Parent Educator

Parent Educator

The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) is a non-profit organization established in 1976 to serve immigrants, refugees, and the broader community in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to welcome, serve and empower refugees, immigrants and people across cultures and generations to reach their full potential.

The Parenting Education (PE) Program is a home visiting program focused on early childhood relational health – partnering with families to help the children thrive. Parenting Education Program is a free, home-visiting program to support families with young children. It promotes healthy child development, strengthens parent child interaction and family bonds. Parenting Education Program provides home visits twice a month, 5 monthly group meetings/field trips during the year.

Parent Educator brings child development information and activities to do with the parent and child at each home visit using Parent as Teachers (PAT) Curriculum. PE Program will help children to become ready for kindergarten and will help to enroll them into kindergarten. The PE Program accomplishes these goals through a combination of home visits, parent-child groups, developmental screenings, and referrals provided by committed and professional staff.

The Parent Educator is a trained early childhood professional that provides home visits to enrolled families in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties. The Parent Educator provides parent education and developmental screenings to families with children prenatal to 5 years old. A Parent Educator (PE) will come to the family's home to provide home visits twice a month. During the home visit, the PE will share child development information and activities for promoting positive parent-child interaction using the Parent as Teachers (PAT) Curriculum.

The Parent Educator prepares and delivers age-appropriate parenting education and activities to meet the different needs of enrolled families through in-person home visits, provide developmental screenings to children using Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ/ASQ SE), connect families to resources in the community according to their needs and goals. The Parent Educator will need to complete the required paperwork on time.

The Parent Educator provides services that meet IRCO and ECEF Program goals and objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Perform outreach within Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties and enroll families into Parenting Education Program.
• Prepare and provide one-on-one home visits to parents and the target children enrolled in the program.
• Prepare and bring children activities, according to their age and stage of development, during home visits.
• Ability to work with children of different ages, from prenatal to 5 years old.
• Guide and support parents to create their Family Goal Plan twice a year.
• Engage families to actively participate in the program and perform 2 HV per month, per family.
• Plan and develop 5 group meetings and/or field trips throughout the year.
• Perform developmental screenings ASQ-3 and ASQ SE and coordinate referrals for early intervention as necessary.
• Provide role modeling to parents on how to make appointments, to advocate for the needs for themselves and their children, and to become self-sufficient in accessing services and resources in the community.
• Maintain accurate and confidential records on each Family.
• Coordinate activities and services with IRCO staff.
• Complete and submit monthly reports to supervisor at the end of each month.
• Participate in Early Learning Service/IRCO all staff meetings, monthly team meeting, one-on-one reflective supervision, training, committees, and volunteer activities to support IRCO and Program goals and objectives.

Secondary Functions:

• Provide referrals to community services and resources such as parenting skills, health and dental clinics, family planning, low-income housing, nutrition services, rental and energy assistance, and childcare as needed.
• Provide interpretation services to parents and assist them with better access services and providers such as hospitals, clinics, WIC, DHS and social service programs.
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