Kinship Finder

Level: Experienced,

Job Location:

1946 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10457 - Bronx, NY 10457, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $62,850.63 - $64,850.63 Salary/year

• Position Title:
  
  Kinship Home Finder
• Position Type:
  Full Time – Exempt
• Schedule:
  
  Monday - Friday
• Format:
  Hybrid
• Department/Program:
  Recruitment, Development and Support (RDS)
• Location:
  
  1946 Webster Avenue, Bronx NY 10457
• Direct Supervisor:
  Linda Echols
• Direct Reports (if any): N/A

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.

At Graham Windham our Enhanced Family Foster Care programs help children to get back to their families, adopted into a new family or connected to someone who is willing to be an anchor for children, throughout their childhood and into adulthood. To help us do that, we have hundreds of loving & highly qualified foster parents primarily in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the Bronx - who serve as our foster children's substitute family.

The Kinship Home Finder Specialist will search for and identify maternal and paternal relatives and fictive resources for children placed in non-kinship homes in our community foster care and EFFC programs, within 30 days of placement with Graham using the Family Finding Model. Work in collaboration with case planners to engage and support kinship families through coaching and facilitation of support groups specifically for Kinship resources.

• Identify kinship resources for children in non-kinship placements. Build relationship by having regular contact with kin/fictive resources to develop openness and trust. Builds a network with persons close to and knowledgeable about the child and maintain regular and on-going contact with them.
• Engage in recruiting Kinship foster parents, by utilizing data base, social media, etc.
• Provides family search efforts by implementing the process of identifying, locating, and contacting persons with whom the child already has, or had, a bond or positive relationship with, with the knowledge and approval of the child’s caseworker.
• Prepares and submits reports, calendars and other deliverables as required by agency supervisor, NYC Children’s Services and/or OCFS. Assure scheduling, monitoring and tracking of all possible kinship resources.
• Facilitate and scheduled 30-day conference with case planning team to discuss the outcome or barriers in identifying kinships. Tracks all identified kinship resources until placement. Actively participate in the Initial placement conference for non-kinship cases
• Maintain and update foster parent “soft” files and CONNECTIONS records by completing related reports and inputting data in a timely fashion.
• Collaborate and work with families, case management team (Case Planner, Supervisor and/or Director) in identifying next to Kin
• Participate in weekly supervision sessions with supervisors to discuss status and progress of identifying Kinship resources, etc. as well as to appraisee of any impending problems and/or unresolved issues.
• Participate in staff meetings, seminars and training as scheduled; maintains and applies a current knowledge of internal and external regulations and policies applicable to foster care and adoption.
• The core of the kinship finder is to continuously assess, connect and sustain…