Family Health Advocate

Position: Family Health Advocate - Hiring Incentive!

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Job : 100

# of Openings: 1

FAMILY HEALTH ADVOCATE – HOME VISITOR

NON-EXEMPT

URBAN STRATEGIES – EARLY HEAD START

FIVE DAYS PER WEEK, 40 HOURS PER WEEK; 12 MONTHS PER YEAR

ERSEA/ FAMILY COMMUNITY SPECIALIST

Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource, and connect faith- and community-based organizations that are engaged in community transformation to help families reach their fullest potential. We work with trusted faith- and community-based organizations and focus on the Latino community to engage and come alongside the whole family. Our vision is that all children and families reach their full potential.

Our work is informed by our three core values:
Authentic Relationships, Servant Leadership, and Intentional Compassion.

• Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
• Servant Leadership is rooted in an other‑centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
• Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential.

Our organization is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and our administrative offices are located in Johnson City, Tennessee. Our team works across the United States and Puerto Rico with direct service centers located in California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York, and Puerto Rico.

Performs all activities in the implementation of ERSEA (Enrollment, Recruitment, Selection, Eligibility, and Attendance) requirements ensuring responsiveness to the results of the Community Assessment and all applicable Head Start Performance Standards. Collects, inputs, and analyses data into the child enrollment, health, and attendance systems. Assists in the development of policies and procedures for ERSEA and for prohibition suspension and expulsion. This position will also assist parents through a referral system to community agencies in cooperation with all other disciplines (Child Development/Disabilities, Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, and Administration).

Assumes a key role in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards.

• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with the management team to create ERSEA goals/outcomes and a system of services that support the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance of infants, toddlers and that is responsive to the results of the community assessment.
• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with the management team to create a family and community engagement goals/outcomes and a system of services that aligns with the Head Start Parent Family Community Engagement Framework.
• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with the management team to create a system of services that limits child suspension from the program and prohibits child expulsions from the program.
• Ensure the implementation of ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement throughout the program.
• Support ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager develop policies and procedures for the ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement system of services.
• Assist in the assessment of community, program, child and family needs, strengths, and resources in quality-of-life issues; compile and analyze data; produce reports; assure the integration of dual language learners, homeless children, children in foster care, and children with disabilities.
• Under the direction of the ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager, assist in tracking, reporting each child’s attendance and follows through with individual intervention in situations of chronic absenteeism.
• Assist with the development of the Community Assessment. Assist with the annual program self-assessment and federal onsite review process, focused on compliance with ERSEA and progress on family/community engagement; report on strengths,…