DSS Intern - Family Services Specialist (Summer)(Job Id 17453)

 Session: Summer (May– August)

Position Title: Intern - Family Services Specialist

Supervisor: Iyonne Jewett

Agency: Department of Social Services

Location: Eagle Butte 

Position Description:

This position’s primary purpose is to assist Family Services Specialists with families whose children have been reported or identified as being unsafe and who may be placed out of their parent’s home. These duties may include direct interventions with children and families through a wide range of services. Responsibilities may include receiving reports from the community regarding allegations of child maltreatment, assessments with families regarding allegations of child maltreatment, interventions with families to address change needed to secure child safety in their homes, recruitment and support of foster and relative homes caring for maltreated children, and the matching of resource families for children unable to return to their birth families.

Qualifications: 

Applicant must be a full-time student at a college, university or technical institute at the time they apply. By the start of the internship, the applicant should have at least a sophomore standing or currently be enrolled at a technical institute and have completed one year (nine months).

Preference will be given to applicants with a junior standing, South Dakota residents and students of South Dakota institutions.

Coursework or experience in a human service related field, social work, sociology, psychology, child development or public administration is preferred.

Minimum Salary: $17.19