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Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.
The Bilingual Foster Care Specialist is a critical member of the region’s child welfare team, working collaboratively within and across programs to ensure a relentless focus on keeping children safe and supporting families, consistent with our agency's Blueprint of Impact, which includes replacing what we currently think of as child welfare services with what we know to be child, family, and community well-being solutions. As a Bilingual Foster Care Specialist, you will gain experience in collaborating with families who have an indicated report of abuse or neglect to work towards a safe reunification or an alternative permanency plan to ensure the wellbeing of every child. Your daily routine will involve providing comprehensive and trauma-informed case management services to a reduced case load of families involved in the child welfare system and providing supplemental services to families assigned to Advanced and Lead Specialists. Case management services include assessing the safety and needs of children and families, engaging biological families to assist them in strengthening their parenting skills and knowledge, providing support to foster families to ensure the needs of the foster children are consistently and appropriately met, establishing collaborative relationships with service providers and institutions that play a role in the family’s situation, monitoring biological families’ efforts and progress towards goals aimed at family reunification and providing testimony in the Juvenile Court System regarding the best interest of children and families. With support from your supervisor and the Lead Specialist on your team, you will be supported in developing the required competencies to be promoted into an Advanced Specialist position within 6-12 months of hire.
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We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.)
We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.
Click here to review our agency’s Blueprint for Impact.
Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$56k-70k (estimate)
12/07/2023
05/01/2024
mybrightpoint.org
FORT WAYNE, IN
100 - 200
1965
HAROLD POFF
$10M - $50M
Social & Legal Services
Mission Brightpoint helps communities, families, and individuals remove the causes and conditions of poverty Vision Brightpoint envisions a world without poverty in which all people have access to opportunities and are treated with dignity.
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