Dustin's Place is hiring: Director Of Community Care in South Bend

Director of Community Care

📍 South Bend, IN

🕒 Full-Time, Salaried

📅 Application Deadline: December 31

Dustin’s Place provides compassionate, peer-based grief support for children, teens, and families. Our mission is simple and powerful: no one grieves alone. Through school-based groups, community partnerships, and family programming, we create safe spaces where grieving children can express their grief, build coping skills, and find connection.

We are reopening our search for a Director of Community Care to help expand our children’s grief-support programming throughout South Bend.

The Director of Community Care plays a key leadership role in expanding Dustin’s Place’s reach within South Bend schools and community organizations. This position facilitates children’s grief-support groups, builds and maintains strong school and community partnerships, and oversees part-time Community-Based Child Grief Specialists.

This role is best suited for someone with prior experience working directly with children, ideally in group settings, who is passionate about community-based support and grief care.

• Facilitate children’s grief-support groups in South Bend schools and community organizations (approximately 15–18 groups per week)
• Lead evening children’s groups at Dustin’s Place in Plymouth
• Serve as the primary liaison for South Bend schools and community partners
• Collaborate with the Program Director to implement age-appropriate, research-based programming
• Oversee and support 3–4 part-time Community-Based Child Grief Specialists
• Represent Dustin’s Place at community meetings and outreach events
• Participate in staff meetings, training, and organizational retreats
  

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, child development, education, counseling, psychology, or a related field
• 3–5 years of experience working directly with children, ideally in community-based or school-based settings
• Previous experience facilitating groups with children or youth strongly preferred
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills
• Reliable transportation and ability to travel throughout South Bend
• Flexibility for some evening work
• Alignment with Dustin’s Place values: compassionate, trustworthy, community-focused, inclusive, and safe
  

• Experience supporting children through grief, loss, trauma, or major life transitions
• Experience working in or partnering with schools or youth-serving organizations
• Comfort representing an organization in the community and building partnerships
• Experience supporting part-time staff, interns, or volunteers
  

• Annual salary of $50,000 - $55,000
• Physical Wellness Package, including LifePlex Fitness Forum membership
• No-cost telehealth and telemental health for employees and dependents
• Continuing education and professional license renewal covered by Dustin’s Place
• Additional benefits reviewed during onboarding
  

Please submit a resume and cover letter to info@dustinsplace.org

📅 Application Deadline: December 31

• This position has reopened due to a change in circumstances.