Description:
The Transitional Living Services and Treatment Manager (TLS & Treatment Manager) manages a mixed caseload that include youth and young people, ages 14-21, which are aging out of the State foster care system. This position provides enrollment, assessment, transitional living planning, coordination of services and support services toward the purpose of assisting the youth in graduating high school, becoming employable and employed, securing a living situation, developing life skills, developing a support system and meeting other goals in the client’s plan. It is critical, given the large and scattered caseload, that the worker be successful in engaging caregivers to be or become involved in transitional planning and meeting the plan’s goals and in making the youth take personal responsibility for their own well-being. The TLS & Treatment Manager is responsible for managing family support services, mental health services, therapeutic foster care, adoptive support services, and guide homes for children ages 2 and up. This position provides assessment, placement and case management for youth in foster, adoptive, respite or guardianship services. The TLS & Treatment Manager facilitates the adjustment, positive growth, and development of the youth through a variety of services including family support, health, psychological, community, legal and educational. Foster/guardianship/kinship care and adoptive services are family based and parents are trained and supported to implement the goals and plan for each youth in care.