Description
Provide case management and social services to strengthen family functioning, ensure child safety and well-being, and support permanency. Conduct assessments, develop service and safety plans, connect families to community resources, and monitor progress. May arrange and oversee foster, kinship, or adoptive placements and assist with reunification. Collaborate with courts, schools, healthcare, and community partners and may provide testimony and advocacy.
- • Interview and assess families to evaluate needs, strengths, and risks.
- • Conduct home visits to observe child safety and family functioning.
- • Develop individualized service and safety plans with measurable goals.
- • Provide short-term counseling, parent coaching, and skill-building.
- • Coordinate and monitor services such as housing, child care, healthcare, mental health, substance use treatment, and employment support.
- • Refer clients to community resources and guide them through applications and eligibility.
- • Determine eligibility for agency programs and financial assistance.
- • Maintain accurate case records, documentation, and required reports.
- • Arrange and track medical, psychological, and developmental evaluations.
- • Address child abuse or neglect concerns in partnership with protective services.
- • Prepare court summaries and provide testimony for custody, visitation, or permanency hearings.
- • Facilitate family team meetings and interagency case conferences.
- • Serve as liaison among families, schools, courts, healthcare providers, and community agencies.
- • Recruit, evaluate, and support foster, kinship, or adoptive caregivers; complete home studies.
- • Place children in foster or kinship care and coordinate visitation and reunification services.
- • Monitor placement stability and provide training and guidance to caregivers.
- • Conduct follow-ups and reassessments; adjust plans based on progress and outcomes.
- • Lead or coordinate parenting classes and support groups.
- • Participate in community outreach and resource development to expand service options.
- • Assist with program evaluation, data tracking, and quality improvement activities.
- • Supervise or mentor interns and paraprofessional staff as assigned.
- • Provide crisis intervention and participate in after-hours or emergency response rotations.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
