Adoption Readiness & Permanency Specialist

Depelchin; Texas; On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Texans Together is seeking an Adoption Preparation Specialist to support children in achieving safe, stable, and permanent adoptive placements. The role involves coordinating with families, agencies, and legal parties to prepare children and ensure well-being throughout care.

The position emphasizes addressing separation, grief, and attachment issues, and may involve involvement in abuse and neglect investigations related to foster/adoptive families.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Relevant experience considered in lieu of education requirement.
• Experience providing permanency case management for children in Permanency Managing Conservatorship (PMC).

Responsibilities

• Assess a child's readiness for adoption and explain adoption in an age-appropriate manner.
• Assist children in processing grief, loss, trauma, separation, and attachment issues.
• Identify the child's strengths, needs, preferences, and permanency goals.
• Develop adoption-related information to support matching activities.
• Provide permanency planning and recruitment activities for children on their caseload.
• Actively seek adoptive placements and relatives that best meet a child's individual needs.
• Support planning efforts to achieve safe, stable, and lasting permanency.
• Coordinate services necessary to meet the child's emotional, educational, medical, and permanency needs.
• Prepare reports and testimony for court with recommendations related to adoption planning, wellbeing and placement decisions.

Skills

Child welfare

Case management

Documentation

Court testimony

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Texans Together is seeking an Adoption Preparation Specialist to support children in achieving safe, stable, and permanent adoptive placements. The role involves coordinating with families, agencies, and legal parties to prepare children and ensure well-being throughout care.

The position emphasizes addressing separation, grief, and attachment issues, and may involve involvement in abuse and neglect investigations related to foster/adoptive families.