Foster Care Family Worker

Job Title:

Foster Care Family Worker

FSA Status: Exempt

Supervisor: Foster Care Programs Manager

Revision: January 2026

Primary Department: FCA - Foster Care

Salary Range: $47,000 to $53,000

This role is an important lifeline for youth and families who find themselves navigating the child welfare system, often with very little preparation or support. This role connects with families to guide them through the Foster Care and Kinship Care licensing process, to make sure the needs of the family are being met, and to be an educator and empathetic ear.

This role is a good fit for someone who has excellent communication and advocacy skills, assessment writing skills, ability to track and meet complex licensing standards and deadlines, and has strong personal and professional boundaries. Education and experience in social work or related fields, child welfare and family social services is desired.

At EVOLVE Family Services, we fight to build a world where everyone has nurturing, permanent, and supportive familial relationships. We accomplish this by connecting youth with adults, by giving adults the tools to succeed, and by giving youth a voice in a system that has been developed from a place of oppression. We serve youth and families across Minnesota and western Wisconsin, often within and alongside the child welfare system.

We serve all, regardless of race, religion, age, economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or marital status. EVOLVE is an antiracist, anti-oppressive agency, and expects our workforce to hold one another accountable for continued growth. Please our standards of antiracism and anti-oppression HERE.

Social Awareness: Empathetically internalize the perspectives of others from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Understands social and ethical norms for behavior and recognizes the pulse and vibes of the community. Recognizes power dynamics and underlying societal influences on behaviors.

Emotional Maturity: Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills. Utilizes non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance. Accurately assesses personal feelings, strengths, and limitations and how they impact relationships.

Communication: Listens and expresses self effectively and in a manner that reflects a true understanding of the audience. Seeks first to understand others' point of view and remains calm in challenging situations. Listens to understand meanings; communicates effectively orally and in writing.

Self-Management: Ability to regulate one’s behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a productive way. Uses mastery of self-control to manage one’s time, workflow, and communication. Desires to produce, and effectively delivers on assigned priorities. Takes direction and moves forward in execution.

• Follow government and agency requirements to assess families’ appropriateness for foster care licensure.
• Engage with community members to increase awareness of foster care needs through tabling and outreach.
• Gather information on families’ personal history, relationships, experience, traditions, health, trauma experiences, support network, strengths, and overall fit for providing foster care or kinship care.
• Complete home study narratives, writing detailed notes and summaries supporting the licensing process.
• Support youth indirectly through support of caregivers, oftentimes related caregivers in kinship families.
• Make recommendations for placement of children based on assessment of family capacity, skills and abilities.
• Discuss the licensing process and requirements with adults who are seeking to be foster care providers.
• Complete licensing updates, placement reports, and other necessary documentation required.
• Facilitate discussion and education around identity, transracial complexities, and trauma-informed care.
• Participate in recruitment of additional foster parents through outreach efforts and community engagement.
• Facilitate home visits with clients 1-3 times / month to review progress of placements and to support the family.
• Provide consultation, assessment, and resource referral…