Job Opportunity - Contract
Licensed Social Worker/Parent Educator to Facilitate Support Groups
Seeking: Licensed social worker, counselor, or parent educator to facilitate weekly peer-based support meetings serving grief and loss needs of mothers whose parental rights have been terminated.
About the opportunity
Details: Bellis will contract with a facilitator up to 2.5 hours a week at $50/hour. The meetings will generally run for 1.5 hours. Additional time allows for preparation and evaluation for each meeting. {Travel time is not included in contracted hours.}
Location: Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee
Timing: Starting as soon as possible. Cohort meets on Wednesday evening from 7-8:30pm
Flexibility: Two facilitators run the cohort, with the ability to have substitutes and/or occasionally run the cohort solo.
Reporting Relationships: This position reports directly to Kelly Tronstad, Executive Director of Bellis, and will have collaborative relationships with other involved professionals.
The ideal candidate will have:
Facilitation experience with a population of individuals managing ambiguous grief/loss related to family complexities desired
Expert understanding of termination of parental rights, adoption, and foster care preferred
Drive for orchestrating healing conversations in a peer-based and trauma-informed environment
Unbiased views related to adoption and general agreement with Bellis guiding values
Professional expertise to deliver a first-of-its-kind endeavor in support of women
About this program: Bellis facilitates compassionate, peer-support groups for mothers whose parental rights have been terminated. Bellis creates a network of support among birth mothers so they can, together, address emotional isolation, shame and (often) uncertainty about the process they have endured.
About Bellis: Founded in 1983, Bellis is a nonprofit with no political or religious affiliation or agenda. Grounded in 40 years of knowledge gained from experience within the adoption community, Bellis’ primary goals are:
To use our expertise in the complex work of grief and trauma support to serve women who have historically and institutionally been marginalized because their children are parented by others.
To earn the trust of women who are disenfranchised, offering programs where they can together build resilience and greater emotional wellness.
To establish financial sustainability for our organization through earned income while retaining the integrity of our programs and using data and participants’ lived experiences to guide growth.
Our efforts are adjacent to the adoption and foster care sector. Bellis is independent of child-placing agencies, child welfare systems and courts.
Applicants are encouraged to contact Bellis Executive Director Kelly Tronstad for more information at kellyt@mybellis.org or 612-817-3635.
