Position Summary
Houseparent Couple – Covenant Children's Home
Covenant Children's Home is seeking a compassionate, dependable, and spiritually grounded Houseparents to provide daily care, supervision, guidance, and encouragement to children and youth living in our group foster home.
The Houseparents play a vital role in creating a safe, stable, nurturing, and Christ-centered home environment where each child is valued, respected, and given the opportunity to heal, grow, and thrive. This position goes beyond supervision—it is about building trusting relationships, modeling healthy behavior, establishing consistent routines and boundaries, and helping children develop the skills and confidence they need for a successful future.
The ideal candidates are patient, emotionally mature, energetic, and compassionate, with a genuine desire to serve children who have experienced trauma, loss, instability, or other difficult circumstances. The Houseparents will work closely with foster care professionals, case managers, therapists, families, schools, churches, and other community partners to support each child's individual needs and goals.
Essential Responsibilities
Provide a Safe and Nurturing Home
- Provide attentive, compassionate, and consistent care to children and youth residing in the home.
- Create a warm, structured, and welcoming family environment where children feel safe, valued, and respected.
- Maintain appropriate supervision and ensure the safety and security of all residents.
- Establish and maintain predictable daily routines, expectations, household rules, and appropriate boundaries.
- Serve as a positive adult role model and demonstrate integrity, patience, responsibility, and healthy communication.
Support Children's Emotional and Behavioral Development
- Build positive, trusting relationships with children while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
- Use trauma-informed and developmentally appropriate approaches when responding to challenging behaviors.
- Teach and reinforce healthy coping skills, communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, personal responsibility, and social skills.
- Recognize and respond appropriately to emotional distress, behavioral escalation, and crisis situations.
- Utilize de-escalation and crisis-intervention techniques while maintaining the child's dignity and safety.
- Encourage children to recognize their strengths, develop confidence, and work toward age-appropriate independence.
Provide Daily Living and Childcare Support
- Assist children with daily routines, including meals, personal hygiene, school preparation, transportation, appointments, recreation, and household responsibilities.
- Prepare and serve meals while encouraging healthy eating habits and age-appropriate participation in household activities.
- Coordinate and supervise homework, school activities, extracurricular activities, appointments, and community outings as assigned.
- Encourage children to participate in recreation, hobbies, service opportunities, and positive social activities.
- Teach practical life skills such as organization, personal responsibility, household care, budgeting, and independent living skills.
Faith-Based Care and Spiritual Development
- Help cultivate a Christ-centered home environment consistent with the mission and values of Covenant Children's Home.
- Model Christian character through compassion, honesty, patience, forgiveness, accountability, and servant leadership.
- Encourage age-appropriate participation in prayer, Bible study, church activities, worship, and other spiritual-development opportunities.
- Support each child's spiritual development in a manner that is compassionate, respectful, and appropriate to the child's age, circumstances, and individual needs.
- Partner with church and community members who support the mission of Covenant Children's Home.
Collaboration and Case Support
- Work collaboratively with case managers, social workers, therapists, foster care professionals, schools, healthcare providers, biological/foster families, and other members of the child's support team.
- Participate in care planning and communicate observations regarding each child's progress, strengths, needs, and concerns.
- Support individualized treatment, behavioral, educational, and permanency goals.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality regarding children, families, and agency information.
- Advocate for the needs and well-being of each child while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
Documentation and Accountability
- Maintain accurate and timely records regarding daily activities, behaviors, incidents, appointments, medications, and other required information.
- Complete incident reports and other documentation according to agency policies and licensing requirements.
- Administer medications only as permitted by applicable regulations, training, and agency policy, and accurately document administration.
- Follow all child welfare, licensing, safety, confidentiality, medication, transportation, and emergency procedures.
- Attend required staff meetings, trainings, supervision, and professional-development activities.
Qualifications & Skills
The ideal candidates will demonstrate:
- A genuine passion for serving children and youth in foster care.
- Commitment to the mission and Christian values of Covenant Children's Home.
- Previous experience working with children, youth, foster care, residential care, childcare, education, behavioral health, social services, or a related field preferred.
- Ability to establish healthy, trusting relationships while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to remain calm, patient, and emotionally regulated during challenging or crisis situations.
- Understanding of—or willingness to learn—trauma-informed care and the impact of adverse childhood experiences.
- Ability to provide consistent structure, supervision, accountability, and encouragement.
- Ability to work effectively with children from diverse backgrounds and with varying emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs.
- Strong organizational and documentation skills.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.
- Basic computer proficiency and ability to complete required electronic or written documentation.
- Current CPR/First Aid certification or willingness to obtain certification.
- Ability to successfully complete required background checks, screening, training, and licensing requirements.
What Makes a Successful Houseparent?
A successful Houseparent understands that consistency is care. Children who have experienced instability need adults who show up, follow through, listen, set healthy boundaries, and remain present even when circumstances are difficult.
The Houseparents should be people who can celebrate a child's accomplishments, patiently navigate difficult days, provide structure without being harsh, offer compassion without sacrificing accountability, and demonstrate through everyday actions what a safe and healthy home can look like.
Benefits, time commitment to the role, and time off can be discussed at interview.
Above all, the Houseparents should have a servant's heart and a genuine desire to make a lasting difference in the life of a child.
Why Join Covenant Children's Home?
At Covenant Children's Home, we believe every child deserves safety, stability, belonging, hope, and the opportunity to experience a loving home environment. Our Houseparents have the unique opportunity to influence children's lives not simply through programs and services, but through the everyday experience of living in a caring, structured, Christ-centered home.
This is meaningful work for individuals who want to combine professional caregiving with faith, mentorship, relationship-building, and service.
If you are compassionate, dependable, spiritually grounded, and ready to invest in the life of a child, we invite you to consider joining the Covenant Children's Home team.
Pay: $60,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
