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Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.
The Stronger Beginnings for Families Parent Educator is a critical member of the organization's prevention and family support programs, providing comprehensive, long-term home-visiting services within a strength-based, family-centered model to high risk expectant parents and families with young children. As a Parent Educator, you will meet regularly with families with young children to provide observations of parent-child interactions, including assessing for effective communication and empathic responses and engaging parents in reflective dialogue on the developing parent-child relationship, as well as partnering with them to establish family and child development goals and support them in expanding their support systems. The Parent Educator also provides parenting support and facilitates parent support groups, assist parents in forming community connections aligned with service goals, including referral and linkage with providers of early intervention, mental health, health care, and other supportive services, and develops and maintains collaborative partnerships with key community providers.
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We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.)
We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.
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Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$42k-55k (estimate)
04/21/2024
06/19/2024
mybrightpoint.org
FORT WAYNE, IN
100 - 200
1965
HAROLD POFF
$10M - $50M
Social & Legal Services
Mission Brightpoint helps communities, families, and individuals remove the causes and conditions of poverty Vision Brightpoint envisions a world without poverty in which all people have access to opportunities and are treated with dignity.