Insights Young Parent Services - Bilingual HFA Family Support Specialist

• Base Pay $24.88 / Hour
• Employee Type Full Time

Description

Insights Young Parent Services has been providing parenting education and support services to young parents through home visiting and support groups for over 30 years. We offer 9 different programs with specialties including child development, domestic violence, homelessness and foster care involvement for young parents or their children.

Insights programs offer intensive home and community visiting to young families promoting positive parent-child relationships, supporting healthy childhood growth and development, enhancing family functioning and life skills development. Home and community visiting staff conduct visits to provide life skills development, child development information, education, and parenting support. They conduct an initial needs assessment and multiple subsequent assessments for families and provide appropriate resources and referrals to community agencies.

Family Support Specialists utilize multiple assessments and brainstorm with the family to develop an individual family support plan and set up activities and strategies that help the family meet their identified goals.

Healthy Families is an intensive home visiting program that serves families with children ages prenatal to 3 and focuses on strengthening the parent-child relationship to assure healthy growth and development. Family Support Specialists support parents in cultivating and strengthening a nurturing, positive relationship with their baby at each visit.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Services/Human Services or related field is preferred; however equivalent education, training and experience will strongly be considered.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish with the ability to read, write, and speak in both languages proficiently
• Experience providing outreach and/or direct-service to high needs children and families, preferably adolescents.
• Experience working with adolescents and/or young parents or families is preferred.
• Experience demonstrating a strong understanding of child and adolescent development.
• Prefer experience working with local social service agencies and systems and familiarity with local resources.
• Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating successful experience working with diverse communities in Multnomah County.
• Knowledge of infant and child development.

• Value, experience and willingness to work in a multicultural/diverse environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a broad variety of individuals, including clients, staff, and community partners.
• Bilingual skills (Spanish/English) are preferred but not required.
• Ability to speak and present information in both individual, small-group and large-group settings and to represent the program in community settings.
• Ability to provide detailed documentation in a prescribed format and in a timely, organized manner.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to fluctuating priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and exercise independent judgment.
• Ability to de‑escalate potentially volatile and/or chaotic situations.
• Ability to work effectively in a team‑dependent environment and a willingness to receive and act upon feedback.
• Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries in working with others and in handling confidential information.
• Ability to exercise tact, discretion and judgment in working with a variety of people.
• Ability to remain calm and emotionally available in an environment serving at‑risk adolescents and individuals in crisis.
• Ability to consistently attend and be punctual for scheduled work commitments and meetings and be in a condition suitable for performing the…