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Family Team Conference Facilitator
Family Foster Care or Treatment Family Foster Care
Monday-Friday, 9a-5pm, Fulltime - 35 hours weekly
Basic Function of Position : Promote permanency for children and youth in foster care by facilitating family participation in and bringing an independent perspective to service plan reviews.
Support and promote strengths-based casework through the Family Team Conference model.
Responsibilities :
- Convene and facilitate family team conferences, including comprehensive and reassessment planning Service planning conferences, Goal Changes, Placement preservation / changes, step-ups to therapeutic care)
- Responsible for submitting Family team conference requests to ACS and following up with program staff when appropriate.
- Follow Family Team Conference schedules and communicate with appropriate ACS and program staff.
- Promote and monitor permanency planning during all FTC’s in accordance with federally mandated timeframes.
- Will attend ACS Transitional conference and create and update Genograms.
- Prepare and distribute monthly reports on Permanency FTC / SPRs and on Transitional conferences.
- The Facilitator will participate in making quality decisions revolving around child safety, well- being and permanency and making recommendations to case planners, supervisor and other service providers, including referrals and potential resources.
- Collaborate and strengthen partnerships with community representatives to ensure participation and involvement in conferences.
- Complete administrative responsibilities, including the timely documentation and data entry of family team conferences in CONNECTIONS to meet required due dates.
- Facilitate up to three conferences per day
- l agency policies, procedures and governmental regulations, including but not limited to HIPAA.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with all agency policies, procedures and governmental regulations, including but not limited to HIPAA.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
30+ days ago