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Family worker resume examples from 2026

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a family worker resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in family worker-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These tips will help you demonstrate why you are the perfect fit for the family worker position.

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List the right project manager skills

Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:

  1. Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
  2. Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
  3. Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
  4. Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
  5. Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some family worker interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a family worker resume:

  • Social Work
  • Foster Care
  • Child Care
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Community Resources
  • Substance Abuse
  • Child Development
  • Intake Assessments
  • Support Services
  • Risk Factors
  • Child Abuse
  • Mental Health Issues
  • DHS
  • Social Service Agencies
  • Family Services
  • Family Assessments
  • Community Agencies
  • Community Services
  • Community Events
  • Crisis Situations
  • Community Outreach
  • Family Development
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Parent Participation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Parent Education
  • Parent Involvement
  • DCF
  • Financial Assistance
  • Family Strengths

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write family worker experience bullet points

Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

Here are examples from great family worker resumes:

Work history example #1

Family Worker

Young Adult Institute

  • Provided 1:1 in-home rehabilitation service to people with developmental disabilities
  • Assisted in planning and implementation of IEP's, and goal setting plans.
  • Provided rapid engagement with referring DCF workers and clients.
  • Maintained contact with foster families, ORR Intakes, DHS/ICE and USCCB as needed.
  • Conducted individual and group counseling services and basic case management.

Work history example #2

Family Worker

Franklin County

  • Assisted families in obtaining supportive services such as, counseling, educational resources, and temporary shelter through community referrals.
  • Engaged in crisis counseling and Child Safety Planning with families.
  • Provided direct service through counseling with clients, home visits, and monitoring treatment and progress of families.
  • Conducted intakes on veterans for the Day Treatment Program.
  • Assisted with scheduling activities, medical appointments, and groups for the veterans.

Work history example #3

Family Worker

Arizonas Children Association

  • Provided in-home behavior management training and family therapy to assigned clients.
  • Participated in a DCFS statewide research project by administering and scoring a behavior rating scale for children pre-and post-family intervention.
  • Managed caseload of 20+ consumers arranging and supervising CPS visitations.
  • Trained and evaluated potential foster parents in the Arizona Partnering for Safety and Permanence-Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting curriculum.
  • Performed Suitability Assessments and Supervision for unaccompanied minors detained by DHS.

Work history example #4

Family Worker

Orchards Children's Services

  • Worked with solution focused therapeutic model for cases referred by DHS and DHHS.
  • Completed DHS Core trainings I and II.
  • Tracked attendance and addressed truancy issues, including filing truancy charges when needed.
  • Assisted with implementing guardianship, Medicaid and Food Stamps.
  • Educated the community at-large regarding HIV awareness and gender-based violence issues.

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.

If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in psychology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

2010 - 2013

Master's Degree in psychology

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2005 - 2006

Highlight your family worker certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on family worker resumes:

  1. Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)

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