Parent Educator

Apply Job Type Full-time Description SUMMARY: The Parent Educator develops and maintains supportive, strength-based, culturally sensitive relationships with infants, toddlers and their families. The Parent Educator is responsible for ensuring that Early Head Start (EHS) participants receive comprehensive Early Head Start services to ensure the optimal development of mothers, their newborn babies and toddlers by helping them to establish healthy parent-child relationships. The Parent Educator ensures compliance with the Head Start Program Performance Standards for EHS. The Parent Educator ensures culpability and understands that effective data collecting practices are integral to the goal of achieving successful outcomes. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Maintains an assigned caseload minimum of 10 or maximum of 12 0-3 year old children and parents. Must complete weekly recruiting events to maintain the required enrollment number of participants to retain for the program. Provides weekly virtual visits to parents and children utilizing parents as teachers home based best practices. Be flexible and work with families at their convenience. Works jointly with parents to develop and implement weekly home visit plans based on each child’s assessment and identified family needs. Maintains and preserves confidential client files. Observes, assesses and documents each child’s health, skills, behavior, growth and development. Integrates a collaborative approach with fellow Parent Educators to ensure continuity of services. Provides children and parents with individual and group socialization experiences. Serves as an advocate for Head Start families and as a liaison between families, the program and the larger community. Serves as a case manager for families to connect them to critical resources like health care appointments, food, housing, counseling, job training and more. Serves as a financial coach to assist families with understanding and participating in basic money management, budgeting, savings, credit and debt reduction activities. Serves as a career development coach to assist adults in navigating career pathways and overcoming barriers to employment. Integrates other components, (i.e. health, nutrition, mental health, parental involvement and disabilities) into the home visit. Assists in identifying children with special needs and makes the necessary referrals. Provides crisis intervention including, but not limited to, mandated reporting. Encourages participation in the Head Start Parent Committee meetings as well as parent group and socialization meetings, and other events or trainings. Ensures that all instructions and parent education comply with DAP, best practices, curriculum instructions and the program design. Assists families in developing/updating a Family Success Plan and creating a plan for the accomplishment of their goals in a timely manner. Assist with community outreach efforts targeting local…