Family Support Worker - Healthy Families

Overview

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong.

We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong.

We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

The Healthy Families – Staten Island program’s goals are to build and sustain community partnerships to systematically engage overburdened families in home visiting services prenatally or at birth, to cultivate and strengthen nurturing parent-child relationships, to promote healthy childhood growth and development, and enhance family functioning by reducing risk and building protective factors. The Family Support Worker/Specialist is responsible for conducting weekly home visits to prenatal and new parents on Staten Island.

• Providing regular home visits to parents/caregivers
• Inititiating and maintaining regular contact with families, primarily in the homes.
• Establishing a trusting relationship with families; involving the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment; welcoming all interested family members in home visits, and work to engage fathers (or father-figures) in particular.
• Ensuring families are seeing at the frequency prescribed by the model and per supervisor’s guidance. Families are offered weekly home visits for a minimum of six months after the birth of the baby. Home visits typically run 50-60 minutes. Upon meeting the defined criteria for family functioning, visit frequency is reduced to biweekly visits, monthly visits, and quarterly visits and services are tapered off over time.
  
  During times of crisis families may be seen 2 or more times in a week.
• Providing prenatal and other health education
• Assisting to strengthen parent-child relationships
• Assisting parents to improve their skills to optimize the home environment for the child’s well-being and safety
• Assisting in making and attending health and human service appointments, including activities related to employment and educational goals
• Responsible for collaboration and collateral contacts to other service providers involved with the family
• Completing weekly paperwork and data entry, including descriptive narratives of each home visit and data forms.
• Maintaining up to date case records for each family. Maintain clear, concise and accurate documentation of progress that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrates…