Bilingual Case Planner I

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

• To link and directly provide biological parents/discharge resources with clinical and case management services. 

• Case Planners will work closely and collaboratively with all support departments, and provide case work counseling to the child(ren), birth parents and foster parents to ensure permanency is achieved in a timely manner.   

• Monitors the overall adjustment of children in the foster home and alternative placements (hospitals, RTCs, RTFs etc.) and on trial discharge. 

• Manage caseload and provide regular home visits, supervise family visits and documentation in accordance with ACS/agency standards in CONNX and Evolve Electronic Record Systems. 

• Conduct activities and provide services that promotes each child(ren)/youth’s safety, optimal health, development and wellbeing.  

• Monitor child’s health, school performance and adjustment to foster home. 

• Provide stabilization to the foster children. 

• Prepare for and attend monthly treatment planning meetings , family team conferences  

• Schedule office visits, home visits and family and sibling visits. 

• Provide casework counseling to foster parents, adoptive parents and birth parents. 

• Prepare case documentation in a timely manner (i.e. progress notes, psycho socials, FASP’s, Permanency Hearing Reports.   

• Case Planner will participate in an evidence informed model and maintain fidelity to the model. 

• Attend all court/legal proceedings, TPRs, trials and extension of Placement. 

• Attend clinical meetings, case management meetings. 

• Interview and counsel pre-adoptive parents on adoption procedures and policies.   

• Valid New York State driver’s license is strongly preferred. 

• Transport clients when necessary. 

• The Case Planner will be available for emergencies on weeknights and weekends and carry an agency cell phone. 

• Provide coverage where necessary for cases assigned to colleagues on vacation.  

• Other duties as assigned by supervisor and/or director

The New York Foundling is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse employee population, the Foundling will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.