Family Finding Specialist

Job description

Position Details Join Our Team as a Family Finding Specialist ~ Do you have a bachelor's degree in a human services related field? How about experience working in child welfare or a related service setting? We have a newly-available job for you to consider! Our Family Finding and Engagement Specialist supports youth in foster care by engaging their biological family and community members in a supportive network of connections. This position will lead our foster care program in advocacy efforts for relative placements and/or relative engagement. This position discovers any lost family/kinship connections and engages them to form a lifelong network for the youth. The goal is to preserve a child's cultural, ethnic, and familial connections to provide support within a kinship system. It is the specialist's role to identify and nurture family strengths and build upon natural support networks to enhance the safety and well-being of children in our care. If you’re passionate about relationship-building, driven to solve challenges, and committed to creating positive outcomes for young people, we’d love to hear from you. Welcome to Samaritas Nation!: Samaritas is a Michigan-based human serv...