Become a Foster Parent!
As a Foster Parent at Northeast Center for Youth & Families, you can:
- Work from home!
- Make a lifetime impact on a child’s life
- Have guaranteed stipend
- Work with a devoted Foster Care team
- Utilize your skills as a parent
- Use the following benefits:
- Engage in free agency-provided trainings at no cost to you
- Weekly tax-free stipend ranging from $466-$1244
- A supportive team to assist with what your home needs
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Engage in weekly visits with Case Managers
- Attend monthly visits with Resource Specialists
- Attend quarterly care plan meetings with the whole care team
- Inform staff of incidents and concerns with the children in your care
- Administer medications, if needed, and keep daily logs
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Home safety needs are up to date (such as working bathroom, running water, etc)
- Ability to pass criminal and DCF background checks
- Agency provided First Aid/CPR Certification and other required trainings after onboarding
Who is NCYF?
Northeast Center for Youth & Families in Easthampton is the main site for a large foster care program, outpatient clinic, CBHI services, residential services, and therapeutic daytime & after school programs. Led by a passionate and employee-oriented leadership team!
NCYF as a wider organization opened our doors in 1972 – we’re an experienced program with 3 locations throughout Massachusetts. For over 40 years, we have been committed to providing innovative and high quality care to the individuals we serve. Our mission is to empower individuals, children, and families to live healthy and successful lives. Our values include: hope, integrity, respect, and compassion, and we encompass these values into everything we do.
Bonus Info!
**$1,500.00 Sign-On Bonus! Upon placement of a Foster Care youth, $750.00 is paid after 6 consecutive months of active employment and $750.00 after 12 consecutive months of active employment. Certain retention timeframes do apply.
This is a remote position.
Since we first opened our doors over 40 years ago, NCYF has been committed to providing innovative, high-quality programs and services to children and their families. We have a long history of doing just that. We serve kids that other organizations won’t and offer a variety of programs to meet the wide-ranging needs of our clients. Our programs have been designed and developed to directly meet the needs of the children and families we serve; all of our staff are trained to provide care that is respectful of an individual’s trauma background, and our residential homes accept children and adolescents with the most difficult issues, not just those with less challenging problems.
Activate JobCopilot
Your email job alert is now active!