Family Assistant Head Start

For over 125 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, currently offering more than 160 programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and individuals struggling with mental illness.

Early Childhood Development Centers provide free Head Start services to low-income families at no cost to the children ages 3 to 5 years. The high-quality services are offered in the center-based program settings available for the Brooklyn and Queens Communities. Through the Montessori approach, the centers ensure children are ready for school by providing a variety of developmentally appropriate activities that promote cognitive, social, emotional, language-literacy, and physical development.

The Head Start Program strives to actively engage parents, recognizing family participation throughout the program as a key to a child’s robust development as well as to offer the learning experiences tailored to the changing needs and abilities of children.

• Develops and implements Family Partnership Agreements with Families and provides ongoing support to the Family Worker(s) in these efforts.
• Responsible to ensure that all children’s immunizations are current; arranges hearing, vision, and dental screening for all children.
• Responsible to follow up with illness and allergies of children; supplies list of allergies to all services staff and classroom staff.
• Ensures that care is provided to children who arrive to school ill or become ill during the school time; notifies parents of children’s illness.
• Plans and coordinates Health Education Workshops and Health Fairs for parents with the Family Service Coordinator and Family Worker educational trainings for parents utilizing the community resources.
• Coordinates Parent Involvement Program(s), conducts home visits for all children in collaboration with Social Service and Education Staff, and facilitates team meetings with assigned classrooms.
• Covers classrooms as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma required.
• College Degree preferred.
• Family Development Credential preferred.
• 2 years of experience in Human Services required.
• Bilingual Spanish/English;
  Russian/English;
  Chinese/English;
  Korean/English;
  English/Creole speaking preferred.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, talking, hearing, seeing, stooping, kneeling, crouching & crawling.
• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Able to travel for inter-borough training, meetings, and escorting parents to meetings.

• We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits, including:
• Generous time off (Vacation/ Personal Days/ Sick Days/ Paid Holidays annually)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Retirement Savings with Agency Match
• Transit
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life insurance
• Public Loan Forgiveness Qualified Employer
• Training Series and other additional voluntary benefits.

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