Case Planner

Position Overview

The Case Planner works with the entire family in evidenced based or non-evidenced based model programs. The Case Planner makes safety-focused assessments of the child and family, and provides counseling services, advocacy and refers for concrete services to help stabilize the environment, improve family well-being, and to reduce the future need for child welfare involvement.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Advocate for cultural racial, gender equity and diversity; utilize families’ cultural values and strengths
• Empower families to solve their own problems
• Collaborate with communities to provide resources for families
• Use empathy as an engagement tool
• Push to get work done timely
• Use supervision as a vehicle for guidance and support

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Assess and address any safety and risk concerns related to children’s health, safety and well-being.
• Evaluate living conditions of clients through home base contacts.
• Provide supportive case work counseling to children and family members.
• Identify and provide access to specific concrete services and community resources, when necessary or requested.
• Collaborate with external resources in the family’s ecology e.g. school, medical provider, mental health providers, CPS worker, probation, extended family and community members, etc.
• May conduct specialized groups for children, adolescents, parents, etc.
• Attend conferences at ACS offices and other community based meetings.
• Complete weekly progress notes in CONNECTIONS and enter data into PROMIS
• Complete and update timely Family Assessment Service Plan Reports (FASP).
• Attend ACS and JB trainings as required.
• Carry caseload size as identified by program service model.
• Assess and refer children and families to supportive and concrete services, i.e. mental health, substance abuse, housing, financial assistance, legal, etc.
• Participates in internal and external continuous quality improvement projects.
• Monitor children regarding their medical needs, such as compliance with periodic physicals and immunizations.
• Attend Family Team Conferences (FTCs).

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED

• Bachelors or Masters level degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling or a related subject.
• Travel in the community and home-based work.
• Evening hours are required, on occasion.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

• Bilingual/bicultural.
• Prior experience working in the child welfare system or with children and families.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

BENEFITS

• Generous paid time off in addition to 15 agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee