Child & Family Resources

Bilingual Parent Educator/Outreach Engagement Coordinator (FT) Child & Family Resources

Overview

As an Outreach/Engagement Coordinator, staff will identify, develop, and maintain relationships in the community to foster awareness, outreach, and recruitment of new families to the program. As a Parent Educator, staff works with families and their children through home visitation from prenatal to kindergarten entry using skills in partnering, facilitating, and reflecting with parents utilizing the evidence-based Parents as Teachers model and curriculum.

Parent educators provide parent education, sensory and developmental screenings, and family support to enhance the quality of parenting, increase a parent’s understanding of child development, and help their child learn, grow, and develop to meet their full potential.

• Build and maintain relationships with community agencies and partners to share program information and learn about resources available for families (events/outreach as assigned).
• Communicate regularly with community partners to attend and plan outreach events with the purpose of recruiting new families to the program and building awareness. This includes but is not limited to: WIC, child care centers, family resource centers, libraries, and other First Things First grantees.
• Attend network and community meetings as assigned by Program Director. Find new opportunities in the region.
• Keep documentation and lists of outreach and engagement events and contacts made. Keep Program Director informed of these on a monthly basis.

• Implement Parents as Teachers model and curriculum with fidelity and follow all program and agency policies and procedures, including meeting screening frequencies.
• Implement the program in accordance with contract requirements and First Things First Standards of Practice.
• Conduct home visits and maintain a caseload of 12 families.
• Complete home visits weekly, twice a month, or monthly following and delivering PAT Curriculum. Frequency is determined through case staffing with Program Director/Supervisor depending on the needs and supports of the family. Maintain a minimum of 80% visit frequency rate per month.
• Prepare for home visits and complete Planning Guide in data system (Penelope) prior to scheduled visit.
• Conduct home visits and group connections at a time that is convenient for the family. This may include evenings and weekends.
• Complete all post visit documentation within three business days (72 hours).
• Maintain case records and data system in accordance with agency and program policies, procedures, and requirements.
• Initiate contact with referred families within two days and actively work to engage families in the program.
• Travel to and from home visits, program trainings and/or events using own vehicle and/or agency vehicle.
• Attend mandated trainings, which may include out-of-state travel.
• Connect families to resources that address their needs at a minimum of monthly.
• Administer developmental (ASQ-3 and ASQ-SE2) and sensory (vision and hearing) screenings throughout the program year with appropriate screening tools and equipment.
• Administer screenings for children, including Bracken School Readiness Assessment and M-CHAT (as needed).
• Administer screenings for parents, including PICCOLO, Edinburgh (if applicable) and PHQ-9 (depression), Relationship Assessment Tool (domestic violence), and ACEs.
• Actively participate with teammates in the development and facilitation of monthly group connections for families; facilitating an opportunity for families to build social connections with each other, engage in parent-child interaction activities, and increase their knowledge of ways to support children’s development.
• Maintain a positive working relationship with colleagues, administration, collaborative partners and others within the community.
• Participate monthly in two hours of individual reflective supervision and at a minimum one hour of group supervision.
• Attend and participate in all mandatory conferences, seminars, in-service training and program meetings. Adhere to program policy…