About Graham Windham

In full partnership with families and communities, Graham Windham strives to make a life-altering difference with children, youth, and families who are overcoming some of life’s most difficult challenges and obstacles, by helping to build a strong foundation for life: a safe, loving, permanent family and the opportunity and preparation to thrive in school and in the world.

About the Program

Graham Windham’s General and Intensive Prevention programs help more than 300 families care safely for the children, while addressing underlying conditions that can lead to child abuse or neglect, such as parental depression, family stress, substance use or domestic violence. Using Solution-Based Casework, we actively work with parents to help them develop a more active, consistent and productive role in their child’s educational and social development, and we encourage families to build connections to positive supports in their community who will help them sustain their progress.

Position Overview

The Preventive Director in partnership with the Associate Vice-President of Social Services, alongside the Preventive management team will insure that the multi-site and multi-method programs have a consistently strong approach to partnering with families to promote the safety and wellbeing of all children; insure that the agency practice approach (Solution-Based Casework) is used to partner with families to help develop and encourage families to build connections to positive supports in their community who will help them sustain their progress; collaborate effectively with all internal and external programs to insure that our families and staff have access to high-quality programs and resources that meet their needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

•        Drives the implementation of practices, policies and procedures consistent with Graham Windham’s Prevention Program Plan for Performance Excellence.
•        Ensure that supportive and rehabilitative services are provided to children and families to avert disruption of the families that could result in foster care placement; enable a child in care to reunite with their family at an earlier time or prevent re-entry of a child into foster care.
•        Work with program leadership to insure that all staff are trained and certified in Solution Based Casework and that staff remain proficient in the skills.
•        Monitor all case planning components by tracking appropriate quality assurance issues including ACS evaluation items.
•        Support agency policy by use of progressive discipline.
•        Directly supervise support and case planning team in the absence of supervisors.
•        Present the Preventive Program to the community, maintain and establish community linkages and collaboration with community groups, elected officials, health facilities and other agencies.
•        Provide ongoing management direction and support to staff ensuring correct implementation of agency policies and procedures.
•        Maintain and apply a current knowledge of Preventive Service regulations.
•        Attend regularly scheduled supervision, courses and seminars for the purpose of maintaining and enhancing social work, supervisory and management skills.
•        Respond to agency/ client emergencies within or outside office hours.