Friends of Children Guernsey County

WAGE INCREASE JANUARY 2023 OF 3% ALL EMPLOYEES

13 PAID HOLIDAYS OFF 4 personal days, and two weeks’ vacation after your first year

Life Insurance, Health/Dental/Vision Coverage with an HSA

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS)

Shared Agency Car for travel

Paid Training
Longevity pay, on-call pay, mobile technology, flexible schedule, optional deferred compensation, mileage reimbursement

Position available at Guernsey County Children Services, Cambridge, Ohio

THIS IS A BARGAINING UNIT POSITION

POSITION TITLE: Caseworker

STARTING RANGE: $17.00 – $21.49 per hour

Provides social casework services to abused and neglected children and their families. Completes assessments and/or investigations of reports of abuse or neglect of children to determine risk. Works with family to ensure safety. Works closely with courts, schools, mental health, and various community agencies to coordinate and provide intervention services for families. Performs paid emergency duty services on a rotating basis.

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with LSW beneficial or license eligible in the State of Ohio, or Bachelor’s Degree in related field. Additional rate for licensure or master's degree. Associates degree in a related field willing to obtain a bachelor's within 5 years may apply. Some may be eligible for tuition reimbursement.

Candidates will be paid to complete Core training of the Ohio Child Welfare System.

Must hold a valid Ohio driver’s license and maintain automobile liability insurance.

Excellent oral and written communication skills required. Ability to relate to individuals from various social, economic, and cultural backgrounds.

Must pass pre- employment drug and criminal background checks.

All applicants must submit a resume, a letter of interest and any other documents that demonstrate applicable training and skills for this position to the Business Director.

Applications must be submitted to Tacy Bates,

Guernsey County Children Services

274 Highland Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey County Children Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Bachelor’s Degree Required

THIS IS A BARGAINING UNIT POSITION

POSITION TITLE: Caseworker

STARTING RANGE: $17.00 – $21.49 per hour based on experience with 2%increase effective 1/2023

SELECTION PROCEDURE: A qualification review and structured interview process

POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Provides social casework services to abused and neglected children and their families. Completes assessments and/or investigations of reports of abuse or neglect of children to determine risk. Works with family to ensure safety. Works closely with courts, schools, mental health, and various community agencies to coordinate and provide intervention services for families. Performs paid emergency duty services on a rotating basis.
EDUCATION/

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with LSW beneficial or license eligible in the State of Ohio, or Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
Prefer candidates who have completed Core training of the Ohio Child

Welfare Training Program. Must hold a valid Ohio driver’s license and maintain automobile liability insurance. Excellent oral and written communication skills required. Ability to relate to individuals from various social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Must pass pre- employment drug and criminal background checks.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: All applicants must submit a resume, a letter of interest and any other documents that demonstrate applicable training and skills for this position to the Business Director.

ADVANTAGES OF WORKING
AT GUERNSEY COUNTY

CHILDREN SERVICES:
-Competitive wages
-Health care benefits - medical/dental/vision/RX/EAP

-Disability Income Insurance: Long-Term Benefits
-Basic Term Life & Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

-Health Savings Account
-11 Paid Holidays a Year, 4 personal days, and two weeks’ vacation after your first year

-Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS)
-Longevity pay, on-call pay, mobile technology, flexible schedule, optional deferred compensation, mileage reimbursement

All forms must be submitted to Tacy Bates, Guernsey County Children Services, 274 Highland Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio 43725 (to be date stamped) within the posting time frame. Guernsey County Children Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Friends of Children Guernsey County updated their address.

Assists director in developing, maintaining, and evaluating training program. Provides support and assistance to constituents in a 10-county region in performing training coordination, needs assessments, and logistical planning and implementation of training. Locates and schedules trainers to provide staff/foster parent training by reviewing outlines, agendas, and handouts in each skill area; processes payment data for each training/trainer; reviews monthly payment fiscal data to ensure accurate payment to each trainer. Maintains trainer files assuring resumes, trainer outlines, agendas and handouts are current and accurate. Coordinates regional foster/adoption specialists’ meetings; schedules quarterly training meetings; disseminates information pertinent to the foster program; Chairperson for annual foster parent conference by assessing foster parent needs, locating trainers, training sites, and processing fiscal data. Schedules and logistically plans and implements training to meet 10-county agency training needs. Extensive computer input and reporting. Ability to troubleshoot and set up training equipment software and hardware. Travel is required to work teams and meetings on and off site.

