Family Service Coordinator

Family Service Coordinator - Full Time;

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525 Parkside Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226, USA

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

The Head Start Family Child Care Program is available through the Family Child Care Network (Family Child Care Provider Homes). All Family Child Care Homes provide free quality services to young children and to their families’ ages 3 to 5 years of age. Families are respected as partners in the early care and education process with their children. The Family Child Care Providers’ homes are nurturing learning environments that promote children’s cognitive, social, emotional, language literacy, and physical development.

Providers are caring and competent educators who guide the children’s learning experiences by exposing them to a variety of developmentally appropriate Montessori activities. Providers 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.

The Family Services Coordinator is responsible to coordinate parent involvement and education programs. Under direct supervision of the Program Manager, the Family Services Coordinator will directly supervise Family Assistants and Family Workers providing on-going guidance and support. Responsibilities include but not limited to coordinate recruitment and registration efforts of perspective clients; maintain all intake data; attend and participate in all family related matters;

assist families in with family related matters and concerns.

• Ensures Family Partnerships Agreements (goals) are developed and followed up with as mandated by funding source performance standards.
• Maintains a yearly updates community resources binder, in agreement with the demographic changes within the community.
• Plans and implements appropriate orientation into the program for new families.
• Coordinates recruitment and registration of new families.
• Responsible for ensuring the completion and organization of the reports.
• Provides assistance to families.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or its equivalent.
• B.A. in Human Services/Social Work preferred.
• Family Development Credential preferred.
• Two years of experience in a human services related field; preferably in an early childhood setting.
• Knowledge of consolidates databases preferred.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, talking, hearing, seeing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, & crawling.
• Occasional running.
• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Able to travel to different locations throughout the five boroughs including but not limited to conducting Home visits.

• We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits, including:
• Generous time off (Vacation/ Personal Days/ Sick Days/ Paid Holidays annually)
• Medical
• 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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525 Parkside Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226, USA