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Licensing Specialist, Foster Homes

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Flint, MI (Unknown)Full time

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Licensing Specialist, Foster Homes

Samaritas

Flint, MI (Unknown)

In-houseFull-timeMid level
3 months ago
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Samaritas

Licensing Specialist, Foster Homes

Flint, MI (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end foster care recruitment and licensing workflow, ensuring compliant, adequately staffed homes, while building community ties and promoting awareness, and delivering ongoing training and case oversight to foster families.

  • Foster care recruitment and licensing: plan, execute, and monitor home studies, license actions, and related investigations.
  • Community engagement: cultivate relationships with religious and community groups and circulate promotional materials to boost awareness and placements.
  • Training and oversight: conduct orientations, provide ongoing training, handle investigations, and track recruitment outcomes.

Job Description

  • Coordinates and participates in the recruitment, training, licensing, and investigation activities of foster care homes for children and families in the community assigned, in accordance with all applicable contractual and regulatory requirements and accreditation standards.
  • Devise, implement and evaluate strategies and recruitment plan to assure adequate foster homes in accordance with program, organization and contractual requirements and standards.
  • Develop and maintain current contact file with recruitment sources, prospective foster home data files and mailing lists.
  • Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with religious/community groups and key individuals to increase their awareness of the need for foster parents, and organization services.
  • In coordination with communications and planning department, develop and circulate promotional materials. Make regular press releases to public media sources and presentations when requested to promote foster care awareness and recruitment under the direction of the director.
  • Plan and conduct regular orientation meetings and pre-service training with prospective foster parents.
  • Complete original home study for all new foster parent applicants.
  • Complete annual and renewal license assessments, and all licensing actions related to changes in foster home within prescribed timeframes.
  • Complete investigations of all complaints against foster families in a thorough and timely manner; provide written reports to appropriate parties and regulatory agencies.
  • Provide on-going training and consultation for foster parents.
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Samaritas

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For almost 90 years, Samaritas has served others as an expression of the love of Christ with programs to help Michigan’s disadvantaged families, and individuals thrive. Samaritas is the state’s largest foster care and adoption organization, with a full suite of family preservation programs and options like Substance Use Disorder (SUD) services to keep families together. We are one of the largest providers of refugee services, resettling families from all over the world. We provide senior care and living communities with a full continuum of services, including independent and assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing options within a faith-based family community. Samaritas is all about home, offering housing solutions for adults with developmental disabilities, homeless families, and affordable living communities for those who qualify for HUD housing.

Founded in 1934
Detroit, Michigan, USA
779 employees
www.samaritas.org
52% recommend to a friend
30% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.9%
Direct
48%
Referral
6.1%
Social
10.6%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~779

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