🎄🎄🎄We still have kids up for xmas adoption at Children Services! Please call in or let me know if interested! You can pick a gender or age range if you want. Help make Christmas magical for our area children! 740-439-5555🎄🎄🎄

You did it!! Your votes had the levy pass in every precinct! That is unprecedented and more than we ever thought possible! Our agency strives to do our best for the children and families in our area. Our staff work countless hours with families with family preservation in mind. We license foster families and provide education for parents in need. We refer families for services and are advocates for the children. With this levy we can continue to provide services for those children and families 💙💙💙

THANK YOU!! We can’t say it enough...thank you: to the voters, the sign displayers, the supporters, and our staff; everyone came together for the kids

As the polls come to a close, we want to thank everyone who voted or helped get the word out for our levy 💙 it takes a village to raise the future generation in our community 🏡 So again thank you!! We appreciate you more than you know!!

Friendly reminder to stop by your designated poll location on Election Day November 3: General Election: Polls are open from 6:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. & Voters are able to drop off absentee ballot at their county board of elections office until 7:30 p.m. DO YOUR PART & remember we’re on page 2 of your ballot ✅👍🏻💙🗳🇺🇸

It’s election eve and tomorrow is an exciting day!! We’ll see you at the polls 🇺🇸 🗳 We hope the children in our community can count on you to on your ballot to secure their future 🙌🏻✅👍🏻💙 We owe the children the best future possible!!!

Testimony Time: Another impactful story from one of our licensed agency foster homes who have opened their hearts and homes to help children have love and support while the family works towards reunification 💙🏡✅👍🏻

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Foster and Adopt - Taflan Family

As we head into the final weekend before Election Day, we want to thank the community for the overwhelming support you’ve given us! Our children in our community and their future is worth your vote!! We are excited for Tuesday 🗳💙✅👍🏻

🎄🎄🎄🎅Christmas is coming!! At Children's Services We will have our children's tags available for "adoption" hopefully around the 2nd week of November. We need a lot of help this year as we have a lot of kiddos to buy for!! If you, your family or your business/place of work is interested in helping please please reach out! It takes a village ❤ You can call the agency mon-fri 8:30-4:30 and let us know you want to help make a child's Christmas special!! 🎄🎄🎄🎅

We hope everyone out trick or treating stays safe tonight!!!
🎃🕸🦇
Watch for children crossing the street & have a ghoulish good time!!!

Testimony time:

We have been blessed to have such amazing people open their hearts and homes for our children in care. Please take a moment to watch this testimony From the Warren Family and their journey through foster parenting 💙✅👍🏻

The Warren Family Foster and Adopt

Did you know??? If you want to vote in person but before the November 3rd general election, you can at the Guernsey County Board of Elections! Don’t forget to flip to page 2 and for our first renewal levy in a decade 💙✅👍🏻

Children Services has a levy on the ballot this election!! Please We need our community's support in caring for these children! Don’t forget to turn your ballot over to Page 2 where our levy is listed! Thank you! ✅👍🏻💙

Voting info for 2020 where our Levy is on the ballot 🇺🇸💙✅👍🏻

MAIE SURE YOU FLIP YOUR BALLOT OVER TO VOTE FOR THE LEVY!!! We’re on page 2 👍🏻

Ohio's fall election is fast-approaching, with the pandemic still in full swing. Election Day is scheduled for November 3, and the U.S. presidential race, all 16 Ohio congressional seats and many other state races will be on the ballot. Many Ohioans will choose to cast their vote via absentee ballots this fall. The deadline to request an absentee ballot is October 31 at 12 p.m., but you should send in your applicaiton as soon as possible.

You can get an absentee ballot in the following ways:

Go online and print your own absentee ballot request form.
Fill out the required information by hand on a blank sheet of paper.
Call your local board of elections and ask them to send you a form.
Or, if you're one of 8 million Ohioans already registered to vote, you may have received an absentee ballot request form in the mail from the Ohio Secretary of State's Office.
Whichever method you choose, you have to fill out and send the completed request form to your local board of elections, then wait for the board to mail back a ballot.

