ECEAP Family Support Specialist

ECEAP Family Support Specialist

The Educational Service District 123 is looking for a qualified candidate to fill the ECEAP Family Support Specialist position serving Burbank and Pasco sites. The Family Support Specialist (FSS) maintains an outreach recruitment and enrollment process throughout the school year. The FSS works in partnership with the site team to encourage and plan for parent participation in their child's education. The FSS works together with families to support and provide comprehensive and integrated family support services that include recognizing and building upon their family strengths and improving the condition and quality of their family's life.

The FSS's work to adhere to ECEAP Program Standards, Service Plans and the principles of best practice in the field of family support.

The ECEAP Family Support Specialist will:

• Contribute to the development of positive communication, mutual respect, mutual support, competence and creativity among all members of the ECEAP staff.
• Organize and conduct ongoing recruitment to ensure full enrollment in the ECEAP center.
• In collaboration with other site staff, participates in ongoing recruitment.
• Organize and conduct enrollment activities, interviews parents to determine program eligibility, verifies income and obtains necessary parent permission for ECEAP activities.
• Collaborate with site staff, organize and conduct parent orientations to ECEAP, including orienting parents on their rights and responsibilities in ECEAP and explaining relevant ECEAP policies and curriculum approaches.
• Assist families in recognizing their strengths, support them in setting goals, and plan how to meet the goals through the development of a Family Partnership Plan.
• Work in partnership with families to overcome barriers, meet their stated goals and achieve economic success and prosperity.
• Provide family support services through at least three hours contact with each family during program year.
• Access ESD ECEAP Counseling Fund as needed when referring an ECEAP child/family to counseling services.
• Collaborate with center mental health professionals in addressing mental health issues of enrolled children and their families.
• Work with diverse populations and access interpreters and the Language Line as needed through ESD ECEAP Interpreter Fund.
• Visit home of families as appropriate for the purpose of enrolling children in program, interviewing parents, informing parents of school and/or community resources and providing child development and parenting information.
• Collect and identify health and nutrition information including medical, dental, immunization records and other information from parents and health providers for the purpose of providing health summaries and information reports to center staff and coordinators and refer to health treatment as appropriate.
• Develop individualized child health and/or nutrition plans, as necessary, for the purpose of supporting and child's success in school.
• At the end of the school year, evaluate and document in child's file the family's experience with working on their child's health plan.
• Provide support to families experiencing a crisis and refers them to emergency assistance and crisis intervention providers, as appropriate.
• Partner with parents for the purpose of assisting with access to health providers, obtaining exams, identifying obstacles to completing exams and securing appropriate treatment and follow-up on referrals for children.
• Promote parent, staff and community partnerships in the ECEAP program through various methods (e.g., parent meetings, parent leadership, Parent Professional Development opportunities, newsletters, parent trainings, home visits, Policy Council, volunteer opportunities and other strategies.)
• Encourage parents to participate in decisions concerning the education of their children and support families involved in site leadership activities.
• Provide or assist with providing health screening, immunization verifications, and outside agency referrals (e.g. hearing, vision, immunization compliance, height/weight relationships, etc.) for the purpose of promoting needed treatment and complying with program…