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General Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or related field (preferred) and two to five years of experience in the field, working with individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities and with their families. Other qualifications include working knowledge of resources, benefits, and services; good communication and organization skills; ability to make sound clinical decisions; and a commitment to working as a team member.
Job Responsibilities Overview
Note : Below are highlights from the AWC Service Navigator job description; please ask for further details.
● Encourage people with disabilities to live their best lives by supporting their life vision and goals.
●Work with each person participating in AWC services to create a Support Team to help carry out chosen vision and goals.
●Foster self-growth, community participation, and personal networking opportunities using a strengths-based approach.
●Create meaningful systems for possible employment, volunteer options, and personal connections as people pursue their life aspirations.
●Develop with AWC participant/family a proposed AWC budget.
●Promote community connections by helping to identify and share contact information for local, generic community resources, and community organizations that may be helpful to the participant/family to address their support needs, including recruitment of potential Direct Service Staff, and providing opportunities for new experiences and relationships.
●Maintain regular contact (home visits, phone calls, emails) with AWC Participant and their family.
●Assist in recruiting support staff and help in all activities related to the employment process.
Full Time
$56k-72k (estimate)
06/06/2024
06/24/2024
arcnbc.org
ATTLEBORO, MA
100 - 200
1959
VIRGINIA STREET
$10M - $50M
Social & Legal Services
Vision: People of all abilities are empowered to succeed by making their own choices. Mission: To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of superior talent who passionately demonstrate best practices. Brief history of The Arc of Bristol County: It must have been heartbreaking. To have a new baby in your arms, and the doctors saying because of the childs special needs, you should put him or her away, essent ...
ially forget about them. Such was the case for many families prior to the 1950s. In 1959, a group of courageous families from the Attleboro area joined forces, wanting to raise their children with developmental disabilities themselves, but knowing they needed support to do so. These were the founding families of The Arc of Bristol County. Wonder if they could have imagined 51 years later, their kitchen table organization would be serving 2,000 individuals annually, offering tremendous opportunities for children and adults with disabilities? As a result of their efforts, and the efforts of hundreds of other families around the world, people with disabilities are more integrated into their communities, have full rights to education and employment, and now have opportunities that would never have been dreamed of half a century ago.
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