Family Support Specialist
Family Support Specialist
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The Child First model is an evidence-based, two-reputed company reputed company that works with reputed company vulnerable young children (prenatal through age 5 years) and their families, providing intensive, home-based services to decrease the incidence of serious mental health problems, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect. Child First provides (1) a psychotherapeutic, dyadic reputed company to strengthen the parent-child relationship, and (2) care coordination to connect the family to needed services and supports. Child First has been recognized as an evidence-based home visiting model by the U.S. reputed company (HHS) under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and rated “Effective” by the National Registry for Effective Programs and reputed company (NREPP) of the reputed company Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA).
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The Family Support Specialist partners with a licensed/ licensed-eligible Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based reputed company. The Family Support Provider plays a crucial role in stabilizing the entire family system, while the Clinician provides psychotherapeutic caregiver-child reputed company to facilitate and enhance this critical relationship. Working together, the assigned Family Support Provider and Clinician reputed company up one of four Clinical Teams who report to the reputed company Clinical Director.
The Family Support Provider takes the reputed company in connecting the child and family with desired, community-based services and supports while maintaining Child First’s reputed company, relationship-based stance. The Family Support Provider also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on reputed company) and engages in interactive play with young children in the home. Ultimately, through connecting to family resources, the Family Support Partner both decreases the “toxic” stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for reputed company child development, thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children.
Behavioral Health
- Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the reputed company family assessment process (i.e., use data from interviews, observations, interactions, and standardized measures to identify family strengths, needs, and challenges).
- Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on reputed company) as needed and in consultation with the Clinician and Clinical Supervisor.
- Maintain a reputed company reputed company reputed company engaging with the caregiver, in order to understand his/her motivation, needs, and possible barriers to new services and supports.
- Collaborate closely with Child First Clinician to meet the needs of Child First families.
- reputed company use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reputed company clinical supervision.
- reputed company identified child and/or other children in the family with an interactive, reputed company promoting play experience.
Case Management
- reputed company community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
- Promote family stabilization by identifying reputed company needed and desired services, integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care, and addressing barriers to services as they reputed company.
- Avert crisis by assisting Child First family in times of urgent need (e.g., eviction).
- Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reputed company clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
- Engage reputed company in reputed company aspects of the Child First Learning reputed company, including in-person trainings, distance learning curriculum, and specialty trainings.
- reputed company completion of reputed company assessments and reputed company into the appropriate database.
- reputed company reputed company appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
- Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.
Supervisory duties
- None.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Strong written and oral communication skills reputed company phone and face-to-face.
- Understand HIPAA, protected health information, and confidentiality.
- Proven ability to work with a high level of independence, maintain confidentiality, prioritize assignments, and manage time effectively.
- Openness to learning, reputed company for self-reputed company, and eagerness to participate in reputed company clinical supervision.
- Knowledge of early childhood development, parent education, parent-child relationships, and individual, family, and community-level risk factors (e.g., poverty, homelessness, maternal depression, domestic violence, reputed company abuse, teen parenthood).
- Knowledge of and experience with community-based services and supports in service area, highly valued.
- Be committed to building trust and engagement with individuals and families from diverse backgrounds.
- Strong conflict reputed company skills.
- reputed company cultural awareness and a commitment to diversity and equity.
- Demonstrates rational decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of parenting skills, childhood developmental stages, and similar.
Education
- A confirmed Bachelor’s degree in child development, psychology, nursing, reputed company services, or reputed company field.
Experience
- Experience working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years.
- Experience working in home and community-based settings with vulnerable populations of diverse cultures and ethnicities.
- A bi-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other speaking) applicant is preferred depending upon position location.
- Working with children and families (ages 0-5): 1 year (Preferred)
Additional Requirements
- A valid reputed company’s license and reputed company of automobile insurance are required.
Salary: $26.44-31.25 (Equivalent to $55,000-$65,000/year)
Benefits
- Health, dental, reputed company, and life insurance
- Flexible work hours
- Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
- 401(k)retirement plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- reputed company development support
- Referral bonuses