T.A.P. Practitioner

Job Information
- Job Title: T.
A.
P. Practitioner
- Job Requisition ID: 88191
- Ministry: Children and Family Services
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Location:
Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer
- Full or Part-Time: Full Time
- Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
- Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Temporary and Permanent
- Scope: Open
- Closing Date: October 13, 2026
- Classification: Human Services Worker 5 (065HSA)
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Salary:
$2,872.21 to $3,7712.88 bi-weekly ($74,964 to $96,906 / year) The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding and diverse career opportunities. The Transition to Adulthood Program (TAP) supports young adults aged 18 to 24 who were formerly in government care as they transition to adulthood. The program combines practical supports, including case management, life skills development, housing, employment, and connections to community resources, with educational supports through Advancing Futures (AF). Advancing Futures (AF) provides eligible young adults with funding and social-emotional support while they pursue post-secondary education, academic upgrading, trades training, certifications, licences, diplomas, or degrees, helping them develop the skills and credentials needed for long-term independence and success. Are you driven to make a meaningful impact in the lives of young adults transitioning from care? You can be part of helping us make a difference The Transition to Adulthood Practitioner (TAP) is a key professional role within the TAP program, providing engaged, relational, and interactive case management to young adults from care, and their support networks. TAP Practitioners are instrumental in active transition planning with young adults from care, to ensure they are robustly connected to all areas of their life as they emerge into adulthood. TAP Practitioners have the essential role of engaging a young adult’s supportive network, as well as fostering connection with a client's self identified family, to ensure a robust natural support network is established and maintained, that will meet the client's needs. TAP is a voluntary adult program, and TAP Practitioners will require excellent relationship building skills that will nurture trust and understanding with clients as they navigate the program's pathways, funding structure, and soft supports. TAP Practitioners have individualized mandates with each of their clients based on their Transition to Independence Plan goals, and connections. It is the responsibility of the TAP Practitioner to actively support clients in achieving their self-selected transition plan objectives before they are no longer eligible to receive support from Children's Services, as per the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act (CYFEA), and its associated policies and regulations. To effectively support young adults in achieving their transition goals, TAP Practitioners collaborate with a broad network of internal and external partners. This includes Children's Services programs such as Advancing Futures (AF), the Registered Education Savings Plan Program (RESP), Youth Employment Connections Program (YECP), Youth Apprenticeship Connection Program (YACP) and Records Registry and Connects (RRC), as well as Government of Alberta (GOA) partners including Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD), Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH), Alberta Supports, Alberta Health Services, Mental Health and Addiction supports, the Office of the Public Guardian, Justice and Solicitor General, and the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate. Practitioners also develop strong working relationships with employment and career services, mentoring programs, post-secondary institutions, contracted service providers, and community organizations that provide life skills, housing, mental health, addiction, and other supports for young adults transitioning from care. TAP Practitioners will be supporting Indigenous young adults from care, and are required to have an active understanding 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 Practitioners 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 mental health considerations, awareness and understanding of sexual and gender diversity, Attachment Theory, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, substance use/ addiction issues, Harm Reduction, an