Coach- Fair Futures

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.

A Coach provides home-based case management services to up to 12 families. Coaches utilize Mobility Mententoring, an evidence-informed model to address families needs and connect families with resources to reduce safety and risk factors and keep families together.

1. Provide home based or community case management services to families utilizing the Mobility Mentoring model to a caseload of up to 12 families, visiting families at minimum twice a month to address family needs, decrease risk and safety factors and strengthen families overall health and wellness.

2. Engage primary caregivers and other key participants throughout treatment to engage in sessions and conferences and overcome barriers to engagement when they arise to ensure successful goal attainment. 

3. Complete timely and accurate documentation of session progress and collateral notes, Family Assessment Service Plan (FASP), Bridges to Self- Sufficiency, Income Assessment, and Goal Action Plans in all databases that includes Evolv, Connections, and Promis to support treatment fidelity, tracking, and planning. 

4. Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues, community providers and model/external stakeholders to connect families to resources and support ongoing treatment communication and collaboration for effective treatment planning. 

5. Cotinuously assess for families safety, addressing crises, completing safety plans and incident reports in a timely manner as necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of all families served by the program with an emphasis on decreasing system involvement (could include after hour/on call support).

6. Conduct intake thorough the completion of initial assessments and gather essential consent forms for new cases, ensuring timely case openings, completeness of information and family understanding of services to achieve a smooth start to treatment. 

7. Participate in group, individual supervisions, trainings, all staff meetings and community outreach events to stregthen professional development, skill growith, group cohesion and community visibility.

8. Provide case coverage for peers, as needed, to ensure consistent clinical support within the team.

Bachelor's in Social Work, Sociology or Psychology

• Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.
• Must have 2 years of relevent experience in child welfare, social services, or a related field and a desire to work with children and families.
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. Proven self-management abilities including meeting deadlines, prioritizing multiple tasks efficiently, timely completion of documentation and maintaining accurate and up-to-date case records.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse, multidisciplinary team and connect with a diverse client population to engage them in services throughout treatment.
• Ability to receive and execute feedback to professionally grow and/or improve and be flexible with programmatic needs and changes. Ability to manage stress, self-care and maintain a high level of self-awareness.
• An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requirement to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child).
• Must be comfortable and able to travel and visit families in their homes and perform safety assessments.
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  $52,350-$59, 830/Salary 
  
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