House Parents/Foster Care Group Home

About the role

GAP Ministries needs mature, compassionate houseparents with a heart for ministry. At GAP you will provide supervision, structure and assistance in meeting neglected children’s physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily supervision and mentorship to a group of 8 to 10 children/young adults living in the home.
• Work as a team with your husband/wife and your team to create a safe, nurturing environment for children who come from difficult backgrounds.
• Creatively teach basic life skills and Christian values through positive behavior responses and engagement with children, doing homework, cleaning house, doing community activities, etc. either as a family, or one-on-one, as the needs require.
• Initiate and follow a daily schedule to create structure and stability for the children.
• Collaborate with team members on community activities, as families.
• Complete many of the daily tasks you might take care of in your own home, from meal prep and laundry to transportation and housework to homework to modeling to children a healthy family and clean, welcoming home.
• Initiate and follow a daily schedule to create structure and stability for the children.
• Collaborate with team members on community activities, as families.

Qualifications

• Experience working or volunteering with youth.
• Be physically fit to keep up with the children, home, and paperwork!
• Be self-aware so you are emotionally able to display warmth and able to enjoy and be comfortable with active, occasionally frustrated, and disorganized children.
• Comfortable navigating computer and smart phone applications.
• Willing to engage in our community and participate in outings, trainings, and staff activities.
• Embrace and exhibit GAP Ministries' mission and core values and love our children placed under your mentorship and care.
• Flexible and have a great sense of humor in the worst of situations!

Benefits

• We pay for your:
• FBI fingerprint clearance check and card.
• Medical and Mental Health physicals and Drug screen.
• Bi-Annual CPR, AED & First Aid Certification.
• Annual De-Escalation Certification.
• We pay you during training.
• You will live in our homes with minimal maintenance requirements and NO utility expenses.
• We clothe you in GAP apparel – well, at least one t-shirt.
• Accrue up to 40 hours of Paid Sick Leave annually to use as you want.
• Vouchers to shop our Community Warehouse and Treasures & More resale store.
• COSTCO Warehouse Gold Membership

Pay

• $80,000 annually per couple (IE: $40,000 annually per person) based on a 48 hour work week (3-days at 16 hours/day).
• Out of State relocation assistance bonus is negotiable.
• After experience with our team there is a possibility to move to 4 days a week for $50,000 annually per person.

Schedule

• 3 days on with 4 days off weekly, you must work weekends so you can enjoy family time and church attendance.
• You’ll also receive seventeen days of paid leave just in the first year.

Qualifications Needed for Live-In Houseparents

• To be at least 22 years old in order to drive your home’s 15 passenger van.
• Provide at least a high school diploma or equivalency diploma (GED), and one year experience in working with children or related role.
• Successfully pass FBI and interstate criminal history background checks.
• Possess a valid driver license and a good 5-year driving record to drive 15 passenger van.
• Staff children must have proof of current immunizations at all times.
• Have manual dexterity; auditory and visual skills and be able to perform various physical tasks.
• Be willing to learn our ways and love your children.

Other Information

• Pets are considered on an individual basis; determined by contract client (Arizona DCS) and if appropriate house is available.

About GAP Ministries

GAP Ministries, a faith-based ministry standing in the GAP for those in need in three core areas: Children, Family, and Community. GAP has been serving Southern Arizona since 1999.

• CHILDREN - GAP Ministries began by caring for foster children in the home of our founders, and that aspect of the ministry has grown over the years, depending on the need, from 9-14 family model group homes where the love of God is shared with the children and teens each day. GAP also licenses and trains individuals and couples to care for foster children to increase the number of homes where these children can live and thrive while away from their own family.
• FAMILY - Children are at the heart of GAP, but if we continually care for abused and neglected children but never help their families, it becomes a never-ending cycle. If we can begin to heal these families we can change the direction of their lives and generationally impact them going forward. To heal the root causes of the foster care crisis, GAP has programs to provide supervised visitation and parent aid for the birth parents. It is our desire and goal to see healthy restoration of families when possible
• COMMUNITY - Breaking cycles of poverty and creating transformed communities. Tucson is a beautiful city, but unfortunately there are many children, women, and men who are really struggling. One in four of our residents are below the poverty line. GAP's Community Warehouse reclaims food and new items from major retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills, and redistributes them to individuals in need through nonprofit partnerships.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.