Therapeutic Foster Care Social Worker

Company: HEALTH CONNECT AMERICA, INC
Location: Lanham
Posted on: January 30, 2025

Job Description:

Overview: Foundations for Home and Community, a non-profit organization established in 2000, provides therapeutic / specialized foster care services in Maryland. Youth served in Foundations typically have abandonment, family, emotional, and behavioral issues, as well as educational and community-related concerns. We specialize in providing an innovative approach to working with at-risk youth and their families. We apply Systems of Care principles to create public/private community partnerships that:

• Build on the strengths of the youth and their families
• Teach life skills to youth and their families
• Help youth and their families to develop alternative coping strategies
• Support cultural diversity Responsibilities: The Therapeutic Foster Care Social Worker will:
  • Provides comprehensive family based foster care and adoption child case management services and comprehensive family case management services to assigned cases.
  • Complies with all deadlines for reports.
  • Participates in Family Treatment Team Meetings and other required meetings on the case.
  • Attends court hearings on assigned cases as required.
  • Provides emergency back-up services after working hours when needed. Qualifications:
    • Minimum of Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Master's Degree preferred.
    • Minimum of LBSW or LGSW
    • Two or more years' direct clinical services experience with children, adolescents, and/or adults and families. Previous foster care or case management experience strongly preferred.

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