Foster Home Resource Specialist

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition assistance
• Vision insurance

Northeast Center for Youth & Families, Inc. (NCYF)

Northeast Center for Youth & Families, Inc. (NCYF) is made up of a team of devoted and highly skilled professionals and paraprofessionals who provide quality care to the individuals we serve. Our agency is led by a passionate and involved leadership team based out of our Easthampton main office.

NCYF opened its doors in 1972 and became incorporated in 1976. We’re an experienced agency with multiple locations which provide foster care services, in home therapy, outpatient therapy, treatment residences, and therapeutic day programs. For nearly 50 years, we have been committed to providing innovative and high quality care to our consumers. Our mission is to empower individuals, children, adults and families to live healthy and successful lives. Our values include respect, integrity, compassion and hope. We encompass these values in everything we do.

NCYF Provides

• Paid training for all employees
• Competitive wages
• A dynamic work environment
• The following benefits:
• Medical/Dental Insurance
• Disability
• Group Term Life/Voluntary Life
• 401k Retirement
• Paid Holidays/Vacation/Personal/Sick time
• Whole Life, Critical Illness, Accident Insurance
• Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Member Discounts

Foster Home Resource Specialist

Northeast Center for Youth & Families, Inc. seeks a Foster Home Resource Specialist to recruit, screen, evaluate, and certify foster homes for consideration for our Easthampton area office. This individual will prepare applicants of the expectations and responsibilities of foster/adoptive parents as set forth in State, City, and Agency regulations, conduct in-depth interviews with household members regarding parenting capacities and personal background, and collect written collateral data such as employment and personal references. Other responsibilities include to conduct outreach recruitment efforts, maintain effective collaborative relationships with other foster youth serving agencies, and coordinate with case managers, clinicians and other staff regarding placement decisions. The position requires on-call duties as needed.

Foster Care Resource Specialist, $24.00 per hour

• Requirements include the following:
• Bachelor’s Degree; licensed (LCSW, LSW or LSWA) or license-eligible.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required certifications and licenses, including but not limited to CPR/First Aid.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general accounting and business periodicals, professional journals and reports, technical procedures and government regulations.
• Knowledgeable about office programs ie: word processing, spreadsheets, accounting programs, payroll systems and the like.
• Ability to reason and solve practical problems, deal with variety of concrete variables and interpret instructions furnished in various formats.

Compensation

$24.00 per hour

About NCYF

Since we first opened our doors over 40 years ago, NCYF has been committed to providing innovative, high-quality programs and services to children and their families. We have a long history of doing just that. We serve kids that other organizations won’t and offer a variety of programs to meet the wide-ranging needs of our clients. Our programs have been designed and developed to directly meet the needs of the children and families we serve; all of our staff are trained to provide care that is respectful of an individual’s trauma background, and our residential homes accept children and adolescents with the most difficult issues, not just those with less challenging problems.