Post Release Services Clinical Case Manager II

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.  In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
The Urban Strategies (US) National Home Study (HS)/Post Release Services (PRS) Provider Program provides a culturally competent, holistic approach to home studies and social services for children and their sponsor. US ensures that quality assessments are made and that sponsors are able to meet the needs of the children while providing a safe environment for them upon release from ORR custody. Identifying where additional support, resources and psychoeducational assistance would be needed, US would initiate meaningful connections between external agencies, partners, social service providers, children, and sponsors, as relationships and opportunities for families continues to be built. 

Role & Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The PRS Clinical Case Manager must have experience in trauma informed care, child welfare practices, and managing clinical cases.
• Must be skilled at writing professional, thorough assessments reports.
• PRS Case Manager will have knowledge of local social services, community outreach and experience working with diverse populations.
• Clinical Case Manager is knowledgeable in family preservation, kinship care, and has experience in connecting and collaborating with local resource providers in providing post release services for children and their sponsor.     
• ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:   
• Manages an assigned caseload (fluctuates) of post release services (Levels II) only.
• May assist in completing comprehensive home study reports to assess risk, safety, and appropriate placement of children.   
• Complies with US and ORR policies, procedures, and mandated timeframes.   
• Collaborates with care providers in verifying and assessing whether additional information may be necessary to determine successful sponsorship.   
• Evaluates the prospective sponsor’s ability to provide appropriate care and a safe living environment for the child.   
• Assesses, identifies, verifies, and makes recommendations in areas where additional support, resources, or information may be needed to meet a child’s needs and provisions of a safe environment. 
• Maintains telephone contact and conducts virtual and in-person home visits with children and sponsors.   
• Utilizes trauma focused approaches and brief therapeutic techniques to work with children and their sponsor.   
• Continues on-going clinical case management services through assessments, planning, evaluating, facilitating, and providing psychoeducation to children and their sponsor.   
• Maintains appropriate documentation, safeguards confidential records, and protects personally identifiable information according to program regulations.   
• Identifies and reports concerns related to children and sponsors, life changing events and significant incidences to the program manager and ORR.
• Acts as a mandated reporter and reports abuse/neglect to child protective services.   
• Participates in training, meetings, and maintains quality improvement initiatives as recommended.   
• This role requires travel to conduct in person home study and post release visits in surrounding locations in the United States.
• May include working evenings and weekends to meet required timeframes.   
• Related duties as assigned and may be revised as needed to meet program needs. 

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Must be skilled in writing professional, thorough assessment reports and experience working with immigrant populations and has provided trauma informed clinical interventions for youth.   
• Knowledge of