Child First Family Resource Partner

At Coastal Horizons, our mission is to provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities. We are currently seeking a motivated and passionate Child First Family Resource Partner servicing in Watagua County to join our dynamic team. If you're looking for an opportunity to make a difference, we invite you to explore the exciting positions available with us.

Job Title: Child First Family Resource Partner

Service Location: Guilford County

JOB POSTING:

• Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
• Engage with the Child First family and the Therapist in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e., use data from interviews, observations, interactions, and standardized measures to identify family strengths, needs, and challenges).
• Promote family stabilization by working collaboratively with family to identify and support needs (both urgent and long-term), integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care, and addressing barriers to services as they arise.
• Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g., planning, organizing, managing time, focusing attention, regulating emotions, reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with the Therapist and Coordinator.
• Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with the caregiver to understand their motivation, needs, and possible barriers to new services and supports.
• Use videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
• Utilize Abecedarian techniques to promote healthy attachment and development of the child.
• Provide the family with interactive, growth-promoting play experiences.
• Engage in weekly individual, team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Coordinator
• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative, including in-person or live-remote training, distance learning curriculum, and specialty training.
• Track completion of all assessments and enter in the appropriate database.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
• Maintain schedule and complete tasks to achieve home visiting Benchmarks and meet Accreditation standards.
• Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation within early care and education settings and to other early childhood providers.
• Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL/EXPERIMENTAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of Bachelor’s Degree, within Human Service field preferred.
• Meets requirements under 10A NCAC 27G.0104 as a Qualified Professional for Mental Health.