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Full-Time | Live-In Position for a Married Couple

$66,950 combined annual salary + $5,000 retention bonus + housing and utilities provided

Make a Home. Build Relationships. Change Lives.

Hope Ranch of Missouri is seeking a married couple to serve as Teaching Parents in one of our family-style residential homes.

Teaching Parents live in the home with up to six youth and provide the stability, structure, encouragement and everyday care that help young people heal from abuse, neglect and trauma.

This is not a traditional group-home position. Our Teaching Parents serve in a true family-style role — sharing meals, helping with school and activities, teaching life skills, working through difficult moments, celebrating progress and creating the consistency young people need to feel safe and supported.

If you and your spouse are compassionate, dependable and interested in meaningful work you can do together, we would love to talk with you.

Make a Difference While Providing a Safe and Supportive Environment for Youth

Hope Ranch of Missouri is seeking dependable, compassionate, and dedicated Overnight Youth Care Specialists to join our residential care team. We have both part-time and PRN opportunities available.

Hope Ranch is a nonprofit organization providing a safe, nurturing, family-style environment for children and adolescents who have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, and other challenging life circumstances.

Our mission is to provide hope, healing, and opportunities for a brighter future through residential care, education, counseling, community involvement, and spiritual development.

As an Overnight Youth Care Specialist, you will play an essential role in maintaining a safe, secure, and supportive home environment during overnight hours.

Every Child Deserves a Safe Place to Heal

At Hope Ranch of Missouri, we provide a safe, family-style home for children and teens who have experienced abuse, neglect, and significant trauma.

Our **Youth Care Specialists—known within the Teaching Family Model as Teaching Parents—**play an important role in creating the stability, structure, and encouragement our youth need to heal and grow.

We are currently hiring for:

• Part-Time Positions

• Overnight Shifts

• Weekend Shifts

• PRN / As-Needed Positions

This is a great opportunity for someone looking for part-time hours, weekend work, overnight shifts, or a flexible PRN position while making a meaningful difference in the lives of young people.

If you're compassionate, dependable, patient, and comfortable working with youth who have experienced trauma, we'd love to meet you.

The Behavioral Specialist Qualified Professional (BSQP) will participate in, and facilitate, the Child & Family Team and Person-Centered Planning Processes on behalf of the youth and families served. The BSQP will develop, update and provide ongoing monitoring of progress and needed supports in relation to treatment goals in the Person-Centered Plan. The BSQP will also provide one-on-one skill-building, psychoeducation, parenting training, coaching, behavior support, and crisis interventions to clients and families on the Child Focused ACTT Team caseload. The BSQP will also assist parents with program technology needs including but not limited to company-issued iPhone set up. 

The Child ACTT Team Lead is responsible, personally or through appropriate delegation, for staffing and clinical supervision of the Child Focused Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. The Team Leader works in conjunction with the Chief Program Officer, Program Manager, Program Director, and Psychiatric Supervisor to provide overall clinical leadership and responsibility for monitoring participant treatment, rehabilitation, and support services provided by the Child ACT Team, as well as supports the clinical supervision, education, and training of other team members. The Team Leader provides assistance to individuals to maximize their recovery, ensures consumer-directed goal setting, assists both the individual and family served to gain hope and a sense of empowerment, and provides assistance in helping the individuals served become respected and valued members of their family and community. This is a flexible hybrid position, requiring office, home and community-based work.

Using the Teaching-Family Model, the Foster Care Supervisor provides primary supervision of case management services for children and youth placed in Children’s Hope Alliance foster care programs, including family foster care, therapeutic foster care, and IAFT. Foster Care Supervisors are accountable for ensuring services are rendered according to accredidation, licensing, & regulatory standards. Foster Care Supervisors are accountable for ensuring key performance indicators are met for the program. Foster Care Supervisors are accountable for ensuring Children’s Hope Alliance values and principles are carried out in the program, this includes, but is not limited to, fiscal responsibility, being outcome-driven, family & child centered, and mission oriented.

Per the tenets of the SAMHSA NC Healthy Transitions Grant, the Youth Peer Support Partner II provides direct, youth-driven peer support to transition-aged youth and young adults (ages 16–25) experiencing serious mental illness and/or co-occurring disabilities. Grounded in System of Care (SOC) values, person-centered, and trauma-informed approaches, this role uses lived experience to build authentic relationships that promote recovery, resiliency, empowerment, and self-determination.

The Youth Peer Support Partner II supports young people as they navigate the transition from youth-serving systems into adult services, helping reduce stigma while increasing youth voice, leadership, and access to community-based supports.

The Case Manager will coordinate services and resources for youth and families being served. The Case Manager provides ongoing support and training to foster parents as well as ensuring that foster parents maintains compliance with established standards. The Case Manager is responsible for documentation and files for all foster parents and foster children assigned to their caseloads

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Case Management

• Prepare reports and reviews in a timely, clear, and concise manner per Service Manual guidelines, including individual treatment plans or person-centered plans, contact logs, quarterly reviews, supervision notes, discharge summaries, Child and Family, and other assigned reports, utilizing computer-based clinical management software and other network software

• Review medical administration records (MARs) and grids at twice a month to ensure timeliness and accuracy.

