Job fair comes as agency was a regular target of criticism for mishandling investigations and failing to get troubled youths into the right places quickly.
Job seeker Valerie Robinson, left, talks to Illinois Department of Children and Family Services community partnership specialist Robbi Dillard at a job fair at the Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club in Chicago on March 29, 2024. Kristina Permitin traveled 90 miles from Roscoe, Illinois, to a job fair in a spacious basketball gymnasium on Chicago’s West Side to see what working at the state’s child welfare agency was all about.
Permitin was among a couple hundred people who attended the employment expo at the Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club to check out opportunities from DCFS and other government agencies, including the Illinois State Police, Chicago Fire Department and U.S. Postal Service. About three hours into the event on Friday, DCFS chief of staff Jassen Strokosch said he’d spoken in the past to people with teaching, law enforcement and social work backgrounds who didn’t feel fulfilled in their work and wanted to change careers into the child welfare field to fill that void.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services recruiter Stanisha Lang, left, talks to job seeker Angela Zambrano at a job fair at the Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club in Chicago on March 29, 2024. At Friday’s event, many attendees with different levels of experience, including a high school student, stopped by the DCFS table to talk with volunteers about a possible career with the agency.
Axandria Mason said she worked before in a residential treatment facility, helping teenage boys who were wards of the state, and also at Catholic Charities assisting homeless mothers and babies. She said she’s been interested in working for DCFS for a year.
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