Adoption Specialist
Lutheran Child and Family Services
2021 - 2024
- Identify and remove barriers to the timely achievement of permanency through adoption and/or guardianship
- Successful and sustainable life-long connections and stability
- Support youth and family led strength building, positive development, pro-social life skill opportunities, behavior and medical adaptability, skills & empowerment
- Work in collaboration with a team of child welfare and multidisciplinary professionals to gather information for thorough assessment, recommendations, updates and evaluation for permanency achievements.
- Provides linkages between child welfare specialist, family and resource engagement specialists, licensing and other internal or external stakeholders to ensure an informed team on the permanency process
- Drafts social histories for children and families pursuing an adoption or guardianship permanency pathway
- Participates in relative, kin and other family searches to identify resources for adoptive and guardianship placement
- Complete adoption and guardianship subsidy writing, finalization, and post finalization paperwork and processes.
- Identifies and makes linkages to children and families regarding moves, grief, separation and loss issues related to adoption or guardianship
- Participate in regular supervision, mediation, problem resolution, and crisis response by effectively responding to parent, child, provider and other stakeholder concerns and demonstrating the ability to effectively manage crisis and difficult case situations
