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General Description:
The TWA - Foster Care Liaison serves to ensure compliance with federal and state legal requirements related to the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Acts and foster care student enrollment procedures. This position supports the enrollment, educational stability, and academic success of students in foster care by collaborating with school personnel, social services agencies, courts, caregivers, and community partners.
Job Description:
Essential Job Functions:
Promotes and supports policies and procedures related to youth in foster care that align with federal and state laws, regulations, and educational stability requirements
Establishes and maintains division-wide processes for tracking, monitoring, and reporting enrollment, attendance, transportation, and academic data pertaining to students in foster care
Facilitates timely school enrollment, withdrawal, records requests, and records transfers by collaborating with sending and receiving schools, social services agencies, caregivers, and community partners to minimize educational disruptions
Identifies, reviews, and evaluates current enrollment practices to ensure barriers to school access and participation for foster youth are reduced or eliminated
Schedules, coordinates, and conducts Best Interest Determination (BID) meetings and educational planning conferences to support school placement decisions and educational continuity for students in foster care
Coordinates transportation services in collaboration with the Student Transportation Department and child welfare agencies to support students remaining in their school of origin when determined to be in the student’s best interest
Provides and assists with training, technical assistance, and ongoing guidance to school administrators, faculty, and staff regarding federal and state foster care regulations, educational rights, transportation requirements, and division enrollment procedures for students in foster care and applicable legal mandates
Assists with data collection and reporting processes using standard database software applications to monitor student outcomes and program compliance
Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with social services agencies, state program staff, and community stakeholders to support student needs and continuity of education
May perform other duties, as assigned
Budgetary Responsibility:
This position has no budgetary responsibility.
Report Preparation:
May prepare related reports as requested
Equipment Operation:
Regularly utilizes basic office equipment such as computers, phone, and scanner
Contacts:
This position has regular contact with all levels both within and outside of the division. Contacts include social workers, registrars, school administrators, transportation personnel, regional and local Department of Social Services (DSS) staff and Foster Care Liaisons, and the State Coordinator for Project Hope - Virginia.
Direction/Supervision:
This position does not supervise or provide work direction to other positions.
Decision Making:
Substantial independent decision making is required with continuous communication with, and appropriate clearance from, the Coordinator of Social Work Services.
Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities:
May provide expertise and recommendations for policies related to Fostering Connections
Physical Demands:
Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; to exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; to hear and understand speech at normal indoor levels, outdoors, and on the telephone; and to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly. Must have the…