Wraparound Parent Partner

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With more than a century of experience, Children's Bureau is a trusted nonprofit leader in strengthening vulnerable children, their parents and the communities in which they live. We thrive on innovation, thinking differently and bringing life-changing moments to those in need.

Understanding Our Core Values:

• Collaboration: We view responsibilities as shared and provide support, feedback, motivation to others.
• Equity Mindset: We stand by building an inclusive and equitable working environment. We believe everyone here within the organization enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world.
• Mission-Driven: We performs duties in a manner that exemplify the Mission and Vision and ensure customer satisfaction. Customers of Children's Bureau are defined as clients, families, co-workers and vendors.
• Ownership: We effectively manage our own work, and the work of our teams when relevant, ensuring delivery of high-quality work.
• Initiative: We proactively seeks opportunities to develop self and serve the organization.
• Communication: We demonstrate empathy and listening.

Benefits and Perks:

• Robust benefits package
• Generous paid time off and a culture that promotes work life balance.
• Selfcare opportunities, employee engagement initiatives and an extensive health and wellness program offered for all staff.
• A culture that cultivates learning and promotes growth and development through our award-winning internal university.
• Trauma Informed Resilience Oriented Care (TIROC): We build trust for our communities by implementing trauma informed values in the work that we do.
• Recognized as "DEI Non-Profit of the Year" by Los Angeles Business Journal

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Children's Bureau of Southern CA proudly is committed and supportive of complete pay transparency. The position of Wraparound Parent Partner will pay $19.24/hour.

Additionally, the lifespan compensation range of this position is: $19.24/hour -$22.60/hour.

Must have Covid-19 Vaccine and Booster.

Learn more about the Job:

The Parent Partner is responsible for providing direct support services to the families and children in the Wraparound program. Due to their lived experience Parent Partner assists the family in learning communication skills, educates the family on how to navigate through various systems, and teaches advocate skills. Assists the Facilitator and Child and Family Specialist with family and community engagement, advising on parent and family concerns within the Child and Family Team Meetings.

Job Responsibilities:

Under supervision of the Program Manager.

• Implements knowledge of the caregiver or parent and family's underlying needs, strengths, culture, preferences, and goals to provide individualized interventions, community linkages and resources to support the caregiver and family to reach their desired outcomes.
• Provides first-hand knowledge about navigating various systems including, but not limited to, the Child Welfare System, Probation, etc. because of having lived experience.
• Ensures that the parent's culture, beliefs, experience, voice, and choice are heard by the team and incorporated into services.
• Guides the Wraparound team in having a better understanding of the parent's and or caregiver's perspective.
• Models appropriate parent participation in the CFT meetings.
• Helps CFT members understand the parent's or caregiver's role within the household and as the child's or youth's caretaker.
• Encourages parents and or caregivers to listen to other CFT members, especially the child or youth.
• Assists parents and or caregivers to build supportive connections within their community.
• Provides parents with the necessary advocacy and networking skills to be self-sufficient and equipped to better deal with future challenges.
• Educates parents on how to successfully navigate systems (education, health, juvenile justice, community resources, etc.) to ensure that they can appropriately advocate for their children or youth.
• This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and employee will also perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by the Wraparound Manager or his/her designee as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience

• Biological or adoptive parent of a child with special needs.
• Experience and/or involvement with either the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Child and Family Services, or Probation.
• Parent Partners must not have an open probation/DCFS case for at least one year (1).
• Complete the basic Wraparound Training, IHBS/ICC and Share Core Practice, from LA County DMH.

Job Qualifications:

Education

• High school diploma or GED
• Valid California driver's license.

Knowledge/Skills

• Bilingual Spanish language speaking, reading, writing required.
• Maintains confidentiality in matters of agency operations, personnel, and clients.
• Maintains positive communication with all agency staff, clients, and visitors.
• Exercises good judgement in performance of duties and responsibilities.
• Supports existing agency policies, principles, and mission.
• Ability to interact and communicate both verbally and in writing with seriously emotionally disturbed children, other staff, physicians, and the public.
• Demonstrated understanding of psychiatric illness and its treatment.
• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of community services and county agencies.
• Proactive, upbeat personality, team player with a professional demeanor

We value inclusivity and support our employees diverse needs.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand or sit; walk; use hands and talk or hear. Fine motor skills such as typing, and the use of a computer mouse is required. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. If you are unable to perform any of the above abilities and require special accommodations to do so, please advise your recruiter. We're dedicated to fostering an environment where everyone can excel.