Community Health Worker – Families Forward Resource Center

Community Health Worker – Families Forward Resource Center

Colorado Nonprofit Development Center

Denver Metro

Part-time

Programs/Services

$23,500 - $27,500

Title:

Community Health Worker (part-time)

Reports To:

Healthy Babies, Strong Families Program Manager

Salary: $23,500 – $27,500 (23 hours/week paid hourly/non-exempt)

Classification:
Hourly, subject to grant funding

ABOUT FAMILIES FORWARD RESOURCE CENTER

Families Forward Resource Center (FFRC) is a full-service family resource center providing supportive services and programs to northeast Denver and north Aurora metro areas. Our mission is to enrich entire families through partnerships and services that create a safe, healthy, and connected community. FFRC has been serving the Far Northeast Denver and Aurora communities for over 20 years. FFRC's flagship program, Healthy Babies, Strong Families, is dedicated to advancing Black Birthing Justice through the provision of direct services, case management, resource navigation, and group-based education and system's level change through community partnerships, collaboration, coordination, and advocacy.

POSITION SUMMARY

Families Forward Resource Center (FFRC) is seeking a part-time Community Health Worker (CHW) to support participants in our Healthy Babies, Strong Families program. Our team's CHWs provide intentional, trauma-informed, and proactive case management and resource navigation services to program participants to eliminate perinatal health inequities, including maternal and infant health, through the administration of appropriate screening tools and the provision of evidence-based health education.

To be successful in this role, CHWs need to be dedicated to Black birthing justice, forward-thinking, innovative, reflective, and detail-oriented. FFRC team members are expected to commit to life-long learning to expand expertise, advance programmatic and organizational support to program participants and the community, and engage in quality improvement efforts to optimize supports and services.

CHWs support a team-based approach and demonstrate enthusiasm for connecting program participants to internal resources, including lactation support, group education, mental wellness support, doula support, and fourth-trimester care.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Provide postpartum case management support and resource navigation
• Utilize motivational interviewing techniques to identify needs and supportive opportunities
• Complete appropriate screenings and assessments to determine direction of case management support including, but not limited to depression screening, interpersonal violence screening, and grant-specific data collection tools
• Assess client health/psychosocial/environmental needs on an ongoing basis
• Provide home visitation utilizing Parents and Teachers curriculum
• Encourage participation in internal FFRC support including lactation support, group education, mental wellness support, doula support, and fourth-trimester care, and coordinate warm hand-offs to team members
• Maintain regular contact with program participants, including home visits, office visits, phone, text, and virtual visits
• Provide one-on-one evidence-based health education
• Utilize required curriculum(s) to support participants and families, including, but not limited to:
• Infant feeding support, including breastfeeding initiation and duration
• Safe sleep
• Tobacco cessation
• Partner involvement
• Reading
• Health insurance coverage
• Prenatal care attendance
• Postpartum visit attendance
• Preventative care visit attendance
• Well-child visit attendance
• Participate in in-person program recruitment as directed and decided with supervisor
• Attend and actively participate in community outreach events approximately two to six hours per month
• Utilize case management database for active…