About This Role
This professional social services role involves providing case management services to children, youth, and families, ensuring the health and safety of each child while assisting families in achieving better social, economic, emotional, or physical adjustment. The work includes assessing family needs, developing service plans, and linking families to necessary resources.
Responsibilities
- Provide case management services to children, youth, and families
- Assess presenting problems, strengths, and needs of families
- Assist families in developing and using their own potential for resolving social, health, emotional, and economic problems
- Provide social services such as home and budget management, housing, child care, parenting skills, and employment
- Arrange placement of children in foster or adoptive homes, residential facilities, or institutions when necessary
- Schedule and conduct interviews and follow-up visits to provide service and counseling
- Prepare social studies, case summaries, reports, and correspondence
- Prepare documents and provide testimony in court under supervision
- Make referrals to public and private social service organizations and community agencies
- Assist children, youth, and their families in understanding and utilizing community resources
- Develop a specific written service plan for each family member with family input whenever possible
- Link families to services to meet service plan requirements through prompt authorization and referral
- Attend and participate in case reviews and supervisory conferences
- Participate in formal and informal county agency and state training programs
- Learn about the network of available community resources by reviewing resource files, making site visits, and working with casework staff
- Receive instruction regarding the reason for and proper completion of applicable forms and paperwork
- Document activities and services using designated agency methods and procedures, including social service summaries, correspondence, and reports
- Conduct child abuse investigations and complete required paperwork within 60 days in accordance with all CPSL regulations (for CPS Investigations/ICU units)
- Attend, participate in, and present cases (when required) at Child Advocacy Center Case Conferences (for CPS Investigations/ICU units)
- Conduct minimal facts interviews of juveniles in a manner that does not taint the investigation (for CPS Investigations/ICU units)
- Conduct perpetrator interviews of suspected juvenile and adult offenders (for CPS Investigations/ICU units)
- Attend trainings specific to physical abuse, sexual abuse, and interviewing techniques, as recommended by the supervisor or administrator (for CPS Investigations/ICU units)
