Family Service Case Manager
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About The Position
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI), is a leading not-for-profit organization providing healing, justice and wholeness to people and communities. For over 150 years, LSSI has made a difference in the lives of children and families, and we're still a strong, viable presence in the State of Illinois, continuing that commitment to making a difference. LSSI is hiring a full-time Family Findings Specialist, Monday through Friday. Will include specifically reaching out to potential families who are most likely to meet the needs for the specific youth, including but not limited to, attending, and participating in community events throughout the area. Will do extensive research, investigation, and outreach in locating absentee parents/guardians. Identify and locate potential extended family/fictive kinship relationships. Will assist the family caseworker with facilitating the expansion of resources needed to better serve children and their families involved in foster care. Serves as a team member within the multidisciplinary team or Child and Family Team Meeting consisting of case manager, supervisor, foster parent, birth parents and youth to facilitate connections between newly found family/fictive kin members, supports, and other collateral resources to resolve complex and stalled cases to improve permanency outcomes.
