T.a.p. Admissions-lethbridge

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 55648
Ministry: Children and Family Services
Location: Lethbridge
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: April 10,2024
Classification: Human Services Worker 4

**Salary**: $2,514.93 to 3,255.07 bi-weekly ($65,639 - 84,957/year)

A successful society is defined by its people and the opportunities available for them to fully and actively participate in all aspects of life and provide for themselves and/or their families. The Ministry of Children and Family Services focuses on early intervention, child development and delivering supports and services to children, youth and families. It works to ensure that children in Alberta have the tools they need to thrive in healthy families and communities. You can be part of helping us make a difference

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**Role Responsibilities**:
The Child Intervention Delivery Division (CID), Youth in Transition Branch (YIT) leads Children and Family Services in the delivery of targeted approaches to support young adults from care as they transition to adulthood, through the Transition to Adulthood Program (TAP), Advancing Futures (AF) and Youth Strategies initiatives. Youth in Transition, post-intervention programs, including TAP and AF, empowers young adults from care to meet their full potential through self-selection of specialized pathways to support their needs. The pathways support educational, career, and employment life goals for young adults who are ready to pursue their goals and aspirations.

TAP also provides supportive pathways for clients who require a period of stabilization, focused life skills acquisition, or transition to adult support services programming. AF assists youth and young adults who have been or continue to be in the care of Children and Family Services to access post-secondary education opportunities as they transition out of care and into adulthood. AF provides social and emotional transitional supports and the funding to support their educational goals as a means of obtaining a meaningful career. Between the TAP/AF programs, there are over 5000 youth/young adults who meet the TAP/AF eligibility criteria and over 3000 clients enrolled in both programs.

The TAP Admissions Coordinator position is a key professional role within the YIT Branch providing the initial client engagement to youth and young adults from care, and their caseworkers. While the role does not carry a caseload, it is responsible for orchestrating client intake; ensuring files are accurate and complete, and connecting clients to their assigned TAP/AF Practitioner. This role is centralized within the ministry of Children and Family Services, but is physically located in communities throughout Alberta, and requires collaboration and coordination with all provincial Admissions Coordinators to ensure all TAP and AF clients are accounted for, and transitions are expedited to their selected pathway. In order to meet clients and their caseworkers, travel will be required.

The TAP Admissions role must also be familiar with all relevant community programming within the community the position is physically situated in, to support appropriate client referrals

**Role Cont'd**:
In order to fully support their clients, TAP Admissions staff will need to have positive working relationships and knowledge of both internal and external resources; within Children and Family Services TAP Practitioners may interact with colleagues in Child Intervention, Advancing Futures, the CFS RESP Program, the CFS Youth Employment / Apprenticeship Connections Program, Delegated First Nation Agencies (DFNA) and the Records, Registry and Connection unit, as well as GoA colleagues in Persons with Development Disabilities (PDD), Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH), Alberta Supports, The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, Justice and Solicitor General, Alberta Health Services, Alberta Mental Health and Addiction supports, and the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate.

TAP Admissions Staff will be supporting Indigenous young adults from care, and are required to have an active understanding of the effects of colonialism, intergenerational trauma, the 60's Scoop, the residential school system and its ongoing traumatic effect on Indigenous communities and adults from care, as well as a working knowledge of Indigenous communities in Alberta and the importance of connecting Indigenous clients to their community, culture, teachings and heritage, active engagement in ceremony and connection to Elders and the land.

To best serve young adults from care, TAP Admissions staff will need an active understanding of young adult developmental stages, practice with a trauma informed lens (including intergenerational trauma and the long term effects of trauma experienced while in care), Anti-oppressive practice, an understanding of common m