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This position offers a $2,000 sign on bonus 60 days after hire (must remain at the agency of 1 year)
A great, entry level position to make a difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities!
Recognizing the value in self care and proper work- life balance Bridges Homeward is currently piloting "Half Day Fridays" for all staff typically scheduled 37.5 hours or more
The Family Support Specialist is a member of Bridges Homeward's Developmental Disabilities Program team, and assists families, children, youth and adult family members referred by the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) in developing life skills, setting and achieving goals, assisting in accessing resources needed to obtain goals, and engaging in activities in the community. Basic Spanish speaking capacity preferred.
HOW YOU WILL BE MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
The Agency: Founded in 1873, Bridges Homeward has evolved over time into a group of dynamic, highly dedicated, mission driven professionals meeting the current needs of the Greater Boston community. Bridges Homeward is committed to strengthening and advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion, for our staff and those we serve. We are seeking staff that align with our commitment, as individuals and as a community, to continually seek to advance racial equity initiatives to address long-standing systemic racial biases and discrimination in our society. Our goal for every person we work with is for them to find permanency; a healthy, nurturing relationship with an adult that they can count on for the rest of their life. Sometimes, permanency in our work means making sure a child can remain with their biological family; sometimes it means ensuring someone with a developmental disability can live with family instead of having to move to an institutional setting; sometimes it means finding a child in foster care a forever family and for other youth it means having a safe, secure parenting relationship with a supportive adult. Join our supportive team environment today!
How we invest in our staff:
REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
Bridges Homeward is passionate about our mission and clients, and welcome staff with lived experience. We are actively recruiting candidates with lived experience in a Bridges Homeward program area of focus which includes having been adopted yourself, adopted a child, experience with kinship care, guardianship, young parenting (age 22 or younger,) having been a youth in foster care, experience as a foster parent or in a family who fostered, having family involvement with DSS/DCF/DDS, experienced childhood trauma, have a developmental disability or have a family member with a developmental disability.
Other requirements:
Full Time
$43k-57k (estimate)
04/20/2024
07/09/2024