Hiring Range: $56,079 to $72,903

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Program Coordinator – Parent Resource Program

Employer Description

The City of Fredericksburg is a growing community of “Endless Possibilities” with a rich history and diverse residents and neighborhoods. The vibrant downtown area has a variety of wonderful restaurants, downtown shops, and nature trails – all close to the beautiful Rappahannock River.

Each day is an opportunity to make a difference and our team of committed professionals works tirelessly “Helping people triumph over hardships to promote healthier futures within our community”. As a learning organization, the City of Fredericksburg DSS is a place where you can make a difference and help pave the way for the next generation of human service delivery.

The City is a member of the Virginia Retirement System, offers competitive health, dental and vision insurance, generous vacation/sick leave benefits, 14 paid holidays a year,8 hours per year of paid volunteer hours to be completed at your charity of choice, employee assistance programs for counseling on many topics, tuition assistance program and several other benefit offerings.

Job Summary

The Program Coordinator for the Resource Parent Program provides intensive and specialized, culturally competent support to prospective and certified resource/foster and adoptive families. The Program Coordinator uses evidence-based curricula and techniques to assess and train individuals/families who are interested in providing resource home placements for youth in foster care.

Essential Job Functions

• Trains and certifies perspective resource/kin/fictive kin/adoptive parents using evidenced-based curricula.
• Assesses applicant’s understanding of training materials, assesses their ability to participate in the resource parent program and their ability to provide a safe, nurturing home for a child in need.
• Prepares written Home Studies utilizing information gathered during training, and through face-to-face interviews, collateral interviews, required background investigations and visits to the home.
• Performs case management of resource homes including entering contacts into the OASIS statewide system, adding families to the Resource Home data base, and performing regular routine home reviews.
• Works closely with the treatment team to identify a resource family for placement of child(ren).
• Recruits resource families by making presentations to community groups, schools and other professional groups based on the need for resource parents in the City of Fredericksburg.
• Facilitates Family Partnership Meetings (FPM) and conducts VEMAT’s
• Develops recruitment marketing materials.
• Performs recertification process for resource families.
• Establishes and reports on key program outcomes to management on a regular basis.
• Administers program budget including grant application and regular program financial updates.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of social work principles; including normal and abnormal behavior, child development, social challenges and family dynamics.
• Knowledge of local, State and federal laws, ordinances, rules and regulations governing social services programs, foster care, adoption, and child and adult protective services, programs as administered through the State and City Social Services programs.
• Knowledge of the forms, documents and manuals associated with assigned social services programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer candidate be trained as a PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education) Instructor and Traditions of Care Instructor
• Prefer candidate be a trained FPM (Family Partnership Meeting) Facilitator
• Prefer Candidate be trained as a VEMAT (Virginia Enhanced Maintenance Assessment Tool) Rater

Work Environment

Fredericksburg DSS does offer Hybrid Telework opportunities for this position.

The work is regularly performed in an environment where the employee must deal with crisis situations that require major decisions involving people, resources, and property. Tasks may risk exposure to high levels of stress and/or violence from distressed clients and their families.

Why Fredericksburg DSS?

We asked our employees their favorite reason to work/stay at Fredericksburg DSS and here’s what they said:

• “The benefits of working for a small but dense locality of a quaint city allows for us to be more interconnected among other departments, leading to networking abilities that aren't as easily possible in large counties”.
• “I like working for the City of Fredericksburg Department of Social Services because I like working with a small agency who clearly cares about their clients! Clients are not a number, but living, breathing, individuals and families who need our assistance to become better equipped to manage their sometimes stressful lives”.
• I think a good reason for working here is: "Our management (or leadership) is always willing to listen to new ideas and make changes that will benefit the growth of the agency and employees".
• “The intimate size of our agency contributes to the comradery between employees”.
• ” My favorite part of working at Fredericksburg DSS is the relationships I have with the people in my unit. My strengths can shine, and my colleagues bring strengths to the table that I don't have. We are very much a team in that we help each other out whenever needed. I also have a great professional relationship with my supervisor; in large part because of her, I feel like a valued team member who is allowed to delve into my strengths as well as have a life outside of work”.

The City of Fredericksburg DSS is a close-knit group of professionals who work with a purpose toward our mission of “Helping people triumph over hardships to promote healthier futures within our community”.

Pay Grade: 214

Pay Range: $56,079 - $72,903