Family Services Advocate Cardwell, Missouri

Job Details

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• Implement Health Transitional and Family Services at the Center including but not limited:
  Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, Attendance (ERSEA), home visit, newborn home visits, family needs assessment, referrals, child file reviews, case notes, Family Partnership Agreements, Transitions, collaboration with community agencies, parent education, coordination of MSHS services to families, family literacy, identification of community resources, and tracking of services.
• Participate in Case Review Process that addresses health, nutrition, and disabilities program area of children and determine child’s health, special needs, and nutrition status by performing a file review and obtaining any current health or dental information through records request.
• Manage family services utilizing a case management systems approach that includes performing and monitoring case review to identify a family’s strengths and immediate, short-, and long-term needs of parents and children that provides a support system for families to meet their own individual needs through advocacy, training, and coordination of services.
• Implement and monitor ongoing recruitment plan activities within the center recruitment zones to ensure funded enrollment is met that includes recruitment and establishment of 10% enrollment of children with disabilities.
• Provide direct supervision to family Services Advocate Worker including ongoing mentoring, training, and conducting performance evaluations.
• Coordinate / implement and monitor the enrollment process of families that includes childcare and determine family’s eligibility status, enrollment priority status by utilizing selection enrollment criteria and for families enrolled implement a waiting list while ensuring that eligibility is 100% accurate in accordance to funding source.
• Address health, nutrition and disabilities issues including short-term exclusion of children by consulting with parents and sending home “symptoms” letters and health / nutrition referrals, and if necessary, conduct home visits when health or developmental concerns are suspected or identified through staff/parent observation, screenings, and daily health observations, conduct in-house staffing, and send out referrals as needed.
• Conduct Parent Orientation and coordinate and/or obtain documents such as health information (immunizations, Health history, etc.,) in accordance with licensing requirements.
• Facilitate and coordinate the development of Family Partnership Agreements that outline family goals, school readiness goals, language initiatives, literacy for goal achievement, ensure information gathered is disseminated to appropriate staff.
• Utilizing the Parent, Family, Community, Engagement (PFCE) Framework, offer family engagement opportunities at the Centers through parent meetings, fatherhood activities, open houses, parent participation through monthly newsletters, offering family literacy resources, provide parent training as needed.
• Implement parenting curriculum that builds on parent’s knowledge and offers parents the opportunity to practice parenting skills to promote children’s learning and development.
• As part of the PFCE Framework, assist families in accessing community resources/services through implementing and effective referrals process and monitoring each case through the process of follow-up referrals to ensure immediate / emergency needs as well as long-term issues of families have been addressed.
• Obtain consents from parents, if parent unable to take child, for EPSDT, health or dental services that allows program to arrange services, as permitted by provider, and coordinate transportation for these services as needed.
• Prepare paperwork for clinics including necessary forms for Provider (ex. Immunization records, health history, lead screening, parent consent, etc.)
• Coordinate with Child Development Coordinator in implementation and monitoring procedures/methods for child accidents, case reviews, health emergencies, injury/accident prevention, reporting (to include parents), and follow-up, medication administration,…