic staff, and NYF Medical Clinic staff regarding ongoing health care of the pregnant and parenting youth and their infants.
• Provide weekly individual counseling sessions with pregnant youth and bi‑weekly individual counseling sessions with parenting youth; fulfill required contacts with the biological families of these youth; make home visits as required.
• Co‑facilitate weekly therapeutic group with pregnant and parenting youth in the program.
• Document all contacts, interviews, casework and case planning sessions in Connections; complete FASP’s and Court Reports/Permanency Hearing Reports in a timely manner.
• Attend all required Court Hearings.
• Comply with NYF, ACS and NYS face‑to‑face contacts and record‑keeping requirements.
• Ensure completion of all Mother/Baby Referral Packages for the pregnant youth in the maternity residence, including psycho‑social evaluation, psychiatric evaluation and psychological evaluation for processing to ACS Office of Placement and the Case Planning agency.
• Attend bi‑weekly team update meetings with maternity and mother/child Program staff.
• Schedule treatment team conferences for all pregnant youth with the case‑planning agency/ACS/DCP, NYF psychiatrist and psychologist; schedule FTC conferences for the parenting youth.
• Assure implementation of the Service Plan Goals as agreed upon at the FTC conferences.
• Actively participate in individual and group supervision; clinical case conferences; treatment team meetings; FTC conferences; discharge conferences; program staff meetings and ongoing in‑service trainings.
• Provide weekly parenting education group lessons to parenting teens in the mother/child AOBH program.
• Provide weekly pregnancy education through individual and group lessons to pregnant teens at the AOBH program.
• Attend all required trainings.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

• BA/BS in Psychology, Social Work or Sociology; MA/MSW preferred.
• At least 2 years of child welfare experience, with experience working with adolescents.
• Good understanding of adolescent development and pregnancy.
• Strong clinical skills.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Good computer skills and familiarity with Connections.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.

Bachelor’s Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or credential evaluation for a non‑U.S. educational institution.

• Entry level

• Full‑time

• Other

• Individual and Family Services