Family Support Specialist
Company: Achievement Centers
Location: Delray Beach
Posted on: May 21, 2023
Job Description:
Position Overview: All positions are responsible for upholding
the mission and vision of Achievement Centers for Children &
Families and fostering programs and activities that promote the
academic, social, emotional and physical development of each child
enrolled. Family Support Specialist partners with families enrolled
at ACCF and from the surrounding community to support children's
academic, cognitive and social-emotional success. The Family
Support Specialist builds trusting relationships and engages
families' participation and involvement with their children's
development. They work with students and families in creating a
care plan; encourage behaviors that support positive outcomes; and
connect to resources/ navigate systems that support success.
Classification: Exempt - Salaried Reports to: Director of Social
Emotional WellnessDuties & Responsibilities
- Develop trusting relationships with students and families
enrolled at ACCF or living in Delray Beach's priority neighborhood.
Engage and create relationships with families to foster positive
experiences for children and families.
- Participate in daily family greeting activities.
- Track needs of all children and families enrolled at assigned
site.
- Work in coordination with ACCF Program staff and parents to
monitor and support children's developmental progress and address
any barriers to success.
- Assist in conducting screenings and assessments of all children
along with ensuring to communicate and translate results to
parents
- Conduct comprehensive interviews will all ACCF families to
support the development of a thorough care plan.
- Manage and conduct all linkages and referrals for ACCF families
and community members.
- Recruit and maintain an individualized care plan for all
families for developmental and resource access support. Provide
coaching and problem-solving to overcome obstacles for children and
families to bolster developmental and resource gains.
- Support children and families in setting and reaching care plan
objectives, connecting within the program, and facilitating other
community supports.
- Provide families access to wrap-around resources from ACCF
collaborative partners.
- Develop and track care plan objectives and action steps to
encourage and facilitate progress.
- Recruit, coordinate, and host family involvement in ACCF
workshops and parent engagement activities.
- Manage and maintain recruitment, enrollment, parent access to
funding, parent communications, fee and documentation collection,
etc.
- Explain the absentee guideline process to families enrolling an
"At Risk" child during intake Report client progress and enrollment
status
- Assist in processing tuition payments
- Work with the program staff to create a social and emotionally
healthy and responsive environment.
- Partner with site program to develop and run a Parent Advisory
Council
- Keep all family and process related documentation up to date in
client files. Document and record all contact, referrals,
care-planning conversations, and progress for program evaluation
purposes. Maintain and keep up to date, all contact, referral, and
restorative practice logs.
- Facilitate community building circles, responsive circles, and
formal conferences (engaging key stakeholders in the child's
life).
- Serve as a classroom staff and count in the Health Department
ratio if needed.
- Attend weekly program staff meetings and community meetings and
represent Achievement Centers.
- Provide assistance with translating information for all Creole
speaking families.
- Identify and assess families through an assessment process who
may be at risk of poor health outcomes.
- Implement a solution focused plan that is SMART for all family
members to achieve.
- Act in the best interest of families by advocating for them
during meetings with partnering agencies.
- To be able to engage children through play to support their
learning and development in conjunction with the Teaching
Strategies Gold Objectives for Development and Learning, VPK
Standards, and Head Start Statewide School Readiness
Standards.
- Manage the planning and delivery of information to
families.
- Report on all safeguarding matters to leadership staff and
ensure adherence to staff and organization safeguarding and Child
Protection Policy and Procedures. Essential Skills/Abilities
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to learn and grow through professional development
within a results oriented culture
- A devotion and ability to build close relationships with
students, families, partner agencies, and the community
- Ability to manage time effectively
- Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with diverse groups
- Positive approach to changing priorities and demands and work
assignments
- Computer proficiency preferred
- Strong commitment to the expectation that all children
regardless of their wealth, home language, zip code, gender, race,
or disability should have access to opportunity
- Knowledge or willingness to learn Restorative Practices,
Wrap-Around, and Motivational Interviewing
- Knowledge or willingness to learn about cultural and community
strengths
- Knowledge or willingness to learn about race equity and systems
barriers to school and college readinessPI216994465
Keywords: Achievement Centers, Delray Beach , Family Support Specialist, Other , Delray Beach, Florida
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