Specialized Foster Caregivers for Youth – Stride

Enviros; Calgary; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Enviros is seeking Specialized Foster Caregivers to provide youth with a safe and caring family environment. This role involves supporting youth with complex needs through trauma-informed care, ensuring their healthy development until they transition to a permanent home. Extensive training and resources are provided to caregivers, enabling them to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable youth.

Qualifications

• Experience in human services with vulnerable populations.
• Knowledge of strength-based practice and trauma-informed care.
• Experience working with high-risk youth.

Responsibilities

• Provide youth with a safe, caring family home.
• Support healthy development and meaningful connections.
• Help youth transition to their forever home.

Skills

Knowledge of trauma-informed care

Encouraging and supportive attitude

Ability to adapt to changing situations

Open communication

Education

Experience in human services with vulnerable populations

Knowledge of strength-based practice

Experience working with high-risk youth

Job description

Enviros is an innovative social services agency that provides critical, individualized programs to children, youth, adults, and families in vulnerable situations to meet their desired outcomes and wellness.

Enviros helps our clients make strength-based changes to move towards independence within a healthy community.

Enviros focuses on programs tailored to the unique needs of individual clients, practicing experiential learning to provide opportunities for personal discovery and growth.

Relationships are the foundation of our programs and what enables clients to develop skills, healthy trust, and independence.

Since our founding in 1976, Enviros has been an early adopter of new evidence-based best practices and has contributed to developing and informing other best practices.

Why People Choose Enviros

Our vision is: “The Power of Human Relationships Invites Belonging and Inspires Growth”.

The Program – Stride

Enviros is developing a new model of care within the Child Intervention System. STRIDE is a Therapeutic Foster Caregiving model that is family-based, culturally safe, short-term, out-of-home placement designed to support youth with complex needs. This wraparound service involves a highly trained Contracted Agency Caregiver working within a Therapeutic Team, including cultural support, to provide individualized trauma-informed care.

Position Overview

Our Specialized Foster Caregivers provide youth with a safe, caring family home that supports healthy development and meaningful connections until they transition to their forever home. They help youth grow into healthy adulthood through daily experiences. We provide industry-leading training to ensure our caregivers can support and guide youth successfully transitioning out of care.

With a loving, trauma-informed home, youth can remain in a family setting rather than entering group care, homelessness, or worse. Our caregivers can change the trajectory of a child's life with support from our skilled team, including a family coach, therapist, youth specialist, and cultural support, operating from an experiential, strength-based perspective.

Becoming a caregiver with Enviros and the Stride program means receiving extensive support and resources, including:

• Structured Experiences
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Weekly check-ins
• Program Support Meetings
• Cultural and Wellness Supports
• Individualized Crisis Supports
• A desire to support youth with complex needs
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care
• Encouraging and supportive attitude
• Ability to adapt to changing situations
• Open communication

Education & Experience

• Experience in human services with vulnerable populations
• Knowledge of strength-based practice and trauma-informed care
• Experience working with high-risk youth

Other Qualifications

• Having a spare bedroom in your home
• Valid Class 5 driver’s license (Class 5 GDL not accepted)
• A clean driver’s abstract with no more than two minor offences or one major offence
• Standard First Aid and CPR Level “C” certification
• Recent Police Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Check (within six months)
• Child Intervention Check (within one year)

In addition to a challenging and creative work environment, Enviros offers: