Family Advocate- Head Start Program

Description

Salary: $26.35 - $27.88 / hour (depending on position and qualifications)

Posting: Accepting applications as long as posting is up

To apply: Submit a resume and transcript/diplomas

Bonus: Signing bonus eligible, $500

Position Summary: Provide family / community partnership services for families enrolled in Head Start programs. Monitor compliance in accordance with Head Start performance standards. Recruit and enroll children. Facilitate ethnically responsive approaches to problem solving for children and families. Participate in development of parent education materials and classes. Coach parents to learn and / or develop the skills for effective parenting and develop problem solving skills and skills to improve and reinforce self-sufficiency. Assist the Program Director in ensuring that the center exemplifies and maintains a quality child development program.

Work Environment:

Mile High Early Learning is a premier provider of early care and education for children 6 weeks to five years focused on growing great young minds and preparing them for kindergarten and the world using a Montessori inspired curriculum approach.

Consider joining a learning organization that is as focused on growing great teachers and family-oriented professionals as we are on providing a high quality educational experience for our students and comprehensive services to our families. Mile High Early Learning invests in our staff with on-going professional development including college courses, certifications, conferences and workshops. Our Professional Development programs include semi-annual Child Development Associate certification trainings, annual Inclusive Practice in Early Childhood training, and a Bachelor’s degree Residency program.

Mile High Early Learning is seeking candidates who are committed to educational equity, anti-racism, and willing to engage in the hard work it takes to bring positive, impactful change. As an inclusive, learning-centered organization, we embrace innovation, assessment, and reflection to continuously improve.

We are always looking to add thoughtful, energetic, honest, positive, and creative people to our team. Must be an outstanding communicator and rapport builder.

Essential Job Functions: Family Support and Engagement

· Maintain a significant caseload of 34 – 65 families who are enrolled in the Early Head Start (EHS) - Child Care Partner (CCP) and Head Start (HS) programs.

· Guide parents in accessing strengths, needs, and goals of families in the establishment of Family Partnership Agreements; follow-up completion of the Agreements.

· Complete the PFCE Family Needs/Goals Assessment twice a year.

· Engage effectively with parents, staff, and community members who are educationally, economically, culturally, and racially diverse and/or whose first language may not be English.

· Recruit and support enrollment for Head Start children.

· Facilitate child transitions from classroom to classroom; work with families and areas schools to facilitate transitions from preschool to kindergarten.

· Coordinate and plan family meetings and involvement activities in conjunction with the Program Director.

· While respecting family confidentiality, regularly shares information with teachers to ensure coordinated services that meet the needs of individual children and families.

· Provide case management to families including providing resources and referrals for families and following up on referrals; ensuring parents have access to resources that extend the child’s classroom learning into the home environment; and encouraging families in activities that support self-sufficiency.

· Perform recordkeeping, including written documentation, scheduled reports, and mandated reporting, in a timely, accurate, and confidential manner.

· Documentation of all efforts and follow up into the programs data base.

· Assist caregivers in learning the skills necessary to advocate for their children’s services.

· Research, plan and coordinate family literacy activities including reviewing the literacy sheets for accuracy and send them to the on a monthly.

· Assist caregivers in whatever ways appropriate to meet CCAP requirements to assure Center compliance.

· Accompany teachers on home visits as needed.

· Identify child abuse and report situations to appropriate center or Agency personnel according to Agency and state reporting requirements.

· Manage and maintain center waitlist for all children.

· Read and respond to emails daily.

· Respond to questions and concerns from families, licensing representatives, and the community in a timely and professional manner.

· Make attendance calls to homes of absent children and ente