Organization Overview: Sheltering Arms strengthens the education, wellbeing, and development of high-need children, adults, and families across the New York metro area. We serve nearly 20,000 people a year from the South Bronx to Far Rockaway. Through compassion, innovation, and partnership, we respond to our community’s greatest needs and enable individuals to reach the greatest heights of their potential. Joining our team is an opportunity to collaborate with hundreds of dedicated colleagues who represent diverse backgrounds and talents as we work together to make a measurable impact for our neighbors in need. Every role at Sheltering Arms brings with it new opportunities for advancement and development so that team members can achieve their professional goals while helping others reach for theirs.

About ORR: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is a program of the federal Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. ORR programs provide short term home based transitional foster care and residential services for unaccompanied minors who immigrate to the United States without a parent or guardian.

Job Summary: The case manager will provide quality case management services and support to a caseload of eight unaccompanied children in Sheltering Arms’ in care.

Essential Functions

• Meet all the mandates of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and OCFS for case management services to unaccompanied children in the care of Sheltering Arms
• Interview children to assess their needs, immigration journey, health history and all required psychosocial information
• Develop, Implement and Carry out preliminary services plans, individualized service plans and service plan reviews in the required timeframes
• Locate, screen and assess children’s potential sponsors
• Ensure children are released to sponsors within 30 days of intake
• Maintain communication and coordination with each child’s sponsor and family about the child’s needs and well being
• Complete progress notes and maintain case records according to ORR contractual obligation and OCFS standards.
• Review cases regularly with the Lead Case Manager
• Collaborate with foster parents, nurses and social workers to meet health and mental health needs
• Coordinate planning with immigration, customs, legal representatives, homeland security and child advocates
• Advocate for the children and agency in Immigration court
• Attend required annual training and supplemental training to keep current with new developments and resources
• Conduct home visits
• Performs other duties as delegated

Qualifications:

• BSW/BA in related field
• Experience with the child welfare system ORR and immigration a must
• Strong writing, relationship and organizational skills
• Bilingual in Spanish or Haitian creole required
• Must be able to work evenings and weekends

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

It is the policy of Sheltering Arms that the Agency wholly complies with the equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

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