Family Resiliency Navigator- Early Education

Overview

We are seeking a Family Resiliency Navigator - Early Education to join our team.

Starting Salary: $48,000 - $54,000 (Salary)

Bonus: $4,600 ($2,000 Sign-on bonus paid on first paycheck and $2,600 Retention bonus paid after 12 months of service).

Join a groundbreaking early childhood mental health collective moving forward mental, emotional and behavioral care for ages birth through preschool children, plus their families and team members. The Family Resiliency Navigator (FRN) reports to the Clinical Manager-Early Childhood. Work as part of an interdisciplinary and inter-agency team to initiate universal behavioral health screenings to improve our ability to identify infants, toddlers and preschoolers with unmet behavioral health concerns and increase services that promote long-term well-being.

The FRN will support children, families, and center personnel in their assigned location to address personal, emotional and social problems that interfere with development and school success.

• Consult with and provide professional development to agency team members and parents to increase knowledge of trauma informed care through the Conscious Discipline model.
• Service delivery will be driven by observation and assessment of the child.
• Provide individual, family, group, wrap around case management, mental health support and/or crisis management to students in crisis as indicated. This will include referral for further services and follow-up of referrals made.
• This position is a full-time twelve (12) month position per year in which you will work the hours assigned by the early childhood center.
• Some in-home and after-hours work may be required to meet needs of families.

Our ideal candidate will have 1 year of experience in the mental health field with this population and the following:

• Bachelor's degree in human behavioral science
• Familiar with implications of trauma, attachment and diversity
• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish, preferred
• At least 21 years of age and pass background check, physical, and drug screening
• A valid driver's license in the state you reside in, proof of current vehicle insurance, and reliable transportation.

Cornerstones of Care is a mental and behavioral health nonprofit certified in trauma-informed care that provides evidence-based prevention, intervention, treatment, and support services to help children and families improve their safety and health by making positive changes in their lives. Each year, our team empowers children and families in Kansas, Missouri, and beyond through three key service areas:

• Youth & Family Support - We help youth gain independence through social and living support programs while empowering families with the skills and resources they need to become resilient and successful.
• Foster Care & Adoption - We reunify and unite families while recruiting and providing support to foster parents and youth in foster care.
• Education & Community Trainings - We help students achieve academic success while giving educators the tools to create safe learning environments to improve their students' behaviors and offer innovative learning opportunities to build and improve knowledge in the community.

• Nonviolence - helping to build safety skills and a commitment to a higher purpose.
• Emotional Intelligence - helping to teach emotional management skills.
• Social Learning - helping to build cognitive skills.
• Open Communication - helping to overcome barriers to healthy communication, learn conflict management.
• Democracy - helping to create civic skills of self-control, self-discipline, and administration of healthy authority.
• Social Responsibility - helping to rebuild social connection skills, establish healthy attachment relationships.
• Growth and Change - helping to work through loss and prepare for the future.

At Cornerstones of Care, we commit to fostering a community where every individual, regardless of background or identity, feels welcome, valued, and empowered. We envision a diverse community where inclusion and welcoming are prioritized. We hold a collective commitment to WIDE (welcoming, inclusion, diversity, and equity) that will drive us forward as a stronger organization.

• We partner for safe and healthy communities.
• We cultivate a culture in which children, families, team members, volunteers, donors, and community partners feel welcomed, safe, respected, empowered, and celebrated.
• We value diversity of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, geographical location, pregnancy, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic, and military status.
• We stand for anti-racism, equity, and inclusivity.
• We insist and affirm that discrimination and violence have no place in safe and healthy communities, including in our organization.
• We strive toward a more welcoming, inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization through…