Community Education Worker - Creciendo Juntos

Description

Position Title:   Community Education Worker - Creciendo Juntos

Reports To:        Early Childhood Program Manager

Classification:   Full-Time

FLSA Status:       Non-Exempt

Compensation: $23.08 hourly

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND

Latino Network’s mission is to provide transformative opportunities, services, and advocacy for the education, leadership, and civic engagement of our youth, families, and communities. Our work springs from the core belief in Latino community self-determination that is, the ability of community members to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. We actively partner across a variety of city, county, state, and community organizations to deliver training and support, a wide range of services, as well as influence policy.

BENEFITS & PERKS

Latino Network provides a generous benefits package that includes:

• Health Plans including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Alternative Care
• FSA - Flexible Spending Account for Medical & Dependent Care expenses
• 401k Plan with Match 
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employer sponsored Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Leave (Vacation, Sick, Sabbatical)
• $300 Home Office reimbursement
• $75 Monthly internet reimbursement
• Self - Care perks
• Team and family events

POSITION SUMMARY

Community Education Workers will provide families with culturally specific home visits, parent-child groups, holistic wraparound services, and parent and community leadership development opportunities. The Community Education Worker (CEW) Program began as a community-driven initiative to train community members as CEWs who partner with parents and caregivers of babies and young children from low income communities of color to remove structural and social barriers facing families. Community Education Workers will actively promote and build family stability, including access to a variety of resources and services which economically empower families such as housing, WIC, Head Start etc., parent and caregiver skills for navigating the educational, social services and health systems, and for advocating for their children’s needs, healthy prenatal and early childhood development in all developmental domains, enrollment in preschool services and kindergarten, parent and caregiver knowledge about early literacy, brain development and attachment, and support for access to culturally responsive and culturally-centered services to address these developmental delays through screening and follow-up referrals.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide families with one-on-one visits, parent- child groups, classes, and events, and providing developmental screenings for children prenatal through five.
• Conduct ASQ screenings for children infants through five years old.
• Participate in curriculum development for the CEW certification/Changemakers Training.
• Co-facilitate one or more CEW certification classes.
• Coordinate and facilitate at least two culturally specific and culturally centered parent-child class series per fiscal year. Each series should be at least 10 to 12 sessions long and cover all required curriculum topics identified by the CEW Supervisors Team and/or Steering Team.
• Support the coordination of the parent leadership initiative, and cultivating community-based parent leadership opportunities for parents.
• Conduct parent-child activities that build Kindergarten readiness.
• Participate in systems change work, community organizing and other efforts that pertain to education, equity, and public health
• Identify and assist with addressing barriers to primary health care including dental and mental health care.
• Connect families to social services and health services
• Support families to attend school activities designed to facilitate positive relationships, successful transitions, and strong parent/staff collaborations.
• Support early Kindergarten registration for children who will be five by September 1st by providing outreach to communities in the spring and summer. CEWs will be able to help families to bridge cultural and linguistic barriers in order to participate in school kickoffs prior to the start of school or to bring families individually to connect them to the school for enrollment.
• Meet deadlines to collect qualitative and quantitative data for monthly reports and quarterly progress reports. 
• Comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and existing confidentiality laws.
• Participate  in mand