Family Advocate, Family Treatment and Rehabilitation, Bronx

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Department/Program:

Family Treatment and Rehabilitation (FTR)

Position Title:

Family Advocate

Position Type:

Full-Time, Hourly, Non-Exempt

Schedule:

35 hours/week

Format:

Hybrid

Department/Program:

Family Treatment and Rehabilitation (FTR)

Location:

1946 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10457

Direct Supervisor:

Supervisor, FTR

Direct Reports (if Any):

N/A

About Graham:

Graham provides life-changing tools and resources for children, young adults and families who face some of the most difficult obstacles caused by poverty, racial injustice, and lack of access to educational opportunities, living wage employment, quality healthcare, and affordable housing.

We collaborate with communities and strong partners to create and implement innovative strategies so everyone can lead healthy, joyful, and successful lives.

Program Description:

The Family Treatment/ Rehabilitation Program (FTR) located in Bronx, NY offers intensive preventive case management services to families at risk of removal of children to foster care due to neglect and abuse. Risk factors for families served by the FTR program are sometimes advanced as a result of caretakers’ drug use and/ or mental illness. The stressors of poverty, substance use, instability and criminal justice involvement can greatly compromise a parent’s capacity to care for her children, despite strong desires to be engaged.

Our goal is to partner with families to keep them together while ensuring that children will be safely cared for.

Principal Objective/Role Overview:

Family Advocates assist their unit’s team in efforts to develop and promote early engagement with parents whenever a new intake is assigned within the first 30 days and to help with advocacy around resources and services offered in their communities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Engagement
• Build relationships and support parents in coping with the trauma of child welfare involvement, making decisions for their families and communicating effectively with those involved in their case.
• Partner with case planners to help families engage and navigate targeted resources
• Prepare parents and participate in Family Team Conferences including but not limited to ERC, Safety Conference, Service Termination Conference, Six Month Service Plan Review, Joint home visits, Administrative Meeting with Families as well as 30 / 45-day conferences, Six Month Service) and court proceedings.
• Encourage parents to engage in supportive interventions that will strengthen their families.
• Encourage parents to participate in our Family Success Interventions (Baby & Me, Visit Outreach to parents via text messages, phone calls or emails to build relationships while connecting parents to community resources as needed.
• Review Parent Engagement Guide with parents to acquaint parents with the child welfare processes.
• Coaching
• Coach parents to develop skills that will allow them to independently develop problem-solving skills while discovering their strengths, hopes, dreams as well as their priorities.
• Work in collaboration with Case Planner to appropriately assess the needs of the parents to create measurable goals while determining what barriers could affect the desired outcomes.
• Facilitate bi-weekly support groups utilizing Network and Parent Café Model, (staff to be trained in the model).
• Escort parents to scheduled court appearances for support, to scheduled appointments or shopping to purchase items requested by the agency.
• Recognize and celebrate parents whenever they make simple or significant progress service goals.
• Collective Approach
• Collaborate and maintain effective and timely communication with team members, case planners as well as other stakeholders to ensure that the overall needs of the parents are met.
• Participate in routine case consultation with case planning teams…