• By knowledge oversight of child development and appropriate referrals.
• By assessing the needs of biological parents, making appropriate service referrals, and monitoring the effectiveness of these services.
• By close liaison with ACS and the Courts.

• Develops and sustains ongoing working relationships with the child, foster family, and natural family through the regularly scheduled home, school, service provider, and office visits and interviews to accomplish permanency.
• Maintain a complete case record for each client, which documents progress through admission, under care, and discharge: prepares and submits dictation, memoranda, referrals, and reports on each case on a timely basis.
• Ensures full and timely written and verbal communication with ACS on all case aspects and developments.
• Represents Graham-Windham and testifies if required, in any court hearing related to caseload, including 358A’s, neglect 392’s, extensions of placement, and termination proceedings.
• Attends weekly supervision meetings to report on cases and presents for discussion any problems, difficulties, or unresolved issues.
• Participates in staff meetings, seminars, and training: maintains and applies current knowledge of internal and external regulations and policies to applicable Foster Care.
• Respond to client emergencies within or outside work hours.
• Other duties as required.

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in social service or a related field.
• Bi-lingual Spanish.
• Detailed-oriented.
• Ability to function as a team player and possesses a demonstrated passion for advancing the work of serving children and families.
• Must be able to travel within the NYC Metropolitan area; have excellent verbal and written communication skills, flexibility, professionalism, time management, and organizational skills;
• Computer literate, MS Office.
• NYS Connections.
• Ability to work with diverse populations.

• The base pay range is $55,000/yr + Merit + Benefits.
• Medical Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• Dental Insurance.
• Pension plan.
• Holiday pay.

In full partnership with families & communities, Graham Windham strives to make a life-altering difference to children, youth and families affected by abuse, neglect and delinquency by providing each child we serve with a strong foundation for life: a safe, loving, permanent family and the opportunity and preparation to thrive in school and in the world. With over 400 full-time, part-time and On-call employees serving children and families in multiple programs throughout Westchester County, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem, Graham Windham provides an exciting & enriching work experience.Graham has pioneered programs for New York City’s children, families and communities for over 200 years.Today, Graham is one of New York City’s leading social services organizations, providing educational and social services to over 4,000 children, young people, and parents in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem.GRAHAM ‘s IMPACT: 2019 HIGHLIGHT-Graham served 4,128 children, young people, and parents across New York City.-99% of families in our prevention program, who were at risk of having children placed in foster care, remained intact six months after receiving family support services.*95 kids in foster care reunited with their families within one year and 25 were adopted.*Over 90% of children in foster care who were reunified with their families avoided re-entering foster care in the year after reunification.*92% of young people in the Graham SLAM education and career support program graduated from high school by age 21 (compared with 22% of young people across the New York City foster care system).*We helped to lead close to 100 stakeholders in successfully advocating for New York City to invest $10 million in an approach similar to Graham SLAM for young people across NYC through the Fair Futures campaign.