Cottage Parents - Family-Style Residential Homes

Job description

Are you and your spouse passionate about caring for disadvantage youth? Do you both have a heart for ministry and a love for children? We Need You! The Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches is seeking married couples to live and work with youth in one of our family-style residential homes. This is a full-time, permanent position that will be living on campus for 14 days. Then going off duty and off campus for 7 days. The combined annual salary is $74,880. Please note that each of you will need to apply individually. SUMMARY: While living on campus, and under the supervision of an assigned Unit Director, the Cottage Parents provide youth with a strong parental role model while implementing a professional family-style program that emphasizes skill acquisition and personal development and a safe and secure environment in which to grow and learn. The Cottage Parents teach and develop social skills, self-help skills, academic skills, and independent living skills; and fosters moral and spiritual development through a broad array of activities to youth in residence that typically have a background of low self-esteem, academic failure, and problem behavior. The Cottage Parents administer the day...