What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Resource Specialist position at Brightpoint?
Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.
The Family Resource Specialist is a critical member of the Youth Services team, providing community and home-based crisis intervention, conflict resolution, and comprehensive case management services for a caseload of clients or as supplemental services to clients being served by a Youth Services Family Counselor. As a Family Resource Specialist, you will facilitate family-arranged placements for youth, provide psychoeducation services, and refer youth and families for other services in order to preserve/reunite the family and prevent placement of the youth in the state child welfare or juvenile justice system. Family Resource Specialists also participate in an on-call rotation, which may include providing after-hours crisis intervention.
Candidate qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in social work or another human service field required.
- Valid driver's license, insurance, and a reliable vehicle required.
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- Experience working with youth and families preferred.
- Effective listening and trust-focused relationship-building skills required.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
Job details:
- Compensation: Range starts at $20.45/hr; offers are commensurate with experience
- Benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, 3 weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure); 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here).
- Location: Family Resource Specialists provide in-home and community-based services. Your home office will be out of our Granite City office.
- Schedule: Full-time, hourly; general business hours with flexibility for evening appointments to accommodate clients’ schedules. Position requires participation in after-hours on-call crisis rotation.
- Student Loan Forgiveness: Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
Where you work matters.
We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.)
We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.
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Children’s Home & Aid is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action.
All employment activities are conducted in an equal and equitable fashion. The Agency prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, veteran status, source of income, and any other legally protected category in the recruitment, selection, hiring, determination of salary level and benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.
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