*This is a part-time position.
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 post-permanency stability and prevent the entry of children into out-of-home placements.
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, TBRI® Family Coaches will become TBRI® Practitioners to deliver TBRI® classes, conduct in-home coaching services for families, and facilitate Connection Groups to review elements of the TBRI® model, offer opportunities for participants to practice tools and discuss challenges, and build networks amongst post-permanency families.
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
Provide in-home coaching for referred families who have completed TBRI® training. Each visit will involve observation, hands-on guidance, feedback, goal setting, and action planning. The number of visits and hours involved will vary based on each family's needs (weekends and/or evenings are required)
Document family assessment and progress
Provide support for families as needed
Plan and facilitate “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.
Travel to meetings, sessions, groups, events, or trainings with families, professionals, and in the community as assigned
Support internal communication about the program, 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
Conduct the TBRI® Caregiver Training, as requested (weekends and/or evenings may be required)
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
Two or more years of experience in adoption, child welfare or equivalent
Excellent observational and assessment skills
Demonstrate the ability to train others
Demonstrated ability to effectively build rapport with families and children
Demonstrate effective organization skills and proactive thinking
Demonstrate diplomacy and networking skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work autonomously as needed
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, the internet, Zoom and various database applications
Desired Qualities:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Master's Degree in a social work, psychology, human development, or human services related field
Accredited through TCU Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development as a TBRI Practitioner
5 or more years post-graduate experience working with children and families
Adoptive Parent
Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
Located in region where services are to be delivered
BENEFITS
What We Offer As a nonprofit organization, we are mission driven, and our employees are highly engaged in the work they do. The best reward is when our efforts payoff and our youth find lasting connections with an adult. We offer a great culture and a full benefits package too. We value the need for work life balance offering four (4) weeks of PTO and 10+ paid holidays per year, plus much more-- ** that's 30 paid days off per year!** Our benefits include:
Salary Range: $20 - 24 / hour