Director of Youth Well-Being and Clinical Permanency Supports

Director of Youth Well-Being and Clinical Permanency Supports

Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Well-Being Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Bereavement Leave
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Short & Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Employee Discounts
• 401k Plan with 3% Employer Contribution

The mission of Family Support Services is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.

Job Summary: 

The position provides strategic and operational leadership across Youth Well-Being (pre- and post-18) and all adoption and recruitment-related functions. This role ensures a coordinated continuum that prioritizes permanency, stability, well-being, and long-term success for youth and young adults.

The Director oversees clinical and programmatic support that strengthens permanency outcomes, including supports for teens, young adults, adoptive families, and caregivers. This includes leadership of adoption recruitment and support activities, therapeutic and trauma-informed practices, youth voice initiatives, and cross-system collaboration with Case Management Organizations (CMOs), behavioral health partners, and community stakeholders.

This position uses qualitative and quantitative data to assess program effectiveness, inform continuous quality improvement, and ensure compliance with administrative code, contract requirements, and best practice standards.

Essential Duties:

Leadership & Operations

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of Youth Well-Being, clinical permanency supports, and adoption-related programs.
• Ensure programs serving youth pre- and post-18 are coordinated, developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, and outcome-driven.
• Supervise and support managers and specialized staff, fostering a culture aligned with FSS values.

Permanency & Adoption

• Lead adoption and recruitment activities, including assessment, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of recruitment strategies.
• Monitor qualitative and quantitative adoption and permanency outcomes in partnership with CMOs.
• Support and facilitate permanency-related staffing processes, including AARC as applicable.
• Ensure families and caregivers have access to appropriate clinical, technical, and supportive resources necessary for successful permanency.

Youth Well-Being & Clinical Supports

• Oversee the implementation and sustainability of therapeutic and evidence-informed models (e.g., TBRI and other teen-focused interventions).
• Ensure youth and caregivers receive supports that promote stability, resilience, and long-term well-being.
• Integrate youth voice through oversight of the Youth Empowerment Board, ensuring lived experience informs planning, policy, and system improvement.

Compliance, Training & System Alignment

• Review, interpret, and implement policy requirements related to youth, young adults, and permanently committed children.
• Provide guidance, training, and consultation to CMOs to ensure practice alignment and compliance.
• Monitor contracts and partner performance related to permanency and youth well-being services.

Performance & Continuous Quality Improvement

• Use data, feedback, and lived experience to assess program effectiveness and guide decision-making.
• Identify gaps in services and lead development or enhancement of programs to meet emerging needs.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.  
• Master’s degree in social work, mental health counseling, or a related clinical field strongly preferred.

Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration:

• Valid driver’s license. 
• Registered Intern, LMHC, or LCSW preferred.
• Trauma Trained and Adoption competency preferred. 

Experience: 

• Minimum of five to seven years of progressively responsible experience working with at-risk children, youth, and/or families.
• Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience required.
• Experience with adoption, permanency supports, or adoption recruitment preferred.
• Experience working with high-risk or transition-age youth and young adults (pre- and post-18) strongly preferred.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Ability to:

• Represent self and the organization in a professional manner 
• Work independently with little direct supervision
• Think and write creatively
• Assess a situation and make appropriate recommendations/ decisions
• Research, organize and analyze data
• Solve problems and to think through critical, time sensitive issues
• Establish and maintain relationships
• Work collaboratively with staff at all levels in the organization
• Follow through on commitments, projects and responsibilities
• Read, research and interpret documents such as newspapers, contracts, manuals, journals, financial reports, etc.
• Communicate effectively through writing including articles, presentations, speeches, reports, correspondence, and documentation.
• Speak effectively before small and large groups.
• Calculate figures and amounts.  
• Maintain confidential information

Knowledge of:

• State, Federal and local employment laws
• Recruitment and retention practices
• Trauma-informed approaches
• Behavioral Health needs

Skills:

• Strong Written and Verbal Communication  
• Strong follow-up and follow through
• Strong organizational and time management 
• Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Word. Experience with PowerPoint

Other Requirements:

• Clear a Level II Background screening (Live Scan) in which your fingerprints will be used to conduct the screening. Please see the link with further details: https://info.flclearinghouse.comClear a reference check
• Clear a local background check from the County in which you reside
• Clear a substance abuse screen
• Provide a copy of all degrees prior to your first day of employment
• Clear a Motor Vehicles Records check and must be insurable under the company’s automobile policy.
• Provide copy of automobile insurance.
• Provide proof of and maintain a minimum personal auto liability insurance level of $100,000/$300,000 if deemed to be a driving risk.
• Clear an E-Verify check to substantiate that the successful candidate meets the Department of Homeland Security authorization requirements to work in the United States (for more information visit www.dhs.gov/e-verify)

FSS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. FSS is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Human Resources at c6.hr@fssnf.org.

Salary : $100,000 - $300,000