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DePelchin Children’s Center

Shared services for child welfare operations

Transportation Supervisor

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Texas, USA
In PersonWork locations will be assigned in Regions 6A and/or 6B; regular travel across Harris County and the 12-county service region is required.
Vehicle Operation & Delivery

About the job

Requirements
  • A minimum of five years of experience in the child welfare field, including Preparation for Adult Living, Local Permanency Services, Foster Care, Conservatorship, or Family-Based Services.
  • At least three years of supervisory or management experience leading staff, overseeing case workers, or overseeing supervisory units.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work with diverse individuals.
  • Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to manage multiple programs, responsibilities, and deadlines.
  • Strong critical-thinking, assessment, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work independently while fostering collaboration across departments.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Windows, web-based applications, case management systems, and online research and search tools.
  • Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and appropriately safeguard client and agency information.
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and team-building skills, with the ability to foster hope-centered practices.
  • Reliable transportation is required.
Responsibilities
  • Provide day-to-day supervision, coaching, and development of transportation staff using a hope-centered approach that promotes accountability, professional growth, and quality service delivery.
  • Manage daily transportation and visitation operations, including service requests, staff assignments, schedules, workloads, leave coverage, and resource needs.
  • Ensure children, youth, and families receive safe, timely, reliable, respectful, and culturally responsive transportation and visitation services that support family connections, access to services, placement stability, and positive outcomes.
  • Ensure assigned staff appropriately observe or supervise parent-child visits, document services, and promptly communicate safety, behavioral, or well-being concerns.
  • Provide guidance and resolve scheduling conflicts, transportation barriers, behavioral concerns, safety issues, missed services, and other service disruptions in a timely, solution-focused manner.
  • Ensure incidents, accidents, complaints, missed services, and safety concerns are documented, communicated, escalated, and addressed in accordance with established requirements.
  • Monitor transportation logs, visitation notes, client-contact records, mileage reports, forms, and system entries for accuracy, completeness, and timely documentation.
  • Ensure staff maintain required driver qualifications and comply with vehicle-safety requirements, agency procedures, confidentiality standards, and applicable transportation requirements.
  • Monitor staff and program performance through direct observation, record reviews, performance data, participant feedback, and other quality-assurance activities; address identified performance or service-delivery concerns.
  • Collect and analyze program data and prepare administrative, operational, and performance reports to support program oversight and continuous improvement.
  • Develop and implement training, procedures, tools, and resources that strengthen staff competency, consistency, safety, and hope-centered service delivery.
  • Coordinate vehicle and transportation resources, including maintenance, inspections, insurance documentation, fuel usage, and related operational needs.
  • Collaborate with children, families, caregivers, Texans Together staff, providers, and community partners to coordinate services, resolve barriers, and support child- and family-centered outcomes.
  • Promote trauma-informed, culturally responsive, family-centered, and hope-centered practices that preserve client dignity, voice, individual strengths, and confidentiality throughout service delivery.

About the company

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DePelchin Children’s Center

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DePelchin Family Services provides backend administrative support to child welfare organizations as a trusted partner. Through shared services—from finance and human resources to IT and compliance—it centralizes operations to raise capacity, improve efficiency, ensure accountability, and support long-term sustainability so that children and families receive high-quality care. Their approach distinguishes them by offering a stable, scalable back-office solution focused on governance and efficiency rather than frontline services, helping agencies run better and stay funded. The goal is to help client agencies deliver consistently strong care by strengthening operations and sustainability.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Houston, Texas

Founded

1892

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What believers are saying

  • In 2026, Texans Together enters Stage I, expanding case management across Harris County.
  • Valour Foundation's $3 million grant expands counseling access through 2028.
  • CenterPoint Energy funding and school supplies reached 1,450 children in 2025.

What critics are saying

  • The April 2024 Elkins closure cut 57 jobs, signaling pressure on residential margins.
  • DFPS contract execution through April 2030 ties growth to state procurement performance.
  • Loss of Region 6 award in 2030 would sever the agency's core foster-care engine.

What makes DePelchin Children’s Center unique

  • DePelchin won DFPS Region 6 Community-Based Care, making Texans Together a five-year lead agency.
  • Its 2025 Junior League volunteer building quadruples donation, training, and volunteer capacity on Memorial Drive.
  • The Center combines foster care, counseling, residential treatment, and kinship support under one Houston campus.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

7%

2 year growth

7%
Community Impact Newspaper
Jul 25th, 2025
Long-time Houston nonprofit for children expands services, opens new building

DePelchin Children's Center opened a new volunteer services building in July to expand the organization's outreach capacity and support more children in Houston and around the state.

Intelligence360 News
Mar 26th, 2024
Depelchin Children'S Center To Spend $5,000,000.00 To Occupy 20,275 Square Feet Of Space In Houston Texas.

Depelchin Children’s Center to spend $5,000,000.00 to occupy 20,275 square feet of space in Houston Texas. Depelchin Children’s Center to spend $5,000,000.00 to occupy 20,275 square feet of space in Houston Texas.Houston, Texas — According to state and local development sources, Depelchin Children’s Center plans to invest $5,000,000.00 to build out 20,275 square feet of new space in Houston. The company plans to occupy the new space at 112 Bethje Street in Houston, on or about June 1, 2025. According to the company website OUR VISION We envision a world in which every child is safe and healthy. OUR MISSION We strengthen the lives of children by enhancing their mental health and physical well-being. DePelchin Childrens Center believes that every child deserves to be safe and healthy

DePelchin Children's Center
Nov 9th, 2023
Groups launch Help Me Grow Gulf Coast

DePelchin and other organizations gathered November 2 to launch Help Me Grow Gulf Coast, aimed at providing comprehensive support and resources for families with young children in the Gulf Coast region.

Forward Times
Sep 27th, 2023
DePelchin Children's Center Launches Pilot to Serve Families After CPS Investigations Close

DePelchin Children's Center, with generous support from two Houston donors, is launching a pilot program focused on preventing repeated instances of child abuse and neglect.

DePelchin Children's Center
Sep 13th, 2023
Major gift from Project Shine, Inc. will broaden DePelchin's reach

DePelchin Children's Center will expand the reach and impact of its services for children and families with a $5.9 million gift from Project Shine, Inc., a nonprofit organization supported by Houston philanthropists Lara and Bill Perkins.