Human Services Technical Assistant Specialist (HS-TAS)

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION The Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) is a national leader in mental health services for the adoption, foster, and kinship care community. We envision a world where every child and family connected to adoption, foster, and kinship care thrives, embracing our individual and collective diversity. We improve the well\-being and permanence of children and their families by delivering adoption\-competent mental health services, training a national network of professionals, and informing the field through research and advocacy. We work nationally to build the capacity of States, Tribes and territories to create competent systems and service arrays and improve access to those services. For over 25 years, C.A.S.E. has combined best practices and innovation to provide specialized individual and family therapy, psychiatric services and support groups, education, and training. We have become a local, national, and international resource for adoptive, kinship, and foster families and the professionals who support them. C.A.S.E. set out in 2021 on a new strategic direction to grow our clinical and training programs into our Academy for Elevating Clinical Practice in Permanency. It is an exciting time as we grow our evidenced\-based adoption\-competent clinical model and our accredited, award\-winning training programs nationwide.   C.A.S.E has an annual budget of $14M and a staff of 70\+ employees. National Center\-Human Services Technical Assistant Specialist (HS\-TAS) ABOUT THE POSITION The National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services is a federally funded cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/ , Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. The National Center is a federal grant issued to C.A.S.E. Adoption Support Center \& Services \| C.A.S.E. and partners with national system leaders, parents, caregivers, and young adults with lived expertise to strengthen systems, expand workforce capacity, and improve access to adoption competent mental health services for children, youth, and families impacted by child welfare. This position requires a minimum of 10\+years of national experience in child welfare and or mental health systems providing cross\-system technical assistance or consultation scaling programs or initiatives. The Human Services Technical Assistant Specialist (HS\-TAS) reports to the National Center Director of Technical Assistance and works closely with National Center staff, partner organizations, the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) team, and child welfare and behavioral health leaders in assigned states, tribes, and territories (STTs). This position supports systems change, implementation, organizational capacity building, and cross\-system collaboration efforts designed to advance adoption of competency and strengthen behavioral health and child welfare i