Caseworker Position

Position Responsibilities: 

• Serve as a positive role model;
• Participate in client intake and assessment interviews;
• Generate daily reports and keep accurate, up-to-date documentation of all clients;
• Develop and maintain relationships with client’s parents, emphasizing client accountability;
• Provide intensive tracking services;
• Provide client advocacy in the areas of health, education, vocation, legal and family/foster interventions;
• Create and lead activity programs;
• Establish aftercare plans and develop resources to aid client as he/she graduates from the program.  

Benefits: Caseworkers receive a bi-weekly stipend plus benefits, including a $4,725 AmeriCorp Education Award to further one's education or pay student loans.

Moreover, Choice remains committed to helping Caseworkers find their future. Upon completion their one-year contractual obligation, Catholic Family Services will pay Caseworkers up to an additional six weeks to help ease the transition between jobs.

Locating a new job is made easier, too.  Caseworkers' extensive contact with drug treatment centers, and other social and human service programs gives them the opportunity to acquaint themselves with potential employers, including:   

• Adult and Juvenile Court
• Juvenile Parole Services
• Greater Hartford area public schools & Board of Education
• Drug treatment centers
• Counseling centers
• Department of Children and Families
• Department of Social Services  

In fact, the Choice model is so highly respected that the Connecticut Department of Children & Family Services considers a one-year commitment to Choice as two years worth of experience in filling its case management positions.

Student Internship Program

Requirements: must be a student enrolled in college or university

Position Overview: Interns are expected to support our team of caseworkers, and must be willing to work in direct contact with juvenile parolees in the Greater Hartford area.

Position Responsibilities: Interns begin their training shadowing caseworkers to pick up on advocacy, supervision and crisis intervention skills.  Individual responsibilities vary with the level of commitment each person demonstrates, but all interns must be willing to work a minimum of 15 hours per week. Scheduling is flexible and can include nights and weekends.

Benefits: Interns gain valuable work experience, and come into contact with potential future employers. Upon graduation from college, capable interns are given a decided advantage over all other applicants for Hartford Choice Caseworker positions.