Eliot is seeking a bilingual Family Partner (English with Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole, or Portuguese) with lived experience as caregiver to a youth with special needs (preferably mental health needs). A candidate should have experience navigating child and family service systems & teaching families involved in those systems. They will engage with other caregivers using a wraparound approach to assist in meeting the needs of their child and family.

Responsibilities:

• Engage the parent/caregiver in activities in the home and in the community that are designed to address one or more goals on the youth’s treatment plan or ICP.
• Assist parent/caregiver in meeting the needs of the youth through educating, supporting, coaching, modeling and guiding.
• Teach parent/caregiver how to network/link to community resources and treatment providers.
• Support parent/caregiver in advocating for services and resources to meet a youth’s needs.
• Guide, support and foster empowerment including, linkages to individual, peer/parent support and self help groups.
• Participate on Care Planning Team (CPT) and attend CPT meetings.
• Participate in discharge planning.
• Meet with providers and attend all IEP, hospital discharge, treatment team and other relevant meetings.
• Provide telephone support and outreach to parent/caregiver.
• Make regular telephone and face to face contacts with collateral providers.
• Provide transportation to parent/caregiver as appropriate.

Schedule: Varies

Experience

• 1 year(s): Experience in navigating child and family service systems
• Lived experience being caregiver to a child of a youth with special needs, preferably mental health needs.

Skills

• Computer Software Skills
• Communication Skills
• Administrative Tasks

Behaviors

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Motivations

• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization