Family Health Navigator

At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Every child deserves a safe and loving home. When parents are unable to provide this on their own, intervention is needed to ensure these children are free of abuse and neglect.

We provide child well-being services to help children live in a safe and nurturing environment. We provide services to parents needing education and guidance to improve their parenting skills so their children can remain with them.  We also provide services to children who are placed with foster families until they can return home or become part of an adoptive family.

Our experienced professionals provide the following services to families in Milwaukee County and at locations throughout Wisconsin.

• Foster Care

• Treatment Foster Care

• Adoption

• Respite Care

• Child Advocacy Centers

• Family Case Management

• Family Finding

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.

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Job Summary:
Improve health and birth outcomes for pregnant or parenting women, men and their infants by linking identified needs with available community resources. Partner with local community organizations to facilitate integrated service delivery. Work with medical and behavioral health professionals to ensure follow up and coordination of recommended medical management.

Essential Functions:

• 60% of the role is spent outside of the office, conducting home visits, meeting with community partners, and disseminating community health information.

• Engages in community outreach activities. Connects with residents of identified neighborhoods, follows up with families and disseminates social and medical information and resources regularly.

• Collects information regarding services provided and the needs of community residents in a systematic, continuous, and confidential matter.

• Documents direct resource delivery provided to residents and maintains computer-based records.

• Facilitates continuity of health care for participants by planning and exchanging information with physicians, other school and community health and social service agencies.

• Provides group based parenting classes to Healthy Start program participants.

• Provides health education information to community residents to facilitate positive health behavior change among the population

• Assists with data collection and data entry.

• Participates in advocacy activities to support the program.

• Provides feedback and evaluation opportunities for program participants and incorporates those results into program improvement.

Legacy Essential Functions:

• Provides feedback and evaluation opportunities for program participants and incorporate those results into program improvement.

• Fulfills requirements for continuing education.

• Maintains office communications and participates in agency sponsored meetings when required.

• Actively participates in reflective practice supervision.

Education:

• High School graduate or Certificate of General Educational Development (GED) or High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) required

• Bachelor's Degree preferred

Experience:

• 1+ years working in community programs with families of diverse ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic background required

• In lieu of work experience, would consider lived or volunteer experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of psychosocial, economic and cultural determinants of healthy growth and development. Working knowledge of current trends and developments in the prevention and family support field. Knowledge of the ecological theories and family support principles.

• Must use personal vehicle to transport children.

• Must complete both in-house car seat education and transporter training within one month of hire. Must re-train and maintain