Raise The Future serves waiting youth, recruits families for youth who have survived abuse and neglect, supports adoptive families throughout every phase of the adoption process, and trains child welfare professionals throughout the country.
Raise the Future operates offices in Utah, Colorado, and Nevada with additional programs in Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Raise the Future is also one of several collaborating partners within the federal AdoptUSKids project.
About the Utah Family Support Program
The program is focused on bringing family support services to the families raising youth that behavior and attachment needs. It incorporates TBRI® Caregiver Training sessions, personalized in-home family coaching, implementation and connection groups for families, TBRI®-trained youth mentoring, resource coordination, and additional specialized training courses. The program engages pre and post adoptive, kinship, guardianship, and biological families working on reunification or prevention in these supportive services to maintain post-permanency stability and prevent the entry of children into out-of-home placements.
This program was developed with Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) serving as its theoretical cornerstone from which to serve this population. TBRI® is a caregiving and intervention model developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University (TCU). TBRI® is based on a solid foundation of neuropsychological theory and research, tempered by humanitarian principles. It is a family-based intervention designed for children who have experienced relationship-based traumas such as institutionalization, multiple foster placements, maltreatment, and/or neglect.
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Family Support, the Family Support Practitioner will become a TBRI® Practitioner to act as a liaison between the recruitment team and family support services during the transition of a youth from foster care to a potential adoptive home. They will also deliver TBRI® classes, facilitate Implementation and Connection Groups to review elements of the TBRI® model, offer opportunities for participants to practice tools and discuss challenges, and build networks amongst families.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
- Offer services to all families referred by the recruitment team; follow-up with families as needed.
- Provide in-home coaching to caregivers who have completed TBRI® training. Each visit will involve observation, hands-on guidance, feedback, goal setting, and action planning. The number of visits and hours involved will vary based on each family’s needs (weekends and/or evenings may be required)
- Document family/youth assessment and progress
- Provide support and resources to families as needed.
- Plan and facilitate Implementation and Connection Groups for TBRI®-trained families to provide ongoing support, learning opportunities, and natural points of connection for families to develop support networks with other families who have a mutual understanding of their children’s needs and behaviors.
- Travel to meetings, visits, groups, events, or trainings with families, professionals, and in the community as assigned; mileage reimbursement is provided by Raise the Future.
- Support internal communication about the program, conduct data entry, attend meetings, submit required reports, perform other administrative tasks as needed
- Adhere to program and agency protocol and structure
- Submit paperwork in adherence with prescribed timelines
- Deliver the TBRI® Caregiver Training (including, but not limited to in Spanish), as requested (weekends and/or evenings may be required)
- Other duties as assigned
Required Education/Training/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field
- Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
- Demonstrated understanding of complex developmental trauma, trauma-associated behavioral and developmental delays, and challenges related to permanency achieved through guardianship or adoption
- Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends as needed
- Two or more years of experience in adoption, child welfare or equivalent
- Excellent observational and assessment skills
- Demonstrate the ability to train others
- Demonstrated ability to effectively build rapport with families and youth
- Demonstrate effective organization skills and proactive thinking
- Demonstrate diplomacy and networking skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously, as needed
- Travel and some evening or weekend work required; must have dependable transportation and be insurable as a driver on the auto liability policy of Raise the Future (mileage to be reimbursed by Raise the Future).
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft, Word, Excel, the internet, Zoom and various database applications
Desired Qualities:
- Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Human Development, or Human Services-related field
- Accredited through TCU Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development as a TBRI® Practitioner
- 5 or more years of postgraduate experience working with children and families
- Adoptive Parent
- Located in the region where services are to be delivered
Salary Range: $20.67 - 26.44
Raise The Future is an equal opportunity organization and employs personnel without regard to race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
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