Early Head Start Home Visitor

Description

About Focus On Renewal:

Focus On Renewal Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corporation (FOR) is an umbrella and pillar community organization devoted to addressing much needed social services ranging from food security, nutrition, early-childhood education, family support groups and mental health, to library and arts programs for all ages. Focus On Renewal employs 30+ staff at five locations throughout McKees Rocks and Stowe Townships. We work with a wide range of partners to ensure high quality programming is accessible to all 13,000 residents of the Sto-Rox Community. Our mission states that Focus on Renewal’s programs and partnerships connect children, adults, and families with the relationships, resources, and opportunities needed to develop and sustain a thriving community.

About the Position:

 Home Visitors for the Early Head Start Program play a critical role promoting early childhood education  and building secure attachments between the infant/toddler and family members. Services are provided in  the home, office, and various community settings. As a Home Visitor, you will form relationships with  families and their children ages 0-3. To be successful in this role, we are looking for people who believe  in a strengths-based approach and use positive practices to help guide their everyday activities. The home  visitor will partner with parents to design and implement age-appropriate experiences for the child and support the educational experiences for expectant mothers. 

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Implement FF/EHS’s Infant Mental Health approach to partnering with families. 
• Visiting families in their homes weekly and establishing working relationships 
• Maintain a caseload of 10-12 families. 
• Plan and facilitate purposeful and meaningful home visits. 
• Promote optimal development of enrolled children across the five child developmental domains  using the Partners for Healthy Baby Curriculum Plan and implement educational experiences for expectant women. Provide support and parent education. 
• Lead infant/toddler, parent, and other group socialization activities 2 times per month.
• Complete child development assessments every 4-6 months and develop appropriate child goals  with family. 
• Work with families to create Individualized Family Partnership Agreements (IFPA). 
• Maintain complete case records and enter data in required data systems. 
• Collaborate with the site team to design and implement strategies that support compliance with  the Early Head Start Performance Standards. Ensure additional assessments, advocacy, case management, referral, and support services to  families. 
• Respect confidentiality. 
• Attend all necessary program meetings and trainings. 
• Assist in monthly parent meetings. 
• Develop transition plans collaboratively with EHS multidisciplinary team. Facilitate family's access to community resources and supports such as other agencies and  services.

Requirements

Education:  

Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education or Home Visiting CDA.  

BS in Child Development/Early Childhood or degree in related field preferred. 

Experience:  

Two years’ experience working with young children ages birth to 36 months old in a variety of group and/or family settings.  

Prefer experience working with expectant families, families of diverse backgrounds, parent-child  interaction sessions and groups, teenage parents, dual language learners or refugee families,  parents involved with the child welfare systems and parents impacted by substance abuse and  other mental health challenges. 

Must be 21 years of age or older.