Join our team

As an Advocate, you play a vital role in advancing KIDS Center’s mission to support children and families impacted by crisis and trauma. Serving as a compassionate guide, you build trusting relationships and provide clear, empathetic communication that honors each family’s unique experiences.

You will welcome families during their initial evaluation, orient them to our evaluation process, and foster an environment where children and caregivers feel safe, respected, and valued. Remain open, reflective, and responsive to the needs of the families you serve, helping to reduce fear and uncertainty while reinforcing dignity, resilience, and hope.

Throughout each case, you maintain consistent and responsive communication, offering timely updates and guiding families through complex systems with professionalism and empathy. You also collaborate with community partners to connect families with meaningful resources and represent KIDS Center in coordinated, multidisciplinary efforts, strengthening relationships across the community and ensuring families receive comprehensive, and responsive client-centered support.

What You’ll Do

• Communicate in a compassionate, unbiased, trauma-informed manner across all interactions, including during high-stress or complex situations

• Provide ongoing emotional support to children and non-offending caregivers, both in person and by phone, throughout the evaluation and potential prosecution process

• Assess needs and provide ongoing advocacy, ensuring families are connected to appropriate community resources and supported in navigating medical, legal, and child welfare systems

• Collaborate with community partners to strengthen resource connections, support coordinated care

• Perform detailed, mission-critical administrative work to support organizational effectiveness and high-quality service delivery, including maintaining accurate and timely records, ensuring data integrity, and documenting client interactions in accordance with policy and confidentiality standards

• Support case coordination and evaluation-related tasks, including assisting with intake triage, coordinating MDT communication, and supporting processes such as subpoena tracking and related documentation with accuracy, discretion, and professionalism

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in social work or related field or prior experience in a job that requires HIPAA compliance, critical decision making and collaboration with community partners and agencies.

• A combination of education and years of experience may be considered.

• Ability to maintain a professional, calm, and patient manner.

• Ability to work independently with little supervision.

• Strong communication skills.

Preferred Certification and Experience

• Direct social work support / case management experience.

• QMPH/A Certification or ability to become certified

• Bilingual in Spanish

Position Details

Type: Full-time, Hourly

Schedule: KIDS Center Hours are M-F 8-5 based on client and program needs

Location: Bend, OR, on-site work at KIDS Center / Mobile Clinic

Compensation: $53,500 – $58,000 annually

Benefits: KIDS Center is committed to supporting the well-being of our team so you can do this important work in a sustainable way. We offer:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision and life insurance

• 23 days of PTO to start in addition to 10 paid holidays

• 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match

• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities, including support for evidence-based practices

• A supportive, collaborative, and mission-driven work environment

To Apply

If your qualifications, experience, and goals align with this position, please send a resume and cover letter to hrinfo@kidscenter.org.

As a Forensic Interviewer, you play a vital role in advancing KIDS Center’s mission to lead our region’s response to child abuse. In this role, you conduct developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, research-based, and legally sound forensic interviews of children referred for child abuse evaluations.

You will help create a safe, respectful, and child-focused environment where children and caregivers are treated with dignity, care, and professionalism. Through careful listening, neutral interviewing practices, and objective documentation, you support high-quality assessments while preserving the integrity of the investigative process.

Throughout each case, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary team partners, including law enforcement, DHS Child Welfare, medical providers, mental health professionals, and Family Advocates. You will gather caregiver history and debrief, support the evaluation process, participate in case consultation and peer review, and contribute to coordinated, evidence-based services for children and families impacted by abuse.

This position requires emotional steadiness, sound judgment, strong communication, cultural humility, and the ability to work with children, caregivers, and professionals in sensitive and high-stress situations. The Forensic Interviewer represents KIDS Center with professionalism, integrity, and commitment to our values of trust, care, integrity, empathy, impact, humility, excellence, equity, and teamwork.

What You’ll Do

• Conduct developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, research-based, and legally sound forensic interviews of children in accordance with Oregon Forensic Interviewing Guidelines, National Children’s Alliance standards, and applicable legal requirements.

• Use neutral, forensically sound interviewing techniques that support child-focused, evidence-based assessments and preserve the integrity of the investigative process.

• Provide case-related observations and professional input based on knowledge of child development, trauma, memory, disclosure processes, child abuse dynamics, and evidence-based forensic interviewing practices.

• Conduct post-evaluation debriefings with parents and caregivers, provide education regarding the evaluation process, identify relevant support needs, and communicate follow-up recommendations or referrals to Family Support Specialists, as appropriate.

• Provide testimony in grand jury, criminal, juvenile, or civil proceedings as requested and appropriate.

• Represent KIDS Center with professionalism, ethical conduct, and commitment to our mission, values, and multidisciplinary partnerships.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, child development, criminal justice, or a related field; and

• Four years of direct experience working with children, families, victims of abuse, child welfare, behavioral health, advocacy, law enforcement, or another child abuse-related profession; or

• Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, sociology, child development, criminal justice, or a related field; and

• Two years of direct experience working in a child abuse-related profession; or

• Any satisfactory combination of education, training, and experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the position.

Preferred Certification and Experience

• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.

• Experience working in a Children’s Advocacy Center or multidisciplinary team setting.

• Completion of Oregon Child Forensic Interviewing Training is preferred. Candidates who have not completed approved forensic interviewing training must complete OCFIT or another KIDS Center-approved training prior to conducting forensic interviews independently.

Position Details Type: Full-time, Hourly

Schedule: KIDS Center Hours are M-F 8 am-5 pm based on client and program needs.

Location: Bend, OR on-site work at KIDS Center / Mobile Clinic

Compensation: $60,000 – $75,000 annually

Benefits: KIDS Center is committed to supporting the well-being of our team so you can do this important work in a sustainable way. We offer:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision and life insurance

• 23 days of PTO to start in addition to 10 paid holidays

• 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match

• Ongoing professional development and training opportunities, including support for evidence-based practices

• A supportive, collaborative, and mission-driven work environment

To Apply

If your qualifications, experience, and goals align with this position, please send a resume and cover letter to hrinfo@kidscenter.org.