Family Services Specialist

About the role

The Division of Child Protection Services impacts children and families’ lives every day by assessing safety, providing intervention, and securing stability for children. If you are committed to helping children and families; have excellent customer service, communication, and problem-solving skills; and are dedicated to achieving positive outcomes for children and families, this may be an opportunity for you to make a difference in a child’s life.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments with families from diverse economic, educational, and cultural backgrounds alleged to have maltreated their children, including analysis of danger threats to children.
• Provide intervention services with families after a determination that conditions in the home threaten child safety.
• Provide ongoing safety management through out‑of‑home placement of a child or an in‑home safety plan when children remain in the home.
• Work with the court system, including testifying when children are placed in the custody of the state.
• Find foster and adoptive homes for children.
• Recommend placements.
• Monitor children placed in out‑of‑home care.
• Conduct case planning.
• Assess needs of resource families and provide support services