Foster Care & Adoption Case Manager

The Foster Care and Adoption Case Manager promotes the well-being of children in our Child Placing Agency by managing a caseload of foster children and foster homes and coordinating with staff from other agencies involved in providing foster care services.

Key Expectations/Responsibilities:

• Utilize, practice, and maintain evidence-informed TBRI that incorporates trauma-informed care specifically for children who have been victims of abuse and/or neglect
• Ensure that the child or youth receives regular individual and family therapy by completing referrals and monitoring services
• Facilitate service planning team meetings in accordance with Treatment Model and needs of child or youth
• Ensure the CANS 3.0 Assessment is informing service delivery through utilization and implementation of appropriate services based on strengths and needs
• Serve as the youth’s advocate to ensure youth rights are upheld and goals are met
• Coordinate and participate in school enrollment, including advocating for, and ensuring various educational testing and plans are completed, and accommodations and/or supports are in place to aid in the child’s educational success
• Coordinate care for the child or youth and participate in STAR Health Service Coordination
• Advocate for and provide coordination of services through STAR Health, HHSC Behavioral Health Services, Early Childhood Intervention, and the education and child welfare systems
• Outreach to, engage, and collaborate with the child or youth, their biological parents, other relatives (including all siblings), potential Kinship (including fictive) Caregivers, adoptive Caregivers, and supportive persons in care coordination and Service Planning throughout the duration of the child’s placement
• Respond to crisis that may arise during assigned on-call rotation

Aftercare Case Management duties:

• Create Aftercare Services plan to include contact information for Star Health Service Coordinator and Child Placing Agency’s Aftercare Services case manager, referrals for continued services, Education Portfolio, initial appointments set and dates set for twice a month follow-call for six months
• Maintain documentation of all contacts or attempted contacts during the Aftercare Service period

For foster care services, the Case Manager is responsible for:

• Decision making on admitting a child for placement, including completion of an admission assessment and any other evaluation of a child for placement
• Placing a child into a foster home or other substitute living arrangement
• Managing the case of a child including:
• Developing and updating of service plans;
• Maintaining direct contact with the child and the foster parents or other caregivers; and
• Performing any additional case management activities, including conducting and documenting supervisory visits for compliance with §749.2815 Child Placing Agency Minimum Standards
• Orientation, assessment and verification of foster parents
• Monitoring and providing support services to foster parents, including the initiation of development plans corrective actions and adverse actions
• Supporting Foster Family Home Caregivers in offering logistical support, transportation coordination, and documentation/record keeping of services in accordance with court orders and Service Plan
• Working with Foster Family Caregivers to support Normalcy activities to include, but not limited to, clothing, hygiene products, hair care, birthdays, holidays, graduations, and other Normalcy activities that are age appropriate and in accordance with the Service Plan

For adoption services, the Case Manager will be responsible for:

• Deciding whether to admit a child for placement
• Placing a child into an adoptive home
• Managing the case of a child including:
• Developing and updating plans of service
• Maintaining direct contact with the child and the adoptive parents or other care givers
• Case management and service delivery to birth parents
• Orientation, assessment and approval of adoptive parents