Healthy Families Family Support Specialist; Morgan & Roane

Healthy Families Family Support Specialist (Morgan & Roane Co.)

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The Healthy Families Family Support Specialist

1. Initiates and maintains regular long-term contact and support with families for five years with each family.

• Ensures services are provided in the family's home.
• Ensures each visit lasts about one hour.
• Each visit should maintain family-centered and strengths-based approaches at all times.

2. Ensures the quality of home visiting services helps families achieve core Healthy Families America model quality, fidelity, and success for each family.

• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that strengthen the parent-child relationship by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that promote healthy childhood growth and development by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Each family will receive evidence-based interventions that reduce risk factors and increase resiliency factors by using evidence-based curriculum and activities on home visits.
• Maintains strong knowledge of evidence-based curriculum and quality interventions.

3. Ensures caseload and home visiting rate is maintained in accordance with Healthy Families America productivity standards:

• Maintain caseload of 15 level one families or a weighted caseload of no more than 30 families.
• Ensure the home visitation completion rate of 85% or above is maintained at all times by conducting home visits at an interval based on each family's level of care.
• Ensure productivity is completed at 100% at all times by completing home visits, brief home visits, attempted home visits, office visits, and extra home visits.

4. Provides direct family-centered case management to families to ensure needs are met and case management milestones are maintained in accordance with the Healthy Families America standards for case management, including:

• All families will achieve obtaining a medical home in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable.
• All well-child exams will be maintained according to the American Academy of Pediatrics Schedule of Well-Child Visits.
• All children will maintain completed immunizations in accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics Schedule of Childhood Immunizations.
• All children will receive the Ages and Stages Questionnaire completed in accordance with the required Healthy Families America model timetable; all children presenting with a developmental delay will receive referrals for early intervention services if the family consents.
• All children will have the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Social and Emotional completed in accordance with the required Healthy Families America model timetable; every child whose scores indicated additional mental health assessment will be referred to an infant mental health assessment or home visiting service plans will reflect interventions to address this need if the family consents.
• All prenatal and postnatal women will have Depression Screens completed in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable; all screens that indicate a need for mental health assessments will result in a referral for additional mental health care if the woman consents.
• All families will have Domestic Violence screens completed in accordance with the Healthy Families America model timetable.
• All families will have a Cheers Check In (Parent-Child Interaction tool)…