What You’ll Be Doing

• Manages an assigned caseload (fluctuates) of home studies and post release services (Level II) only.

• Complies with US and ORR policies, procedures, and mandated timeframes.

• Collaborates with care providers in verifying and assessing whether additional information may be necessary to determine successful sponsorship.

• Evaluates the prospective sponsor’s ability to provide appropriate care and a safe living environment for the child.

• Schedules and conducts interviews with care provider staff, children, and sponsors.

• Assesses, identifies, verifies, and makes recommendations in areas where additional support, resources, or information may be needed to meet a child’s needs and provisions of a safe environment.

• Maintains telephone contact and conducts virtual and in-person home visits with children and sponsors.

• Writes detailed and comprehensive home studies to assess risk, safety, and appropriate placement of children to their prospective sponsor.

• Completes Home Study reports and makes recommendations within the required timeframe.

• Utilizes trauma focused approaches and brief therapeutic techniques to work with children and their sponsor.

• Continues on-going case management services through assessments, planning, evaluating, facilitating, and providing psychoeducation to children and their sponsor.

• Maintains appropriate documentation, safeguards confidential records, and protects personally identifiable information according to program regulations.

• Identifies and reports concerns related to children and sponsors, life changing events and significant incidences to the program and ORR. Acts as a mandated reporter and reports abuse/neglect to child protective services.

• Participates in training, meetings, and maintains quality improvement initiatives as recommended.

• This role requires travel to conduct in person home study or post release service visits in surrounding locations in the United States. May include working evenings and weekends to meet required timeframes.

• Related duties as assigned and may be revised as needed to meet program needs.

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