Family Resource Specialist

Job Application - Cortland County Community Action Program Job Posting OPEN Family Resource Specialist

Position: Family Resource Specialist

Program: Healthy Families component of the Early Childhood Development Program

Reports to: Program Manager,Healthy Families

Status: Full-time,Non-Exempt

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 37.5hours per week

Starting Wage: $18.00 - $19.00 per hour

Valid Driver's License is required for this position

Job Function: Conductsintake and assessments for Healthy Families.

Responsible for establishing a trusting relationship with families and providing services primarily in the home. Conducts outreach at public events and maintains relationships with referral sources. Help strengthen theparent-child relationship, provide child development information, and offer support in the areas of goal setting and problem solving.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Administerformal and informal assessments appropriately, complete a written narrative,and interpret result to determine eligibility.
• Initiate and maintain regular contact with families, primarily in their homes throughout
  
  Cortland County.
• Complete timely, accurate documentation in a computer-based system providing a narrativeof all contact.
• Make appropriate referrals to health care and other providers. Coordinate services with other agencies.
• Conductcommunity outreach to promote the Healthy Families programs.
• Provideprenatal and other health education
• Apply knowledge of child development, parent-child interaction, family systems, preventive health, and to assist families in raising happy, safe, smart children who areready for school.
• Assist families to strengthen parent-child relationships, provide resources as necessary.
• Assistparents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for thechild's well-being and safety.
• Assist Program participants in setting and achieving goals.
• Keep Program leadership advised on unified community concerns and issues on aregular basis through scheduled meetings.
• Workcooperatively with other CAPCO programs and community agencies. Maintainfunctional knowledge of other local, state, and federal programs relating tolow-income individuals. Work with other human services agencies to create more effective flow of service in the community.
• Participate in training programs which relate to job responsibilities.

Qualifications and Requirements:

Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, plus 3years' experience or Associated degree in human service field with at least 1year experience in working with orproviding services to children and families, an ability to establish trusting relationships, acceptance of individual differences, experience and humility towork with the culturally diverse families, knowledge of infant and child development,willing to engage in building reflective capacity (e.g., capacity forintrospection, communicating awareness of self in relation to others,recognizing value of supervision, etc.),

infant mental health endorsement preferred. Must have a valid driver's license and successfully complete background check .

CAPCO isan Equal Opportunity Employer and we do not discriminate against employees orapplicants for employment on any legally recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color,religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, and physical or mental disability.

CAPCO will make reasonable accommodations for qualified candidates in adherenceof the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York Human Rights Act.