Healthy Families America Family Support Worker; PG

Healthy Families America Family Support Worker (PG County)

• Posted:
  February 24, 2026
• Full‑Time
• Rate: $22.12 USD per hour

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Adelphi Clinic
8908 Riggs Rd
Adelphi, MD 20783, USA

The Healthy Families America Family Support Worker ensures that each child is safe, healthy, and ready for school by age five by providing intensive home visiting services to overburdened parents.

This position will report directly to the Healthy Families America (HFA) Supervisor or Program Manager.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Is responsible for reaching out to all families assigned by the program supervisor that reside in Prince George’s County and keeps track of the progress and outcomes of those families.
• Provide weekly, bi‑weekly, or monthly home visits.
• Perform developmental screenings on infants up to age five.
• Track well‑baby visits and immunizations.
• Strengthen parent‑child interaction.
• Facilitate access to community resources such as education, housing, and childcare resources.
• Complete the Family Resource and Opportunities for Growth (FROG) Scale assessment of families assigned by the Program Supervisor.
• Identify and articulate critical issues confronting the family and use them as a basis in creating the Family Goal Plan (FGP).
• Build on family strengths to meet participant needs and/or respond to crisis and stress.
• Collaborate with HFA Program Supervisor to determine the level of family functioning and growth as it relates to the HFA Service Levels.
• Develop a Service Plan in collaboration with the Program Supervisor of new enrolled families.

• Contact family within two business days after receipt of the referral and consistently visit family as identified based on model criteria.
• Use strategies, including reflective practice techniques, to build trust and rapport with families.
• Achieve 85% of the identified number of visits in the home each month.
• Summarize visits, elicit confirmation, and plan for future contact with family.
• Accept and integrate the family’s values and culture into a support plan that reflects the family’s agenda and background.
• Respect differences and offer information about alternatives if certain cultural practices are harmful to any member of the family.
• Facilitate solutions that recognize that opinions/beliefs of family may differ from Family Support Worker.

• Participate in team meetings and trainings, share experience and insight at said events, seek input from others, and utilize any information learned in daily work practices.
• Raise concerns and questions in a manner that promotes discussion for solutions.
• Collaborate with HFA Program Supervisor/Program Manager to identify and participate in other trainings or committees which can further professional growth.
• Identify community needs and address those needs through team meetings and events.
• Identify strengths in performance as well as areas needing development; work together to plan and achieve desired performance goals with the assistance of the HFA Program Supervisor/Program Manager.

• Incorporate families’ strengths in the development of the participant’s independence to advocate for themselves and identify their own solutions.
• Build a support network with the family by developing a resource list of family members, friends, and community agencies.
• Develop the FGP with the family, monitoring progress, and barriers to success.
• Plan visits ahead of time using family‑centered, strengths‑based interventions, case review, FGP, child development curriculum, and age‑appropriate toys with the assistance of the HFA Program Supervisor.
• Report incidents of child abuse and neglect and become an active member of the intervention team to assist families in modifying behaviors or conditions that promoted the abuse and neglect.

• Perform the Developmental Screen with the parents and communicate the growth and development as well as any delays the child may have.
• Implement the child development curriculum based upon the…