Professional Foster Parents - Fort Bend County, TX

The St. Jerome's URM Program at Rio Bend in Fort Bend County is seeking 3 sets of bilingual Spanish speaking married couples to live and work in a home as Foster Parents with refugee adolescents and/or young adults. 

Responsibilities include:

• act as a parent, advocate, life skills teacher and role model for the cients of URM foster care.
• provide a structured nurturing environment that promotes and fosters a sense of belonging, mastery, independence and generosity while ensuring safety at all times through close supervision and high interaction with clients.,
• implementing service plans, coordinating with various professionals on behalf of youth to ensure youth needs are met including school personnel, therapist, and psychiatrist, advocating for adolescents, and
• managing a home budget
 

Requirements:

• Bi-lingual in Spanish and English,
• high school diploma or equivalent
• a minimum of one year experience working with youth, refugee children preferred. 
• must be at least 21 years of age or older
• creating a lifestyle centered on working with adolescents in a supportive, nurturing home environment is a must.