Instead of sending your absentee ballot through the mail, you can drop off your ballot in person at your county board of elections anytime before November 3 at 7:30 p.m. Each of Ohio's 88 election boards has a secure drop box for turning in ballots and ballot requests.

Voting on Election Day will happen at polling locations based on where voters live. Because of the pandemic, it’s possible some polling locations could move from where you're accustomed. The Secretary of State’s Office has a handy tool for looking up where voters are supposed to cast their ballot.

Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. on Election Day. However, as long as you are already in line when that deadline hits, Ohio law requires you to be allowed to vote – so make sure you stay in line!

Dear Fellow Community Members,

I am writing to ask you to please vote yes for the Children’s Services Levy on November 3. As a foster parent for Guernsey County, I have been a witness to the challenges facing the children of our community as we see the growing crisis caused by the drug epidemic that has ravaged our community and impacted the safety of our children. Since I first began my journey as a foster parent in 2010, we have seen the number of children in foster or kinship care, in our county more than double at a rate of 265%. The costs of maintaining their placements has increased 278% during the past 10 years. To help keep up with the rising costs of helping to meet the increasing needs of these sons and daughters of our community, a 2.9 mil levy is desperately needed. This would cost the owner of a $100,000 property an increased 14 cents per day. Think about that, less than a quarter of pocket change could make a world of difference for these kids! Remember, healthy, safe children are the hope for a positive future for Cambridge and Guernsey County! Thank you so much for your vote on November 3!

God Bless,

R. Alex Mullen
Guernsey County Foster Parent

Did you know??
Guernsey County Children Services has our own foster care network. We license both family and treatment foster homes. We host our own preservice training which is free to attend. We do not charge for our foster and adoptive home studies. For more information on how you can become a foster parent for our agency you can call Elissa Mallett at 740-439-5555 or email her at [email protected]

We need people who are willing to take children of all ages. We especially need families who are willing to accept teenagers and sibling groups

Did you know?? Here’s the 2020 Ohio election info 🇺🇸✅👍🏻💙

• Early voting and mail-in voting begins:
Oct. 6, 2020
• Deadline to request absentee ballot:
Oct. 31, 2020
• Early voting and mail-in voting ends:
Nov. 2, 2020
• General election: Nov. 3, 2020

Did you know our community can call Guernsey County Children Services if they have children in their home and do a REQUEST FOR SERVICES? A request for service is when a parent or guardian has a need for assistance (such as help paying rent 🏚 or a utility bill). The parent would need to first explore assistance through other community services, and our assistance would be dependent upon the seriousness of the issue, safety risk to the children and our agency's funds 💸 at that time. However, helping a family solve a barrier like this, helps prevent those children from coming into our care. Doing a request for service DOES NOT mean the family then has an open case with us💙 ✅👍🏻💙

Did you know? We work with local agencies to refer families for the services they may need from mental health to addiction to developmental disabilities and more! It takes a village to raise our future generations and we’re committed to doing our part ✅👍🏻💙

Did you know??? Don’t want to get stuck in line on Nov 3rd, but want to vote in person, starting Oct. 6 you can vote early, in-person at your County Board of Elections office. 🇺🇸✅👍🏻💙 With the country still in the midst of a pandemic, you can still vote-by-mail.

What a great turnout yesterday for the Fall Fest in downtown Cambridge 🎃🍁 our community support has been such a blessing!! Thank you 🙏🏻 please remember to vote for our levy so we can continue to serve, educate, & protect the children of Guernsey County ✅👍🏻💙

Join us on Main Street for an exciting fall day with hay wagon rides, test drive golf carts courtesy of Mid Ohio Golf Car, pumpkin 🎃 painting, craft vendor, and more!! This exciting fall day is filled with shopping local, family fun! 10/3 11-3 🍂🍁 ✅👍🏻💙

Did you know?? Our caseworker staff have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree & they participate in CEU trainings totaling 1072.75 hours in 2019 😳 They train while handling a full caseload. OH recommends 12-14 cases per worker!

Come see us in historic downtown Cambridge 10/3/20 11:00-3:00 as we celebrate Fall Ya’ll 🍁🍂🎃 local vendors, hayrides, & more! We’ll have Levy info on hand to share with you 💙✅👍🏻

Contact our staff or message us on here for your very own yard sign in support of the replacement Levy on the 2020 ballot!! 💙✅👍🏻