Foster Care Case Manager

StepStone Family & Youth Services•Tifton, GA

12d•$43,888•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 youth and foster families through therapeutic case management, service coordination, and individualized support that promotes safety, stability, permanency, and positive outcomes. 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 understands the impact of trauma, loss, and disrupted family systems and is committed to helping youth and families build resilience and long term success. The Foster Care Case Manager works closely with foster families, biological families, treatment teams, schools, and community providers to support placement stability, emotional wellbeing, and coordinated care for youth in foster care placements. Through ongoing communication, advocacy, and service planning, this position helps ensure youth and families receive responsive and supportive services tailored to their unique needs. The ideal candidate is organized, adaptable, empathetic, and committed to delivering high quality services while maintaining professionalism, compliance, and a trauma informed approach throughout all aspects of service delivery.

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
Capable of working with children, parents, foster parents, client agencies and the courts
Creative, pragmatic, assertive
Know 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
Making decisions regarding the placement and treatment of neglected, abused, disturbed, and medically complex children
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 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