Foster Care Case Manager

StepStone Family & Youth Services • Brookhaven, GA

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About The Position

StepStone Family & Youth Services is seeking a compassionate, dedicated Foster Care Case Manager to support children, youth, and foster families through trauma-informed, strengths-based, and family-centered case management. The role promotes safety, stability, permanency, healing, and overall well-being through individualized planning, advocacy, service coordination, and placement support. The Case Manager collaborates with foster parents, biological families, schools, referral agencies, community providers, and multidisciplinary treatment teams to address each youth’s needs.

The Foster Care Case Manager works under the supervision of the Program Manager and delivers case management, individual and family counseling, and foster-family training and supervision. The role assists the Program Manager with individual treatment plans, maintains weekly contact with foster families, children, and biological families, monitors progress during placement, and supports foster-parent training, home studies, and evaluation. The position also uses standardized tools to assess social and emotional progress and prepares treatment plans and progress reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, counseling, or a related human services field.
• Two years of experience working with children and families.
• Good verbal and writing skills.
• Ability to work with children, parents, foster parents, client agencies, and courts.
• Ability to act independently when appropriate and seek advice when needed.
• Compassionate, organized, adaptable, and solutions-focused approach, with commitment to trauma-informed services.

Responsibilities

• Review referrals and match children with appropriate foster families.
• Place children in state-licensed or state-certified foster homes.
• Obtain required state and agency documentation for children in care.
• Provide weekly documented contact and conduct biweekly visits with children and foster homes.
• Visit each assigned child at least once per month away from the foster home.
• Prepare a treatment plan within 21 days of placement and update it quarterly thereafter.
• Prepare monthly progress reports for assigned children.
• Provide Independent Living training and monthly ILP progress reports for assigned clients.
• Provide reunification services to biological families when required by the treatment plan.
• Coordinate visits between children and biological parents, siblings, and relatives.
• Provide court-required supervised visits with parents, siblings, and relatives.
• Act as liaison with placing agencies, schools, and other community agencies.
• Attend court hearings and review hearings.
• Attend staff meetings and treatment-planning meetings as required.
• Conduct interviews, training, and home studies for prospective foster parents as needed.
• Attend conferences and seminars as required for annual training.
• Conduct or participate in two or more foster-parent support-group meetings each year.
• Maintain flexible working hours and work weekends or holidays as needed.
• Deliver case management services, individual and family counseling, and foster-family training and supervision.
• Assist the Program Manager in developing individual treatment plans for children and families.
• Maintain weekly contact with foster families, children, and biological families and monitor child and family progress throughout placement.
• Use standardized tools to measure social and emotional progress and outcomes.
• Make decisions regarding placement and treatment of neglected, abused, disturbed, and medically complex children.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time