• Opportunities to use your administrative skills to create a positive impact in the lives of children and families
• Opportunities to work alongside talented Child Welfare professionals, providing the opportunity to learn and grow in the field of child welfare and non-profit business
• Excellent benefits including low-cost, high coverage health insurance, competitive time-off benefits, retirement, public servant student loan forgiveness, and MORE!

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  Conduct home visits to Kinship Caregivers;
• Educate Kinship Caregivers about available resources to meet the needs of the children they are raising, in addition to their own needs as caregivers;
• Provide enrollment information for federal, state, and local benefits;
• Provide relevant training to assist kinship caregivers in care-giving;
• Assist with navigating legal options available for child custody, other legal assistance, and help in obtaining legal services;
• Provide outreach to Kinship Caregivers, including distributing relevant guides or outreach materials;
• Foster and maintain collaborative working relationships and rapport with Kinship Caregivers;
• Advocate and liaison with Kinship Caregivers to ensure adequate supports are provided and to facilitate positive outcomes for children served;
• Advocate for the needs of Kinship Caregivers by ensuring their voice is heard and that their needs are being addressed.
• Attend and participate in staffings to identify needed supports and services;
• Enter data into the Statewide Child Welfare Information System FSFN;
• Other duties as required.

• Required: High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work/Human Services or a related field.
• Knowledge in Florida's Practice Model and Florida’s official electronic system of record, Florida Safe Family Network (FSFN).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

• One year of kinship or child welfare caregiver experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills relative to diverse populations..
• Excellent skills in, facilitation, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing deadlines.
• Analytical, decision making, and organizational skills.

About Communities Connected for Kids

Communities Connected for Kids provides oversight and coordination of the child-welfare system in Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee and St. Lucie counties. At any given time, there are about 1,300 abused, abandoned or neglected children in our care. We are responsible for the safety and well-being of each one of them. We meet this responsibility through a mix of direct and contracted services. If you think about it in terms of building a house, we are the general contractor of the child-welfare system. The system is the house, we are the contractor, and our network of service providers are the subcontractors we pull together to make the house strong and ready to live in.

Who We Serve

Communities Connected for Kids offers a full range of care for children, adolescents, young adults and family members in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast. We offer our services through a wide variety of approaches including in-home parenting and prevention services, family preservation, case management, residential programs and extended foster care services for teenagers and young adults.

In the tradition of true partnership, Communities Connected for Kids works closely with several agencies that are funded through Medicaid, substance abuse/mental health or private funds to offer a continuum of treatment services otherwise unfunded by Community Based Care dollars. These partnerships help families strengthen their capacity to care for their children or help children heal from trauma they’ve experienced.

Mission

Our mission is to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of all children in Okeechobee and the Treasure Coast through a community network of family support services.

• Individualized, based on the strengths and needs of the families we serve
• Respectful and culturally sensitive
• Effective and accountable
• Evidence based and data driven
• Permanency focused
• Ensure financial and human resources are managed and maximized

Our Vision

We envision a community without abuse, neglect and abandonment so all children grow to their full potential.