Child Focused Recruiter
Company: Rising Ground
Location: New York
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Responsible for facilitating the matches of children with
appropriate families by utilizing Child-Focused Recruitment
Strategies Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a working knowledge child welfare system including
adoptions
- Establish personal relationships with referred children and
assist them in honoring the past, present and future through child
readiness activities
- Determines the childs strengths, challenges, desires, and
preparedness for adoption and childs needs through the adoption and
recruitment transition process. A written assessment should be
developed initially and updated on a quarterly basis
- Maintain collaborative relationships with case managers,
therapists, and other members of case management teams
- Articulate Child Focused Recruitment and understand the
difference between General Recruitment, Child Specific Recruitment,
and Targeted Recruitment as demonstrated in the implementation of
Recruitment Services
- Conducts regular monthly contacts with Childs caseworker
- Develop and implement a child-focused (custom) adoption
recruitment plan for each child
- Conducts diligent search of potential adoptive families
including people with past and current connections to the
child
- Meets with significant adults and maintain regular and ongoing
contact (caseworker, foster parent, attorney, CASA volunteer,
teacher, therapist, relative, mentor, faith-based representative,
extra activity leader, etc.)
- Conducts aggressive follow-up with connections identified, with
the knowledge and approval of the childs caseworker
- Provides adoption preparations for children and families,
assists in transition planning
- Demonstrate advocacy through recruitment efforts; responds to
barriers as opportunities
- Align actions, words and behaviors with "unadoptable is
unacceptable"
- Actively recruit permanent resources for assigned children
including individuals connected to the child, biological relatives,
professional contacts in the community, area churches, and any
other resource that may lead to permanency for a child
- Facilitate public relations efforts to recruit and match
potential families and children
- Incorporate child friendly language that is developmentally and
age appropriate
- Communicate the impact of trauma on youth and development
- Conduct initial interviews with person interested in adopting a
waiting child
- Follow all necessary program requirements in terms of case
management, data collections, and reporting as outlined by Wendys
Wonderful Kids program
- Coordinate with supervisor or other Family Foster Care staff on
the completion of any other assigned tasks
- Display sensitivity to the service population's cultural and
socioeconomic characteristics
- Perform other duties related to department goals and projects
as needed Qualifications
- BSW or BA or equivalent degree in human services field
required
- Minimum of 2-4 years' experience in human services field;
preferably foster care or adoption. Some experience in public
relations preferred
Keywords: Rising Ground, New York , Child Focused Recruiter, Human Resources , New York, New York
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