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Our Foster Care Programs include traditional and therapeutic foster care Unaccompanied Refugee Minor (URM) foster care and Long-Term Foster Care for unaccompanied minors. With teams across the Front Range of Colorado LFSRM foster care staff work diligently to support families throughout the challenges and joys of fostering and to provide trauma-informed interventions and services that help children flourish and grow.

JOB SUMMARY & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Case Manager is responsible for the monitoring and protection of children to provide case management for an assigned caseload coordinate services for children and their families and provide monitoring and support to foster homes.

REQUIRED COMPETANCIES

Occupational Competencies

• Provide case management: Familiarity with assessment care planning facilitation coordination and advocacy for support on behalf of and in collaboration with individuals or families.
• Coordinate services: Knowledge of currently available community resources services and supports and ability to connect children youth or families to appropriate resources to meet their needs through referral application or enrollment assistance.
• Deliver services within diverse cultural communities: Skills and sensitivity in working with children youth and families from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
• Meet standards of practice: Familiarity with social work practice human development and the child welfare system including applicable local state and federal regulations and guidance.
• Provide crisis intervention: Experience with crisis management problem solving and mediation best practices.
• Communicate professionally: Ability to communicate professionally and cooperate with colleagues other professionals community partners and other individuals involved in the care and coordination of services.
• Document efforts: Ability to maintains thorough and timely documentation of activities services and efforts.

Foundational Competencies

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying taking time to understand the points being made asking questions as appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions conclusions or approaches to problems.

EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES

• Manages all assigned cases and maintains face-to-face contact with the youth in placement per state regulations and monitors maintains and conducts ongoing assessment of the needs of the children and families on caseload.
• Facilitates coordination and monitoring of therapeutic health educational cross-cultural and other pertinent resources for youth and families on caseload.
• Generates case notes maintains all necessary documentation to meet timeliness and accuracy standards.
• Provides on-call services for emergencies.
• Participates in court hearings placement review meetings administrative reviews and school meetings.

TRANSPORTATION

Must maintain a valid drivers license and carry personal auto liability insurance at the level of $100000/300000/100000.

• Frequent local regional travel. May be required to transport clients in personal vehicle.
• Local travel with company vehicle.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in social or behavioral sciences.
• If an individual has a Bachelors degree in a non-related field he/she shall have at least two (2) years experience supervised by an individual with a Master of Social Work or other Masters degree in the social or behavioral sciences.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

Required Experience:

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