Associate Director of Family Services and Health

Overview

Originally founded in 1991 as Harlem RBI, DREAM has grown to annually serve more than 2,500 youth across East Harlem and the South Bronx through a network of seven PreK-12, extended-day, extended-year DREAM Charter Schools and community sports-based youth development programs. Through our commitment to rigorous academics, social-emotional learning, deep family and community engagement, and health and wellness, we create lifelong learners who are equipped to fulfill their vision of success in and out of the classroom.

We dream big, with an aggressive five-year plan to expand to serve 3,500 students across seven schools — growing our organization’s impact and leveling the playing field for all children. To learn more, visit wearedream.org
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The Associate Director of Family Services & Health is responsible for coaching and providing supervisory guidance to Family Engagement team members (Family Advocates and ERSEA Coordinator) in order to strengthen staff capacity. The Family Services & Health Manager will work collaboratively with other Head Start and DREAM staff to enhance family life practices and circumstances that promote child development and well-being.

• Outcomes-Based Family Engagement
• Work in collaboration with DREAM Leadership to develop, implement and refine the program’s family engagement approach
• Oversee and monitor family goal-setting, follow-up and coordination; analyze and act on data to ensure that families achieve significant progress on self-sufficiency goals
• Ensure the implementation of a research-based Family Curriculum that extends our classroom curriculum into the family's home
• Develop strategies and community partnerships to ensure that children and families’ preventive and health treatment needs are met
• Engage families as leaders in building a program environment that promotes health and wellness
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to execute high quality case consultation and conferencing systems to address the needs of vulnerable families and children with chronic health conditions and/or special needs
• Secure long-term relationships for families to providers who will support their children’s health and well-being, and proactively support all families needs, providing on-site support and interventions
• Health, Wellness, & EPSDT (Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Health) Adherence
• Develop and implement annual screening plan and program-wide health and wellness campaigns
• Provide guidance and supervision to the Family Engagement team to ensure that all family medical, dental, and EPSDT determinations are accurate and up-to-date and that there are robust supports for the families of children with chronic health conditions and special needs
• Design and facilitate health-related trainings per Head Start, local, and state requirements
• Planning, Monitoring, and Record Keeping
• Support the establishment and implementation of effective health-related policies and procedures
• Oversee a comprehensive system of services for preventing health problems and intervening promptly when they do exist
• Maintain accurate records and case notes to support positive child and family outcomes, completing data entry and periodic reporting as required
• Conduct Health & Safety Audits
• Maintain qualitative and quantitative quality improvement and monitoring systems to ensure that program strategies are executed with reliability, fidelity and quality
• Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment & Attendance
• Oversee eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance to ensure compliance with Head Start Performance Standards
• Provide guidance and supervision to the ERSEA Coordinator to fulfill all aspects of their role including maintaining active and up to date waiting lists, filling vacancies within required time frames, assuring that children are selected according to Head Start Performance Standards eligibility guidelines, coordinating with district collaborators, maintaining data systems
• Work with key stakeholders to develop and implement targeted recruitment strategies
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure the on-time daily attendance of all children and implement…