Family and Health Coordinator

Description

EMBRACING ABILITIES. EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES.

At Easterseals of Chicagoland and Greater Rockford, we are committed to two – often interconnecting - pillars of work…early learning and disability. Through these pillars, we transform the lives of early learners and individuals of all abilities through access to expert educational, family, and community support. As an affiliate of America’s largest nonprofit healthcare organization, we have proudly served the communities and families of Chicagoland and Greater Rockford since 1936.

For more information about our organization, please visit us online tersealschicago.org.

The Family and Health Coordinator provides content area support and oversight in the areas of ERSEA (Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance), PFCE (Parent, Family, and Community Engagement), Health and Nutrition, Inclusion, and Social Emotional to the Easterseals Head Start/Early Head Start/Preschool for All/Prevention Initiative programs. The Family and Health Coordinator provides ongoing supervision to assigned Family and Health Advocates in one or more assigned geographic areas.

This position is headquartered at Easterseals Chicago Location at 1939 W 13th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

• Develop and maintain professional relationships, and work with the Family and Health Advocates, other Easterseals staff, partner site directors and staff, and the community to ensure consistent, high-quality parent engagement, family support, health and nutrition, inclusion, and social-emotional services at all assigned HS/EHS/PFA/PI programs.
• Work with Easterseals staff, site directors and staff, and the community to ensure that programs recruit and enroll HS/EHS/PFA/PI children, including children with disabilities, to meet their funded enrollment numbers and to keep an active waiting list.
• Provide support to assigned Family and Health Advocate supervises at sites on a regular basis, including assisting with building collaborative relationships with the Education/Inclusion/Mental Health team, Program Operations team, and site directors and staff, in order to provide integrated services to families.
• Ensure that staff understand and follow a strengths-based, family-centered approach, recognizing and supporting the parent as the child’s first teacher.
• Ensure through ongoing individualized supervision, support, and ongoing monitoring that FHAs are fulfilling their position responsibilities, including building trusting relationships with families; providing ongoing support through at least one significant monthly contact with each family; family assessment and goal-setting; referrals and services, follow-up, and advocacy to meet family needs and interests; implementation of parent engagement curriculum; twice-yearly visits to each family in the family home or a community setting.
• Work with Easterseals and site staff to promote parent engagement, including through parent participation on the site Parent Committees and the agency Policy Council.
• Ensure the provision of case management and referral for social services to HS/EHS/PFA/PI families in cooperation with other social services, health and mental health agencies, and providers through community partnership agreements.
• Participate in program planning and implementation of all service areas as part of an integrated leadership team.
• Participate in the self‑assessment process, community assessment, and strategic planning.
• Participate in the monthly analysis of monitoring data with the leadership team, provide recommendations, and ensure that data is utilized to guide planning.
• Participate in the achievement of program goals, school readiness goals, and promotion of a culture of safety.

• Implement systems and monitor individual supervises’ work to ensure that all necessary information, including waiting list, enrollment, health information, Family Partnership Agreement strengths and needs assessments and goals, referrals, follow‑up and case notes, is entered into Child Plus and child/family files in a timely manner.
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