Our Graduates: Career Profile
Additional Education: N/A
Job Title: Foster Care Casemanager
Employer: The Bair Foundation
Position Description: Bethany provides case management services for foster children and foster families. This includes organizing paperwork, setting up medical and dental appointments, arranging for therapy, walking families through the bureaucracy that is the Dept of Children and Youth, giving parenting advice and suggestions for difficult situations, monitoring safety and adequacy of foster homes, as well as simply being there to talk to and turn to for support for the families and children.
Salary Range : 23,000-28,000 (in an entry-level position at a private agency
Previously Held Positions: Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist, Youth Counselor (Residential), Teacher’s Aide
Courses Found Most Helpful: Strategies, Family Dynamics, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Parenting
How HDFS Helped to Prepare Her: “I have found that the unique knowledge base that I gained
through the Family Studies department helps me regularly with daily on-the-job challenges, has helped me to obtain jobs, and gives me a distinct perspective that has been noticed and appreciated by several of my employers.”
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