FTR Case Planner
About the role
Forestdale is a child welfare agency working to enhance family well-being and prevent child maltreatment through parenting, prevention, and foster care services for families in Queens and Brooklyn. We help thousands of families work through complex trauma, raise the next amazing generation of children, and youth successfully launch into adulthood. Forestdale’s mission is “to ensure that children and families have the fundamental assets they need to thrive and live independently.”
Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Case Planner is responsible for working with families who are experiencing circumstances that threaten the safety and well-being of their children. Families that referred to the Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program are currently experiencing mental health and/or substance abuse issues which place the children at risk. These identified family member can be either the parents and/or the child. The role of the Family Support Case Planner is to work with families to support, help strengthen and promote healthy growth and development within the family.
Responsibilities
- Visit families in their homes, communities or at the agency as indicated by the Phase of Treatment –Initial, Baseline or Stabilization. The visits ranges from a minimum of 3 times per week (Initial Phase of Treatment); or 1 time per week (Baseline Phase of Treatment); or two times a month (Stabilization Phase of Treatment).
- Provide individual, family and group counseling, as needed.
- Advocate for clients in their effort to secure services, such as public assistance, health insurance and immigration issues.
- Coordinate and maintain contact with workers at the Administration for Children’s Services
- Maintain contact with schools, mental health facilities/therapist and any other service providers.
- Participate in Clinical Diagnostic Team Meetings, staff meetings, in