The Foster Care Licensing Specialist is responsible for recruiting prospective foster parents, guiding families through the licensing and certification process, conducting home assessments, coordinating required training, maintaining accurate documentation, and ensuring compliance with agency policies and state licensing regulations.
- Coordinate and engage in recruitment and awareness activities to recruit prospective foster/adoptive parents and build community awareness relations
- Develop and implement proactive, strategic recruitment plans designed to attract and certify qualified candidates, while maintaining a pipeline of both active and passive candidates for future training and certification
- Respond to foster parent inquiries within 24 hours via phone
- Develop strategies to support efforts for general, targeted and child-specific recruitment and marketing
- Understand and follow all agency and state licensing requirements and always ensure foster parents’ compliance with regulations
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in social work, psychology, childhood education, education counseling and psychology, or other human service, behavioral science field or public administration field
- Nice to have: Resource Development
- Nice to have: Foster Parent Recruitment and Retention
- Nice to have: Marketing
- Nice to have: Fundraising
- Support to all members of the treatment team