PTHS Family Service Coordinator

Job Details

Location:

NCLA Gold - Natchitoches, LA 71457

The Family Service Coordinator (FSC) is responsible for engaging all families to partner with us to promote children’s healthy development and school readiness. The FSC uses knowledge of the principles of family engagement to support families in their roles as their child’s primary educator, encourage parent/child interactions that promote children’s school readiness and healthy development, and enhance family well‑being. In this role, the FSC will provide more intensive and targeted support to vulnerable families and families of children with chronic health conditions and special needs in order to ensure that our engagement strategies meet their specialized needs.

The Family Service Coordinator will work as part of the program’s broader team to expand family engagement strategies that will create a sense of belonging and shared community among families, with the goal of enhancing the relationships and support that families provide to one another in their shared aspirations for their children and themselves. The position may involve reassignment of caseload and/or locations as deemed necessary for program operations.

• Participate in outreach, recruitment, and attendance follow-up activities to engage families in our program and to motivate their active participation.
• Engage families in the Family Partnership Process in order to build relationships and shared accountability for promoting children’s development.
• Individualize family engagement and relationship‑building to be appropriate to families’ cultural context, as well as respectful of family circumstances.
• Engage families in individualized, in‑home, and group experiences to enhance parent/child interactions that research shows foster school readiness through consistent family routines, positive guidance and discipline, experience‑rich home environments, and literacy activities.
• Utilize in‑classroom time and home visits to build a deeper understanding of the relationship between children’s development and their home environments, as well as to model and coach families in positive parent/child interactions.
• Implement a research‑based family curriculum that extends our classroom curriculum into the family’s home, modeling high‑quality adult‑child interactions teachers use in their classrooms for families around the four Family Life Practices.
• Focus on coordination and collaboration with education.

• Utilize family self‑assessment information to assist families with self‑identified goals to enhance self‑sufficiency in areas such as education, employment, housing, and access to community resources.
• Provide more intensive weekly face‑to‑face or phone contact with vulnerable families on caseload as identified through their self‑assessment or family interactions/communication – including home visits. Assure that families receive immediate support during times of crisis, and assist with referrals to community‑based resources to meet counseling, treatment, entitlement, or other needs.
• Identify and access services and resources responsive to family interests and goals, and follow up with parents to ensure that services meet their expectations and needs.
• Analyze self‑sufficiency data and utilize data/results to plan and coordinate a variety of parent cohort groups that allow families to support one another to achieve self‑sufficiency goals.
• Coordinate or refer families to opportunities for continuing education, employment training, and other employment services through formal or informal networking in the community.

• Foster a sense of community and a sense of belonging among families in order to strengthen social capital.
• Conduct group and center‑based workshops and activities designed to build social capital and create a welcoming program community committed to family engagement in children’s learning and development.
• Cultivate family leadership and support their efforts through…