FEATURED JOB OPENING: Group Home House Parents -- $3500 Bonus & Relocation Assistance Offered - Tucson, AZ

Posted: 9/20/2025

Live-In House Parents, Youth Group Home

PETS considered on an individual basis; determined by contract client (Arizona DCS) and if appropriate house is available.

GAP Ministries, a 501c3 social services nonprofit serving Southern Arizona since 1999, stands in the gap to bring help to children, healing to families, and hope to our community. Our mission is to serve children from hard places of neglect, trauma, and abuse. Our cause is to love the orphan by showing them love and acceptance and to provide them with hope and healing. We want to find ways to reach these children in all aspects of their lives, including Social and safety, educational, mental health, and spiritual issues. Children who have experienced trauma live with ruptured hopes, trust, and dreams.

What You Will Do:

• Lovingly care for the needs of the children and model a Christ-centered character for children.
• Work as a team with your husband/wife and your house support statt to create a safe, nurturing environment for children who come from difficult backgrounds.
• Creatively teach basic life skills and Christian values through positive behavior responses and engagement with children, doing homework, cleaning house, doing community activities, etc. either as a family, or one-on-one, as the needs require.
• Complete many of the daily tasks you might take care of in your own home, from meal prep and laundry to transportation and housework to homework to model to the children a healthy family and welcoming home.
• Initiate and follow a daily schedule to create structure and stability for the children.
• Collaborate with team members on community activities, as families or adults only.
• Of course, there is plenty of paperwork.

Essential Skills We Need From You:

• Be physically fit to keep up with the children, home, and paperwork!
• Be self-aware so you are emotionally able to display warmth and able to enjoy and be comfortable with active, occasionally frustrated, and disorganized children.
• Know how to turn on and navigate a computer and use a smart phone to request your vacation leave, submit reports, respond to email, and follow a Google Calendar for yourself and your house.
• Be willing to engage in our community and participate in outings, trainings, and staff activities.
• Embrace our mission and love our children placed under your supervision.
• Be flexible and have a great sense of humor in the worst of situations!

How Much Will You Earn: $80,000/year/couple (IE: $40,000 annually per person) based on a 48 hour work week (3-days at 16 hours/day). Out of State relocation assistance bonus is negotiable. After experience with our team there is a possibility to move to 4 days a week for $50,000 annually per person. Currently offering an incentive bonus of $3,500.00.

When You Will Work:  3 days on with 4 days off weekly, you must work weekends so you can enjoy family time and church attendance. You’ll also receive seventeen days of paid leave just in the first year.

What Will GAP Ministries Do For You:

• Provide:
  • FBI fingerprint clearance check and Card
  • Medical and Mental Health physicals and Drug screen
  • Bi-Annual CPR, AED & First Aid Certification
  • Annual De-Escalation Certification
  • Paid training
  • Free company swag
  • You accrue up to 40 hours of Paid Sick Leave annually to use as you want
  • $600 annually to shop our Community Warehouse and Treasures & More resale store
  • COSTCO Warehouse Gold Membership
• Full Time Employees also receive:
  • Your choice from 3 Medical PPO Plans: a traditional plan and 2 Free HSA plans to choose from
  • Employer Paid Dental (Dependents are eligible for insurance plans at employee’s cost)
  • Employer Paid Vision (Dependents are eligible for insurance plans at employee’s cost)
  • Employer Paid $10,000 Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life Insurance options for self and dependents
  • Additional 12 days of Paid Leave (PTO) accrued upon hire, increases after 1st, 3rd & 5th year
  • Access to employer matching retirement savings plan and retirement planning resources through Principal

What We Need From You:

• To be at least 22 years old in order to drive your home’s 15 passenger van
• Provide at least a high school diploma or equivalency diploma (GED), and one year experience working, or volunteering, with children; all must be verifible in writing
• Successfully pass FBI and interstate criminal history background checks promptly
• Possess a valid US driver license and a good 5-year driving record
• Drive a 15 passenger van to transport children

GAP Ministries is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free workplace and requires drug screening of all new employees as well as random screenings to ensure enforcement of this policy. Our policy also includes zero tolerance for marijuana; although medical and recreational marijuana use is lawful in Arizona, GAP Ministries must comply with all state and federal laws. Since federal law prohibits the use of marijuana, employees are prohibited from consuming marijuana in any of its various forms.

More About Our Group Home Ministry

GAP Ministries began by caring for foster children in the home of our founders who became the first house parents. The homes are called “SPLASH” Houses, which stands for Spirit-Powered-Love-Aggressively-Shaping-Hearts. Over the years depending on the need, GAP has operated a number of family style group residential homes where the love of God is shared with the children and teens each day. Each home is run by house parent couples who care for up to 10 children. The larger capacity of our homes often allows for sibling groups who come into foster care to stay together while they are away from their parents.

We call our group homes SPLASH Houses. It stands for "Spirit Powered Love Aggressively Shaping Hearts.”

More About GAP Ministries (visit gapmin.com)

‍CHILDREN - GAP Ministries began by caring for foster children in the home of our founders, and that aspect of the ministry has grown over the years, depending on the need, from 9-14 family model group homes where the love of God is shared with the children and teens each day. GAP also licenses and trains individuals and couples to care for foster children to increase the number of homes where these children can live and thrive while away from their own family.

FAMILY - Children are at the heart of GAP, but if we continually care for abused and neglected children but never help their families, it becomes a never-ending cycle. If we can begin to heal these families we can change the direction of their lives and generationally impact them going forward. To heal the root causes of the foster care crisis, GAP has programs to provide supervised visitation and parent aid for the birth parents. It is our desire and goal to see healthy restoration of families when possible

COMMUNITY - Breaking cycles of poverty and creating transformed communities. Tucson is a beautiful city, but unfortunately there are many children, women, and men who are really struggling. One in four of our residents are below the poverty line. GAP's Community Warehouse reclaims food and new items from major retailers that would otherwise end up in landfills, and redistributes them to individuals in need through nonprofit partnerships.

GAP Ministries is all about impacting One Life. Because we believe each and every person matters to God, we strive to lift up each child we care for and each individual we serve to become all God made them to be and live out their best life.