Bilingual Child First Family Support Partner

Description

This position serves the Colorado Springs area

Passionate about keeping families together and helping children grow up happy and healthy? Join Savio’s Child First team! 

The Child First model is an evidence-based, two-generation intervention that works with very vulnerable young children (prenatal through age 5 years) and their families, providing intensive, home-based services to decrease the incidence of serious mental health problems, developmental and learning disabilities, and abuse and neglect. Child First provides (1) a psychotherapeutic, dyadic intervention to strengthen the parent-child relationship, and (2) care coordination to connect the family to needed services and supports. Child First has been recognized as an evidence-based home visiting model by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program and rated “Effective” by the National Registry for Effective Programs and Practice (NREPP) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA).

Daily Impact looks like:

• Supporting caregivers in creating an environment that promotes safety and stability for their children (Prenatal - 5 years of age)
• Engaging primary caregivers in active, change-orientated treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to progress and connecting them with services and support

• At Savio, you will grow your skills as and increase your ability to support youth and their families with:
• Working closely with clinicians and provide support to family's treatment goals
• Group supervision and individual supervision weekly
• Gain strength's-based perspective through wrap around services

To belong at Savio you need to:

• Be flexible and self-motivated.
• Have a passion for engaging caregivers who are facing challenging and complex issues that are impacting their children’s well-being
• Be comfortable with community-based services and a non-traditional work schedule

Salary:

Starting $48,660

Bilingual: $53,660

Benefits:

10 paid holidays

Vacation time + Sick time

Medical:

Low employee cost medical coverage

Dental, Vision, Life, Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity

HSA, FSA accounts

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Retirement:

403b account

Employer Funded Retirement Plan

Perks:

Company issued cell phone and laptop

Annual increase + eligibility for performance increase/bonus at 1 year and annually thereafter

Eligible for student loan forgiveness through the Public Service Federal Loan Forgiveness Program

Requirements

Minimum:

Bachelors in social work or in related counseling, psychology or related field.