The Manager, Permanency is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring that children in foster care achieve safe, stable, and lasting permanency.
Requirements
- Develop and implement strategies to exceed performance measures related to placement stability, timely permanency, sibling placements, community-based placements and youth participation in Preparation for Adult Living (PAL) services.
- Monitor case timelines and progress to prevent delays in achieving permanency, ensuring that reunification goals are met within 12 months and adoption goals within 22 months.
- Track and analyze permanency outcomes utilizing data to identify gaps and improve practices.
- Supervise and support a team of Permanency Supervisors and Case Managers.
- Provide coaching, training, and performance feedback to ensure high-quality casework.
- Guide staff in resolving complex case issues, including legal concerns and resource navigation.
- Train staff on “family finding” strategies and tools to identify and engage relatives and fictive kin.
- Develop and implement placement support strategies to promote stability and caregiver retention.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to expand placement options and support.
- Design and implement systems and schedules for child watch staff.
- Ensure appropriate staffing, training, and documentation for all child watch activities.
- Represent the organization in court hearings, family meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
- Collaborate with Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), attorneys, and the judiciary to support permanency outcomes.
- Apply trauma-informed care principles to case planning and team leadership.
- Promote relational capacity within the team and across the organization.
