Organization:
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 mentors, resource coordination, and additional specialized training courses. The program engages adoptive, kinship, guardianship, and biological families working on reunification or prevention in these supportive services to maintain permanency stability.
This program was developed with TBRI® serving as its theoretical cornerstone from which to serve this population. Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (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 Family Support Program Director, Family Support Coordinators will provide supportive services to families via phone, email, and virtual and in-person meetings.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
- Provide assistance, information and resources via phone and email to potential adoptive families and post-permanency families in the community
- Data entry and reporting regarding supportive services and resources provided to families
- Build relationships with community resources including but not limited to county agencies, private agencies, non-profits, and youth/family development programs.
- Support and coordinate with TBRI® Family Support Practitioners with resource coordination & 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.
- Conduct the TBRI® Caregiver Training, as requested (weekends and/or evenings may be required)
- Provide resources and support for in-home coaching, therapeutic services, and youth mentoring.
- Maintain and regularly update the Lending Library and Resource Database.
- Opportunities to provide mentoring for youth in home & out of home consistent with TBRI® principles and the Camp Buddy model. Collaborate with TBRI® Family Support Practitioners and other mentors for support as needed.
- Ensure groups are staffed appropriately and support facilitation of the children’s portion of the groups.
- Travel to meetings, sessions, groups, events, or trainings with families, professionals, and in the community as assigned
- Marketing and community outreach, including but not limited to class marketing, exhibit tables, networking with mental health professionals, social media posts, monthly newsletters, support group visits and print publications.
- Event planning coordination including but not limited to training course and conference planning and coordination, communication with trainers, venues and class preparation.
- Public events including but not limited to presenting training or information at conferences and support groups, hosting exhibit tables, and other venues
- Support internal communication about the program with the Director and Program Manager.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to effectively build rapport with families
- Demonstrate effective organization skills and proactive thinking
- Demonstrate diplomacy and networking skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously as needed in a hybrid work environment
- 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
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft, Word, Excel, Social Media platforms, Zoom and various database applications
Desired Qualities:
- Social Services Worker (S.S.W.) License
- Adoptive Parent
- Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
- Two or more years of experience in adoption, child welfare or equivalent
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.