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Family Services Caseworker Trainee; Adult/Family Services
Career Insights for Family / School / General Social Worker
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What they do
A Family, School, or General Social Worker provides specialized assistance to vulnerable families and children. Intervenes in crisis situations; evaluates individual and family needs, helps clients get access to health care, mental health care or social services such as housing assistance. Advocates for clients and provides follow up visits. May work with teachers, parents and school administrators to help students improve academically and deal with social issues such as bullying.
$69,997 / year median in Maryland
+11% projected growth
Job Description
Job Duties:
- Maintain at least monthly contact with each child in his/her foster/adoptive placement. Explore issues of separation and loss and becoming part of an adoptive family through development of a Life Book and individual counseling with the child. At all times, the incumbent will provide customer services to both internal and external customs that meets or exceeds the standards set by the Department.
- Complete case plans and complete reconsiderations timely for each child as required by state policy and regulation.
- Provide services to birth parents that are both court ordered and needs assessment driven. Schedule and supervise visits with both parents and siblings per court order and/or agency policy. Inform both parents regarding all Termination of Parental Rights matters and attempt to get their assistance in providing family medical history and other important birth family information.
- Prepare for TPR Hearings by collecting records, meeting with agency attorney and reviewing all available information in order to present pertinent testimony. Compile all documents needed for filing of the adoption petition. Negotiate and prepare initial adoption subsidy prior to finalization.
- Prepare comprehensive written social summaries of children to present to prospective adoptive families, which contain full disclosure of known information regarding the child and birth family. Locate an appropriate adoptive resource for each child by completing and submitting applications, and/or child profile to Resource Homes Unit, AdoptUSkids and other local agencies.
- Provides mass care and sheltering to surviving persons following a disaster affecting residents of Anne Arundel County and the State of Maryland, when necessary.