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JOB TITLE FAMILY HEALTH ADVOCATE – HOME VISITOR

CATEGORY NON-EXEMPT

PROGRAM URBAN STRATEGIES – EARLY HEAD START

WORK SCHEDULE FIVE DAYS PER WEEK, 40 HOURS PER WEEK; 12 MONTHS PER YEAR

REPORTS TO ERSEA/ FAMILY COMMUNITY SPECIALIST

Organization Overview

Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource, and connect faith- and community-based organizations that are engaged in community transformation to help families reach their fullest potential. We work with trusted faith- and community-based organizations and focus on the Latino community to engage and come alongside the whole family. Our vision is that all children and families reach their full potential.

Our work is informed by our three core values: Authentic Relationships, Servant Leadership, and Intentional Compassion.

• Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
• Servant Leadership is rooted in an other-centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
• Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential.
  
  

Our organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and our administrative offices are located in Johnson City, Tennessee. Our team works across the United States and Puerto Rico with direct service centers located in California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York, and Puerto Rico.

Position Overview

Performs all activities in the implementation of ERSEA (Enrollment, Recruitment, Selection, Eligibility, and Attendance) requirements ensuring responsiveness to the results of the Community Assessment and all applicable Head Start Performance Standards. Collects, inputs, and analyses data into the child enrollment, health, and attendance systems. Assists in the development of policies and procedures for ERSEA and for prohibition suspension and expulsion. This position will also assist parents through a referral system to community agencies in cooperation with all other disciplines (Child Development/Disabilities, Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, and Administration). Assumes a key role in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards.

Essential Functions

• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with the management team:
• to create ERSEA goals/outcomes and a system of services that support the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance of infants, toddlers and that is responsive to the results of the community assessment.
• to create a family and community engagement goals/outcomes and a system of services that aligns with the Head Start Parent Family Community Engagement Framework.
• to create a system of services that limits child suspension from the program and prohibits child expulsions from the program.
• to ensure the implementation of ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement throughout the program.
• to support ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager develop policies and procedures for the ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement system of services.
• Assist in the assessment of community, program, child and family needs, strengths, and resources in quality-of-life issues; compile and analyze data; produce reports; assure the integration of dual language learners, homeless children, children in foster care, and children with disabilities.
• Under the direction of the ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager, assist in tracking, reporting, each child’s attendance and follows through with individual intervention in situations of chronic absenteeism.
  
  

Assist with the development of the Community Assessment. Assist with the annual program self-assessment and federal onsite review process, focused on compliance with ERSEA and progress on family/community engagement; report on strengths, recommendations, required improvements; implement improvements and recommendations; incorporate into the program planning process.

POSITION SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

ERSEA

• Implement the system to track the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance of children to comply with federal and state program regulations.
• Assist in creating the criteria for the selection and enrollment of children assuring responsiveness to community assessment and reflecting data on dual language learners, homeless children, children in foster care, and children with disabilities.
• Perform intake/registration procedures for all families and ensures income verification and eligibility qualifications of children and families are met, and ensure applications are complete and data is accurately entered in the Child Plus database.
• Assure and maintain record keeping and reporting policies for waitlists, enrollment, attendance, timelines, schedules, and procedures in accordance with following designated state and federal program requirements.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring, tracking, follow-up, and analysis of enrollment and attendance data, and produce regular reports for management meetings.
• Assist in addressing any possible child suspensions and in the prohibition of expulsion and collaboration with Mental Health Services.
• Maintain enrollment forms, ensuring information is current, correct, and disseminated to all necessary staff to meet program requirements.
• Perform recruitment activities in response to enrollment data and waitlist data.
• Ensure full program enrollment and maintenance of a sufficient waitlist.
• Compile and submit Program Information Report (PIR) data periodically.
  
  

Family Service/Community Partnerships

• Implement the system for Family and Community Engagement Services.
• Implement a system of services, record keeping, and reporting of the Family Partnership Agreement and assure its alignment to the Parent Family Community Engagement Framework.
• Assist in being the program resource for consultation, information, and referral regarding community resources to staff and client families
• Completes family service home visits and Needs Assessments
• Completes other related activities and duties as assigned.
  
  

Health and Disabilities

• Support families obtain their infant/toddler’s health requirements, such as vaccines, annual health checkups, dental/oral health exams, etc.
• Follow up with parents and doctors on infants’ and toddlers’ health requirements, and ongoing health care, including access to a medical and dental home.
• Responsible for tracking and documenting health events in the program’s data management system.
• Conducts Health home visits, screenings, and assessments with families.
• Utilize the Arizona State Immunization System (ASIIS) database to capture children’s immunization data.
• Monitor children’s health reports and works collaboratively with the Health Services Team.
• Support the referral process for children with possible special needs and works collaboratively with the Education/Disabilities Team, teachers, and parents.
  
  

PHYSICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

The ability to see at a normal distance, hear normal conversations and sounds, and use hands and fingers to fill out the required forms. Occasional lifting of fifty (50) pounds is required and must be able to push/pull up to fifty pounds horizontally. Ability to sit on the floor, bend at the waist, kneel and/or stoop 75% of the time.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions if the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Certification or Credential in social work, family services, human services, or in a related field.
• Experience: One to three years’ experience working with families and children prenatal to three years of age
• Skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills; Advance MS Office Suite.
• Working knowledge of local community resources and health requirements for children, zero to three years of age.
• Others: Must have Valid Driver’s License, Personal Vehicle, and Liability Insurance required.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Associate or bachelor’s degree in social work, family services, human services, or -in a related field.
• Experience: Work in a Head Start of Early Head Start program and knowledge of the Office of Head Start Performance Standards.
• Skills: Bilingual (English /Spanish).
  
  

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

Other employment requirements include the following:

• All EHS employees must pass a mandatory criminal background check prior to hiring and every five years thereafter.
• Initial health exam and state-required communicable disease screening and testing.
• Food Handlers Certification Card.
  
  

Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background checks mentioned above. Periodic physical examinations and TB clearances will be required if hired.

To Apply:

Please visit www.urbanstrategies.us/careers.

The position will be open until filled.

Equal Opportunity Employer