Family Advocate: MLK Center in Rock

The Family Advocate role is a full-time position with the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Rock Island, Illinois. Pay is $19.89 to $30.86 per hour, or $41,379 to $64,192 annually. The Final date to receive applications is September 30, 2026, at 5 PM. Applications go through the City of Rock Island. The work is based at the King Center, 630 9th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201.

Family advocacy connects households with information, referrals, and follow-up around the needs they identify. The role is full-time and has a continuous community services focus until the stated deadline.

Role:
Family Advocate

Employer:

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center

Location:

630 9th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201

Pay: $19.89 to $30.86 per hour Annual salary range: $41,379 to $64,192

Employment type:

Full-time Application deadline:
September 30, 2026 at 5 PM

Family advocacy begins with a clear account of the household's needs, priorities, and immediate concerns. The advocate listens, records the relevant information, and identifies the next service or organization that can address the issue.

Common family-support work includes referrals, follow-up calls, resource explanations, and coordination with partner organizations. Each contact requires accurate notes because a family may work with several services at the same time.

• Core activity: family needs assessment
• service work: referrals and follow-up
• Records: accurate case notes and contact information

Referrals work best when the advocate confirms eligibility, contact details, hours, and the next required step before passing information to a household. A referral list becomes useful only when the family can act on the information.

Follow-up closes the gap between receiving a phone number and reaching a service. An advocate tracks the agreed next step, documents the response, and updates the plan when an organization or family circumstance changes.

Family support involves private information about housing, income, health, children, relationships, and safety. The advocate protects that information through careful conversations, controlled records, and clear explanations of what can be shared.

Trust also depends on plain language. Families need to understand the service being discussed, the information requested, and the action that comes next without having to interpret agency terminology.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center is at 630 9th Street in Rock Island. The employer's careers page identifies the Family Advocate role as full-time and gives a September 30, 2026, 5 PM closing time.

The employer's main website is the King Center website. The center's community setting places family-support work alongside other services for Rock Island residents.