Family and Community Engagement Specialist
Summary The Family and Community Engagement Specialist will recruit families and support providers, families, and the community by providing; parent cafés, resources, referral services, parent training, parent advocate home visits, provider updates and technical assistance to their caseload of child care providers around parent engagement and parent & community consumer education. Duties
- Recruit families and identify opportunities to reach families with resources related to:
-Locating early education programs to meet family and children’s needs
-Potential foster/adoptive caregivers
-Protective Factors including Parent Cafés and Concrete Supports
-Fully implement the CCRC mission through a caseload model of service delivery and meaningful relationships.
- Maintain an accurate database (Work Life Systems) of all providers on your caseload within the CCRC service delivery area. Must ensure provider updates are completed every six months.
- Refer families to providers in database and contact parents to verify program effectiveness, questions or additional information. Referrals are emailed, mailed or provided over the phone.
- Provide Parent Advocate Home Visits that empowering the parent through:
-Educating parents re: children’s physical and emotional development and realistic expectations of child behavior
-Role-modeling appropriate parenting techniques including positive communication, listening and age-appropriate limit setting and discipline
-Enhancement of home-management skills such as, budgeting, organization and nutrition
-Support in times of crisis
- Provide services to families related to agency grants or projects (i.e. strengthening families, Parent Café’s, Parenting Wisely, Triple P, Foster Families, Trainings etc.)
- Help educate families, and community organizations on child development issues, nutrition, and other CCRC services through outreach, consultation, meetings, and newsletters.
- Contribute to leadership in the community concerning advocacy for quality child care.
- Represent the agency at various meetings as assigned.
- Assume other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
- Identify innovative strategies to continuously challenge all CCRC team members to make 212 degrees their personal target.
- Bachelor’s Degree in early care and education or closely related field preferred with a minimum of 2 years’ experience in early care and education
- Ability to coordinate/conduct small group sessions
- Knowledge of parent engagement planning and implementation
- Ability to collect, compile, and analyze data
- Ability to work independently as well as a team leader and team member
- Excellent communication and organization skills including social media and blogging
- Speaks Spanish
- Masters Degree
- over 5 years experience in foster, kinship or adoption services
• Medical (CCRC pays 70%), Life insurance (paid by employer), 403b Retirement, Sick Leave, Vacation Time, Hybrid work after 3months
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