Facilitator - CW

About the role

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all quarterly permanency-related Team Decision Making Conferences, crisis-driven conferences, and goal change conferences focusing on children's safety and well-being
• Implement conference facilitation model with ACS single protocol across the child welfare continuum to ensure shared lens of safety, permanency, well-being, stability, and equity are consistently aligned
• Engage with birth parents, foster parents, youth, case planning staff, advocates, and others using motivational interviewing techniques while assessing for safety and risk factors for children currently in care and in planning for permanency
• Utilize crisis intervention skills to de-escalate conflicts in a trauma-informed approach
• Send out electronic and paper invitations to all participants and document in Connections
• Maintain access to Connections and document the Service Plan Review within the timeframe as required by New York State, ACS, and NYF compliance guidelines
• Provide copies of FTC plan to all conference attendees at the end of each conference
• Conduct 2–3 conferences daily consisting of FASP-driven permanency FTCs, critical case conferences, including final discharges and certain goal change conferences
• Alert management team immediately when a safety concern is raised at an FTC
• Collaborate with ACS by attending FTC regional debriefing meetings and site visits, as well as NYF regional meetings

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human/Social Service related field (including education, psychology, social work, or a related subject area)
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in child welfare, social services, or a related field and a desire to work with children and families
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation, and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment
• Ability to receive and execute feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes
• Ability to manage stress, self-care, and maintain a high level of self-awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree from a U.S. accredited educational institution or Credential Evaluation for a non-U.S. educational institution required.

Pay

Salary range: $55,729.08+ (Bilingual additive $3,500+; Education additive $3,800)