Family Support Partner chez Child & Family

What You’ll Be Doing

You will collaborate with community-based service providers, family members, and friends to build a strong brighter future for families in the program.

Hybrid Role, 20% Remote Work.

Your Main Priorities

While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:

• Provide support to families with children and youth who are at risk of abuse and neglect, have serious emotional disturbance (SED) or a development disability, and/or those who have juvenile corrections involvement in the home or school setting.

• Support the Family Service Care Coordinators with family engagement, building trust and orienting family members and others to the Wraparound process; supports Wraparound team integration and success.

• Actively participate as a member of the Wrap Planning Team until the family can advocate their views and choices.

• Connect families with community-based services and support that are appropriate; provides basic parent education.

• Support data collection needs such as RIFIS activities and progress notes.

Who You Are

Requirements, Skills & Abilities:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.

• Minimum 1 year experience related to the role or knowledge acquired through relevant training required; experience with serious emotional disturbance or developmentally disabled children preferred.

• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.

• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.

• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.

• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.

• Collaboration and teamwork.

• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.

• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Physical Requirements

Direct Service Staff:

This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services

In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:

•    Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.

•    Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.

•    Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.

Affirmative Action 

Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.