Foster Care Case Manager

Overview

Step Stone Family & Youth Services provides trauma informed, youth centered services to children and families involved in foster care. The Foster Care Case Manager plays a vital role in supporting youth and foster families through therapeutic case management, service coordination, and individualized support that promotes safety, stability, permanency, and positive outcomes.

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Foster Care Case Manager who is passionate about supporting children and families through trauma-informed, strengths based, and family centered practices. This role is ideal for a professional who understands the impact of trauma, loss, and disrupted family systems and is committed to helping youth and families build resilience and long-term success.

The Foster Care Case Manager works closely with foster families, biological families, treatment teams, schools, and community providers to support placement stability, emotional wellbeing, and coordinated care for youth in foster care placements. Through ongoing communication, advocacy, and service planning, this position helps ensure youth and families receive responsive and supportive services tailored to their unique needs.

The ideal candidate is organized, adaptable, empathetic, and committed to delivering high-quality services while maintaining professionalism, compliance, and a trauma-informed approach throughout all aspects of service delivery.

• Reviews referrals and matches children with appropriate foster families.
• Places children in state licensed or state certified foster homes.
• Obtains all state and agency required documentation for child in care.
• Provides weekly documented contact and bi-weekly visits to child and foster home.
• Visits each assigned child at least once each month away from the foster home.
• Prepares a treatment plan for the child within 21 days of placement and quarterly thereafter.
• Prepares monthly progress reports for assigned children.
• Provides Independent Living training and monthly ILP progress reports for assigned clients.
• Provides reunification services to the biological families when required by treatment plan.
• Coordinates visitation of children with biological parents, siblings, and relatives.
• Provides supervised visits with parents, siblings, and relatives when required by court.
• Acts as liaison person with placing agencies, schools, and other community agencies.
• Attends court hearings and review hearings.
• Attends staff meetings and treatment planning meetings as required.
• Completes interviews, trainings and home studies on prospective foster parents as needed.
• Attends conferences and seminars as required for annual training requirement.
• Conducts/participates in two or more foster parent support group meetings each year.
• Maintains flexible working hours and works weekends or holidays as needed.

The Foster Care Case Manager has a bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field and two years’ experience working with children and families. A bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field and five years’ experience with a placing agency working with troubled children and families may be considered in lieu of a graduate degree.

Step Stone Family and Youth Services, an affiliate of Bright Spring Health Services, provides the full spectrum of support to children in need of alternative, safer, and more positive living environments with residential and family services. Step Stone connects children and youth who need homes with foster families, as well as foster care training, respite care and support services. For young adults transitioning from foster care to independent living, Step Stone provides personalized guidance and training on basic life skills, including money management and education.

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USD $43,888.00 / Year