ECEAP Family Support & Health Specialist

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- Family Support & Health Specialist

Reports to
- Family Engagement & Health Supervisor

FLSA status
- Non Exempt

Pay Range - $23.21- $28.36

Position Summary

The Family Support & Health Specialist is an integral member of the ECEAP comprehensive services team and is responsible for coordinating family support, family engagement, and child health services in alignment with Washington State ECEAP Performance Standards, Child Care Action Council policies, and ECEAP contract deliverables. This position exists as a dedicated role to ensure family support and health responsibilities are manageable, consistent, well documented, and completed within required timelines.

This position provides direct support to children and families through relationship-based family partnerships, health coordination, referrals, follow-up, classroom connection, and community resource navigation. The Family Support & Health Specialist partners with families to identify strengths, needs, goals, and barriers; ensures required health and family support documentation is complete and current; and supports children's healthy development, regular attendance, family well-being, and school readiness.

Working alongside teaching staff and program leadership, the Family Support & Health Specialist strengthens the connection between home, school, and community. This position spends regular time in the classroom supporting children and staff with daily classroom duties because it is integral for the specialist to know the children well in order to support families, health coordination, attendance, referrals, and comprehensive services effectively.

The role ensures that ECEAP requirements for family engagement, family partnerships, child health, developmental follow-up, transition support, confidentiality, and comprehensive services are implemented with fidelity and professionalism.

• Build authentic, respectful relationships with families using strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and family-centered practices.
• Partner with families to identify strengths, priorities, needs, goals, and resources through ongoing communication, family conferences, family support visits, and individualized planning.
• Support families in developing, reviewing, and making progress toward family goals that promote child development, family stability, well-being, and school readiness.
• Help families navigate community services and resources, including health care, dental care, mental health, developmental services, housing, food access, transportation, employment, education, and other identified needs.
• Complete, document, and follow up on family support contacts, family conferences, family support visits, referrals, resource connections, and goal progress in accordance with ECEAP Performance Standards and program timelines.
• Encourage and support meaningful family engagement in classroom activities, program events, parent leadership, policy council opportunities, transition activities, and shared decision-making.
• Support families in understanding their role as their child's first and most important teacher and provide information that strengthens home-school partnerships.
• Maintain confidentiality and protect family privacy in all verbal, written, electronic, and community-based communication.

• Develop trusting, responsive relationships with children through daily interactions and participation in classroom activities.
• Support children's sense of belonging, emotional safety, and connection within the classroom environment.
• Regularly participate in classroom routines, learning experiences, transitions, meals, activities, and other daily classroom duties to support children and staff.
• Collaborate with teaching staff to support children's individual strengths, interests, and developmental needs.
• Use knowledge of each child’s classroom experiences, relationships, strengths, routines, and needs to provide informed support to families and to coordinate health, attendance, referral, and comprehensive service follow-up.
• Promote positive child guidance practices and support children's social-emotional development.
• Contribute to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally responsive learning environment.

• Coordinate, monitor, and document child health requirements, including medical, dental, vision, hearing, immunization, developmental screening, health history, and follow-up documentation.
• Track required health and developmental information to ensure records are complete, accurate, current, and entered by required program timelines.
• Partner with families to identify health, dental, developmental, mental health, nutrition, attendance, and access-to-care needs and support timely referrals and follow-up.
• Collaborate with families, teachers, program leadership, health…