Case Manager - Fatherhood Job at Brooklyn Community Services
Position: Case Manager
Program: Fatherhood
Reports to: Program Director
Work Location: 1835 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, NY 11233
Hours: Full-Time
Salary: $40,000 to $43,000
Brooklyn Community Services is one of Brooklyn’s first and largest non-sectarian social services agencies. Serving more than 20,000 individuals annually, BCS is committed to a broad and diverse range of services including prevention of foster care placement; crisis intervention; early childhood and after school education; and vocational training, job placement, and clinical services to adults with physical and developmental disabilities, and histories of mental illness.
About:
The Fatherhood Initiative will provide young and older non-custodial fathers opportunities to interact through joint participation in parenting skills workshops, support groups, and special events with their children. Programs will also assist fathers, including those with prior involvement in the criminal justice system with achieving employment and educational goals and will integrate aspects of conflict management, violence prevention and other support services to support fathers with resolving issues and obtaining economic security.
Case Manager:
Responsibilities:
Responsible for participant recruitment and retention
Facilitate group workshops
Conduct outreach (with CBO’s and throughout the community) to identify appropriate Fatherhood Initiative participants.
Meet with potential enrollees individually and in groups
Track attendance/participation levels and following up with participants begin to disengage to encourage their continued participation.
Provide at least 3 months follow-up support after participants complete or exit the program. This includes meeting with program graduates and their families, employers or other support network to assist them in achieving their personal goals and strengthening family engagement; identifying/addressing challenges for graduates during follow-up period; working with other providers to establish/maintain linkages; assisting
Fatherhood Initiative case management team members in facilitating job/internship placements and service linkages;
Document and report on follow-up services and the results there of
Other tasks may be required.
Qualifications:
BA/BS degree, AA degree and/or certified trained peer credential required, with experience (including lived experience providing support services to youth/adults, sensitivity to the needs of participants and program graduates; solid communications skills).
BCS and Turning Point require that all employees entering the workplace be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless an exemption is granted as a medical or religious accommodation.
BCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities
How to apply:
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