Work. Together.
At the Children’s Shelter, you will be an integral member of our family of services. We take pride in being the community’s leading provider of trauma-informed care. And that begins and ends with employees who believe in our mission of restoring innocence and strengthening families.
Core Values
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Excellence
We offer superior, innovative services by thinking and acting creatively and resourcefully. We will model excellence to and for the community, holding ourselves to a higher standard.
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Respect
We accept everyone as individuals without regard to their race, religious beliefs, political affiliation, sexual orientation, and culture or economic status.
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Integrity
We honor all commitments. We are truthful, honest and adhere to high moral standards. Integrity shapes our character and influences how we meet the needs of the people we serve, and the decisions we make.
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Teamwork
We work with a spirit of collaboration, inviting different people to participate with different ideas and perspectives, and skills to work towards a common goal.
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Transparency
We strive to create a culture of trust between our staff, children and families, and community partners by being open and honest about our strengths and challenges as an agency.
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Innovation
We seek effective solutions by bringing together various ideas that have a positive impact on staff, children and families, and the community.
Family of Services
The Children’s Shelter Family of Services delivers high quality, compassionate trauma-informed care delivered to children and families impacted by or at-risk of abuse and neglect.
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Principles
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Safety
Our program activities and settings are designed to promote the physical and emotional safety of our clients and staff.
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Collaboration
We include our clients’ input in planning and evaluating our service. We respect our clients’ life experiences and history, and operate from a model of doing “with” rather than “to” or “for” our clients.
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Trustworthiness
We build trust with those we serve by making the tasks in our service delivery clear, by ensuring consistency in practice, and maintaining appropriate boundaries in our programs.
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Choice
We designed our services to ensure that our clients’ experiences of choice and control are maximized.
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Empowerment
We recognize and emphasize our client’s strengths and skills, by focusing on skill development and enhancement. We convey optimism about the capacity of our client to reach their goals.
Opportunities
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Family Support Specialist
The Family Support Specialist is responsible for therapeutic trauma focused case management services to families receiving foster care and adoption services. Strategize to promote Foster Care and Adoption Programs in the community. Responsible for completion of all aspects of the recruitment and verification process for families.
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Home Development Specialist
The Kinship Home Development Specialist is responsible for the coordination and implementation of verification and licensing process for kinship families. He/she promotes Kinship Foster Care and Adoption services to the community. He/she works as the primary case manager to all prospective kinship foster and adoptive parents who want to foster, or adopt children in the custody of DFPS. Responsible for all aspects of home development to include recruitment, pre-service training, and verification process.
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Events and Volunteer Manager
ApplyThe Events and Volunteer Manager is a full-time position dedicated to managing all events, social media content, volunteers, and corporate relations to promote, raise money for, and awareness for The Children’s Shelter.
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Maintenance Manager
ApplyManages and schedules maintenance personnel, including outsourcing vendors for the facilities. Oversee and manage housekeeping and custodial services. Maintain a work-order log and manage work requests from staff. Supervise the repair of all plumbing, electrical, and carpentry and all other repairs coordinating with field staff. Acquire bids from outside vendors and schedule work beyond scope of routine maintenance. Prepare cost estimates for unscheduled repairs and maintenance work.
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Senior Financial Accountant
The Senior Financial Accountant has responsibility for maintaining the general ledger of The Children’s Shelter and The Children’s Shelter Foundation including chart of accounts. Works closely with CFO to ensure that all transactions are processed in a timely and accurate manner. Responsible for the accuracy of the general ledger and all other financial records, as well as payroll processing.
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Grant Accountant
Responsible for preparing the reporting of all State, Federal, United Way and other grants benefiting the Agency. Tracking the deferred revenue associated with the contracts. Preparing all grant budgets. Creating, monitoring, and maintaining the tracking processes for all grants.
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Director of Communications
The Director of Communications serves as the public relations director for the agency and respected programs and positions The Children’s Shelter as the ‘authority’ and ‘thought leader’ in the prevention of child abuse and neglect via advocacy initiatives, media, and strategic community relations. Leads the coordination of agency special events and ensures brand integrity and messaging. The Director of Communications is also responsible for creating an environment that encourages open communication, and collaboration, leverages Trauma-Informed Care principles and Praesidum best practices for safety while increasing employee engagement and retention.
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VP of Development
The Vice President of Development provides leadership to The Children’s Shelter’s development program to meet and advance the mission, vision, and values of the agency. Leadership includes strategic planning, coordination, and implementation of all fundraising activities, fund development, grants, community relations, communications, PR, volunteer services, and other for-profit revenue programs. The Vice President of Development develops and maintains active and productive relationships with individual, foundation, and corporate donors and board members. The Vice President of Development is also responsible for creating an environment that encourages open communication, collaboration, and emphasizes Trauma-Informed Care principles and Praesidium best practices for safety while increasing employee engagement and retention.
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Training Specialist
The Training Specialist facilitates and monitors training activities and events as scheduled in the monthly calendar for The Children’s Shelter (TCS) staff, foster/adoptive parents, and external consumers. The Training Specialist upholds the agency’s training program in accordance with TCS philosophies, policies, and procedures, State of Texas minimum Standards for Residentials Child Care, and Council on Accreditation standards.
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NFP Nurse Home Visitor
The function of the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) Nurse Home Visitor is to provide comprehensive community health nursing services to women and their families eligible for the NFP Program. The Nurse Home Visitor is responsible for maintaining the highest standards in clinical nursing practice and adherence to the NFP model, and to policies, procedures, guidelines and standards of NFP and The Children’s Shelter. The Nurse Home Visitor reports to the NFP Nurse Supervisor.
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Family Support Specialist
The Family Support Specialist is responsible for therapeutic trauma focused case management services to families receiving foster care and adoption services. Strategize to promote Foster Care and Adoption Programs in the community. Responsible for completion of all aspects of the recruitment and verification process for families.
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Clinical Therapist
The Hope Center Clinical Therapist on the Hope Healing and Resiliency Project (HHR) provides trauma-focused, evidence-based treatment to children, youth, and families exposed to various kinds of traumatic events. Treatment services include assessment of trauma, crisis intervention, individual, group, and family therapy, family advocacy and safety planning.
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