Foster Care Case Manager

BrightSpring Health Services • Indianapolis, IN

15h • Onsite

About The Position

StepStone Family & Youth Services provides trauma-informed, youth-centered services to children and families involved in foster care. The Foster Care Case Manager plays a vital role in supporting children, youth, and foster families through advocacy, service coordination, and individualized case management that promotes safety, permanency, stability, and overall well-being. We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Foster Care Case Manager who is passionate about supporting children and families through trauma-informed, strengths-based, and family-centered practices. This role is ideal for a professional who thrives on building meaningful relationships, advocating for youth, and collaborating with families and community partners to create lasting positive outcomes. The Foster Care Case Manager is responsible for coordinating and monitoring services, conducting regular home and client visits, developing individualized case plans, maintaining accurate documentation, and collaborating with foster parents, biological families, schools, healthcare providers, referral agencies, and multidisciplinary teams. This position ensures children receive the resources, support, and services needed to achieve stability while maintaining compliance with agency policies, licensing standards, and state regulations. The ideal candidate is organized, adaptable, empathetic, and solutions-focused, with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality, trauma-informed services that empower children and families while helping youth achieve safety, permanency, and lifelong success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field
• Two years’ experience working with children and families
• Good verbal and writing skills
• Capability of working with children, parents, foster parents, client agencies and the courts
• Creative, pragmatic, assertive, and knows when to act independently and when to seek the advice of others

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or related human services field and five years’ experience with a placing agency working with troubled children and families may be considered in lieu of a graduate degree.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of case management services
• Individual and family counseling
• Training and supervision of foster families
• Assisting the Program Manager in developing individual treatment plans for troubled children and their families
• Maintaining weekly contact with foster families, children, and bio-families
• Monitoring the progress of the child and family throughout the placement
• Assisting with training, home studies, and evaluation of foster parents
• Using standardized tools to measure social and emotional progress and outcomes
• Preparing written treatment plans and progress reports
• Reviewing referrals and matching children with appropriate foster families
• Placing children in state licensed or state certified foster homes
• Obtaining all state and agency required documentation for child in care
• Providing weekly documented contact and bi-weekly visits to child and foster home
• Visiting each assigned child at least once each month away from the foster home
• Preparing a treatment plan for the child within 21 days of placement and quarterly thereafter
• Preparing monthly progress reports for assigned children
• Providing Independent Living training and monthly ILP progress reports for assigned clients
• Providing reunification services to the biological families when required by treatment plan
• Coordinating visitation of children with biological parents, siblings, and relatives
• Providing supervised visits with parents, siblings, and relatives when required by court
• Acting as a liaison person with placing agencies, schools, and other community agencies
• Attending court hearings and review hearings
• Attending staff meetings and treatment planning meetings as required
• Completing interviews, training, and home studies on prospective foster parents as needed
• Attending conferences and seminars as required for annual training requirement
• Conducting/participating in two or more foster parent support group meetings each year

Benefits

• Foster care training
• Respite care
• Support services

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level