[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Tucson", "description": "We're recruitingfor aFULL-TIMEFOSTER CARE SPECIALIST (LICENSING)for ourprogram in Tucson. This position supports foster care providers in maintaining and delivering high quality foster care services to clients who have a wide range of social, emotional and behavioral complications. This position also provides on-site supervision, support and coordination of all program activities, which include administrative support, foster care provider development and training, staff supervision, referral coordination and placement. This position completes initial home evaluations, licenses, re-licenses and supervises foster care providers.Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:00pm (flexibility with hours).\n\nTheposition requires significant time spent in the field,as well as knowledge of computer skills, as the state foster care renewal system in online. The Specialist will spend a fair amount of time on the phone, assisting and supporting foster families as well as working with other entities involved with the children in the foster care system.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" />\n\nWhat does a typical day look like for a Foster Care Specialist?\n\n-Answering phone calls and emails from foster parents and caseworkers: Discussing how children are doing in the home and providing info to foster parent about available resources and/or providing information and expertise about how the school system, court system, or medical system works).Phone calls may also involve just listening to the foster parent discuss their experiences and providing support through empathy and/or giving positive feedback about how the foster parent is doing.All phone contacts are then documented into their case file.\n\n-Conducting home visits:Discussions will likely cover many of the same issues as what is discussed in phone calls.However, home visits also give the Specialist the opportunity to assess the home environment to ensure that it continues to be safe and stable (accomplished through general observations of the home, walk-through of the home to ensure that there are no safety hazards, observations of the foster parent and family dynamics, and talking with children who have been placed in the home).Paperwork is completed during each of these visits in which any concerns are noted and discussed with the foster parent and documented in their case file.\n\n-Preparing a foster parent's home study to submit to the state for review and approval:Mailing and collecting paperwork from the foster parents, updating family's home study each year with applicable information, which requires knowledge of the family and any changes that may have occurred within the family over the past licensing year.All of this information is formally documented in the state's online foster care licensing program.\n\n\nKeywords: licensing, foster care, child welfare, behavioral health, social work, family development, CPS, social services, mental health", "date_new": "2012-05-10 06:00:05", "url": "http://jobs.devereux.org/xml/28597809/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Devereux", "title": "Foster Care Specialist (Full-Time, Licensing)", "reqid": "IRC61075", "state": "Arizona", "state_short": "AZ", "location": "Tucson, AZ", "uid": 28597809}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Tucson", "description": "We're recruiting for a full-timeCOMMUNITY MARKETING & OUTREACHSPECIALISTbased out of our<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" />Tucsonoffice.As a member of the statewide Outreach and Marketing team, this position is responsible for direct outreach into the community for DevereuxArizona, in order to increase referrals for priority program areas and assist in fundraising and marketing efforts.This positionis alsoresponsible for:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" />\n- Directly engaging the community on behalf of DevereuxArizonaand its program.\n- Promoting the Devereux Arizona brand to targeted communities and ensures brand integrity is maintained.\n- Directly responsible for recruiting foster families for the various foster care programs.\n- Working closely with foster program management to recruit families to meet program needs.\nReports to: Community Marketing & Outreach Coordinator\nSchedule: Monday-Friday, plus weekends and nights as required\n\nKeywords: marketing, business development, community outreach, child welfare, behavioral health, social work, fundraising, development, public relations, communications", "date_new": "2012-04-21 06:00:05", "url": "http://jobs.devereux.org/xml/28055447/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Devereux", "title": "Community Marketing & Outreach Specialist", "reqid": "IRC59684", "state": "Arizona", "state_short": "AZ", "location": "Tucson, AZ", "uid": 28055447}]