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The Resource Parent Support Specialist provides a range of services to Turning Points foster and kinship resource parents to support placement stability and permanency, and to ensure ongoing compliance with home certification standards. They are part of the larger Turning Points Foster Care team responsible for developing and retaining high quality resource parents.

Supervises Family Finding Social Workers/Case Workers and is responsible for such staff providing high quality level services in compliance with DHS Standards and Turning Points for Children’s policies and practices. Reports to Family Finding Program Director.

This position targets certain populations and/or areas to locate, recruit, and screen applicants as potential resource parents and homes for children in need; including but not limited to applicants willing to take sibling groups, older youth, youth who identify with the LGBTQ population and/or youth with behavioral issues. They are continuously marketing Turning Points for Children and the role of a resource parent.

Turning Points for Children an affiliate of The Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) seeks a Case Manager with experience working with children and youth. An employee in this position performs a variety of referral, placement and/or adoptive functions related to services for children and youth. Work includes performing case management activities, assessing client and family needs, developing an appropriate service and/or treatment plan, developing group activities, providing on-going counseling and referral services and/or determining appropriate placement actions.