• Complete all documentation within agency deadlines, according to regulatory guidelines

• Participate in the planning and delivery of services regarding admission, treatment, and discharge. This includes coordination and facilitation of Child and Family Team Meetings as well as other services as needed.

The recruiter/trainer will recruit, train, and license families pursuing either family, therapeutic, or IAFT foster parent licensing as well as coordinating placement of foster children in their region. The recruiter/trainer coordinates and participates in ongoing training of foster parents throughout the year including model related topics, CPR and First Aid and MAR, as well as any other training needs in their region.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Complete all preservice training in required time frames. Staff will annually complete 24 hours of training.

• Responsible for recruitment of foster care referrals and developing relationships with area DSS offices and other referral sources.

• Utilize agency Teaching-Family Model pre-service training model to train foster families to assess safety, family strengths.

• Knowledgeable of foster care and adoptions and its impact on families and children and ensure all homes meet all licensing regulations.

From a person-centered and systems of care framework, provides direct care services and planned treatment interventions for children who have experienced complex trauma, coordinate all treatment services for clients within the Children's Hope Alliance Day treatment program.

The recruiter/trainer will recruit, train, and license families pursuing either family, therapeutic, or IAFT foster parent licensing as well as coordinating placement of foster children in their region. The recruiter/trainer coordinates and participates in ongoing training of foster parents throughout the year including model related topics, CPR and First Aid and MAR, as well as any other training needs in their region.

We’re looking for a dedicated Program Manager to lead daily operations and ensure the home provides a safe, therapeutic environment. You’ll manage staff, budgets, and programming while fostering strong relationships with residents, families, and community partners.

The Case Manager supports the overall care and treatment of youth within IUMCH’s residential programs. This position plays a key role in maintaining a therapeutic, family-style environment and ensuring that treatment plans are implemented effectively and in compliance with IUMCH standards and state regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise Foster Care Specialists working with children and families in Wake and surrounding counties.

• Oversee daily operations of Foster Care and Therapeutic Foster Care programs.

• Ensure compliance with NC foster care licensing laws and agency policies.

• Provide clinical consultation and ensure quality of treatment planning.

• Serve as point of contact for DSS and other partner agencies.

• Be available for 24/7 on-call support on a rotating basis.

• Monitor program budgets and contribute to strategic planning.

• Conduct initial and ongoing assessments for children entering care.

Clinical Supervision Available for Provisionally Licensed Clinicians

Make a Difference Beyond the Therapy Room

Hope Ranch of Missouri is seeking a compassionate, dedicated master's-level Trauma Therapist to join our multidisciplinary team serving children and adolescents who have experienced trauma, abuse, neglect, and significant life challenges.

At Hope Ranch, therapy is more than a weekly appointment. Our therapist plays an essential role in helping young people heal, develop healthy relationships, build resilience, and prepare for a brighter future.

This is a unique opportunity to provide meaningful clinical services while collaborating closely with residential staff, educators, families, and other professionals who support our youth every day.

The Child ACTT Team Lead is responsible, personally or through appropriate delegation, for staffing and clinical supervision of the Child Focused Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. The Team Leader works in conjunction with the Chief Program Officer, Program Manager, Program Director, and Psychiatric Supervisor to provide overall clinical leadership and responsibility for monitoring participant treatment, rehabilitation, and support services provided by the Child ACT Team, as well as supports the clinical supervision, education, and training of other team members. The Team Leader provides assistance to individuals to maximize their recovery, ensures consumer-directed goal setting, assists both the individual and family served to gain hope and a sense of empowerment, and provides assistance in helping the individuals served become respected and valued members of their family and community. This is a flexible hybrid position, requiring office, home and community-based work. 

This position supports the new and innovative Child Focused Assertive Community Treatment Team. Child ACTT is a team-based multi-disciplinary approach to serving kids in their homes, kinship placements, foster homes, or may begin during a transition from a more restrictive residential setting or hospitalization. Child ACTT is primarily community based, however some flexible office based work will be required. This is an exciting new service in North Carolina, with the goal of helping children with severe emotional disturbances stay in their home environments successfully. 

We are seeking an Assessment Clinician for our Kinston, NC center to play a key role in evaluating youth and shaping their path forward.

This position supports the new and innovative Child Focused Assertive Community Treatment Team. Child ACTT is a team-based multi-disciplinary approach to serving kids in their homes, kinship placements, foster homes, or may begin during a transition from a more restrictive residential setting or hospitalization. Child ACTT is primarily community based, however some flexible office based work will be required. This is an exciting new service in North Carolina, with the goal of helping children with severe emotional disturbances stay in their home environments successfully.