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Job Title: Adoption Caseworker
Employer: COBYS Family Services
Position Description: To train and assist families pursuing adoption and foster care through the approval process, write family and child profiles, prepare children for adoption, complete finalizations, develop my agency’s Post Permanency program, and to support families who have adopted by providing support groups respite care, and case management services.
Salary Range : $19,000-28,000
Previously Held Positions: Foster Care Caseworker/Family Consultant
Courses Found Most Helpful: Most of the courses I took play an equally relevant role in my career.
How HDFS Helped to Prepare Her: It provided me with fundamental understanding of family dynamics, child and adult development, interpersonal relationships, parenting styles, and marital relationships. Each of these items is important and plays into every aspect of my client’s lives.
How Her Faith Interfaces with Her Work: Due to the fact that I work at a Christian agency, (COBYS stands for Church of the Brethren Youth Services) I am strengthened by fellow coworkers who share similar beliefs and values. After working for a secular agency, I realized that faith plays such an integral part in a person’s ability to heal emotionally and relationally.
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