ReNew Woman's Advocacy Case Manager

Job Category
:
Social Services - Domestic Programs

Requisition Number
: RENEW
001147

• Full-Time

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SD-Rapid City
217 Kansas City St
Ste 142 & 144
Rapid City, SD 57701, USA

SD-Rapid City
217 Kansas City St
Ste 142 & 144
Rapid City, SD 57701, USA

Rooted in our Christian faith, Bethany Christian Services works to ensure children are safe, loved, and connected through family. Across 29 states, we strengthen families, support foster care and adoption, and walk alongside refugees with compassion. Here, living out your faith means using your gifts to bring hope and make a lasting impact.

Since 2019,ReNewhas provided expectant mothers with effective, evidence-based support that addresses past trauma and other root causes of substance use. As a ReNew Woman's Advocacy Case Manager—you’ll protect children and help women shatter cycles of addiction.

• Provide comprehensive case management services and life skills education to include conflict resolution, family planning, career planning, self-sufficiency, education, health maintenance, environmental health, role modeling, child development, and goal setting for clients referred by community resources;
• Develop a comprehensive service plan with a consumer and family-centered focus with strategies for recovery;
• Develop a full-cycle birthing plan to include linkage and prenatal follow-through coordination;
• Locate and develop positive working relationships with local OB/GYNs or prenatal clinics, while also ensuring that the woman is fully participating in prenatal care;
• Develop a parenting plan or “Plan of Safe Care” that prepares collaboration with Child Protective Services (CPS) at time of birth and addresses the mother, infant, and family needs;
• Develop and maintain early intervention, WIC, and other community resources;
• Cultivate information sharing between all providers related to the woman’s progress and challenges;
• Coordinate the necessary interventions and services provided by multiple agencies;
• Provide home visitation services and maintain regular contact with the woman and baby;
• Facilitate parenting education using Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) during home visits;
• Complete paperwork within appropriate time frames;
• Coordinate with Perinatal Cooperatives/Risk Reduction Specialists in educating medical community partners on stigma around pregnant women with Substance Use Disorders (SUD);
• Effectively prepare a woman for birthing including the potential for child welfare involvement in the event of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), as well as accessing a pediatrician familiar with this prenatal exposure;
• Prepare woman for living and care arrangements for infant;
• Effectively advocate on behalf of the family;
• Maintain on-going contact with service providers that includes progress reports, status updates, and any other critical information, while participating in multidisciplinary meetings as needed;
• Coordinate team meetings that bring all formal systems together on behalf of the woman from pregnancy through 1-year post delivery, as needed;
• Attend and participate in meetings to include but not limited to SUD/Child Welfare consortia, and Perinatal Addictions meetings as needed;
• Provide the appropriate care and community referrals, as needed;
• Stay abreast of all agency, federal, and state regulatory requirements related to social services;
• Essential job responsibilities may vary based on the specific needs of each program/department;
• May be required or asked to participate in a Bethany sponsored event;
• Complete other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s level degree in Social Science, Human Services, Behavioral Science, Psychology, Education, or related field of study from an accredited college;
• At…