Safe Babies Community Coordinator (SCC)

Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Safe Babies Community Coordinator (SBCC) is a trauma-responsive, hope-centered leadership role responsible for implementing the vision of Tulsa Safe Babies in collaboration with child welfare, court staff (Judges, parent and child attorneys, guardian ad litem, etc.) stakeholders, funders, Zero to Three (ZTT), ODMHSAS, and other involved community partners for successful operation and execution of the SB approach. The Safe Babies approach is an integrated community engagement and systems change initiative focused on improving how the courts, child welfare agencies, and related child/family-serving organizations work together to support young children and their families. This position supervises the SB Specialist position and provides the necessary structure, focus and capacity to bring diverse systems together to increase awareness about the negative impact of abuse and neglect on very young children, change local systems to improve outcomes and to prevent future child welfare and court involvement in the lives of very young children and their families. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. In collaboration with OK State SBCC, and ZTT, supports the development & dissemination of policies, procedures, practices, and promotional literature to implement the Safe Babies (SB) Core Components to fidelity. 
2. Builds positive, collaborative relationships with Judges, Parent and Child Attorney’s, OHS Child Welfare staff, & other current stakeholders to support the successful operation and execution of the SB approach, as well as recruits new members to the SB Active Community Team to promote a collective impact for systems change.
3. Engages families early in the SB process and ensures that their input is encouraged and valued throughout their court, child welfare, and SB journey.
4. Facilitates regular (monthly) SB Leadership Meetings, quarterly Active Community Team meetings, and workgroups (as needed) from a position of neutrality, to ensure a consistent, reflective space for community partner program leaders to provide specialized guidance, support, and perspective to help make informed decisions, navigate challenges, and optimize strategic planning to the systems collaboration.
5. Facilitates family team meetings (FTM’s) from a position of neutrality, to assist families with creative solutions to address barriers and serving as a liaison for identifying community-based resources and supports to mitigate circumstances that increased their risk for child welfare/court involvement. This also includes ensuring development and dissemination of essential case & programmatic communication & follow-up activities related to SB goals. 
6. Ensures ongoing, regular communication and collaboration with OHS Child Welfare leaders, ODMHSAS State SBCC, court systems, and child/family serving community partners for outreach, monitoring referrals & referral processes, evaluating community needs and barriers, and problem solving to expedite access for SB involved families. 
7. Ensures appropriate tracking of referrals and monthly activities for each SB case being monitored, maintaining an accurate, up to date spreadsheet on case progression, and preparing monthly report to ODMHSAS. 
8. Remains current on research/best practice in the field of I/EC mental health and development; Collaborates with others in the community to assess, identify gaps/needs, coordinate & implement training and technical assistance in regard to the SB approach, infant/early childhood mental health, parental protective factors, trauma-informed care, and other topics related to the needs of children, parents, and families. This includes ensuring accurate tracking of attendance and training evaluations for data collection and monitoring outcomes.  
9. Ensures compliance with agency and SB policies and procedures as well as grant, funder and program contracts; Reviews (at least annually) and implements revisions in SB job descriptions, SB handbooks, processes, workflows, etc.
10. Leads strategic planning, ongoing performance and quality improvements (PQI), data collection, outcome tracking, contract reports, and project evaluation; Assists with grant writing as requested; Ensures dissemination of monthly/quarterly and annual report information to stakeholders.
11. Supervise the Safe Babies Specialist position that is responsible for entering information into the ZTT database and the ODMHSAS RedCap system including assessments, client demographics, court and child welfare information, case progression, and program data, as well as facilitation of assigned Family Team Meetings, recording and distribution of meeting minutes, and monitoring of the SB email communication. 
12. Monitors and maintains assigned program budget and contract requirements, identifying needs and tracking expenditures against the allocated funds. 
13. Demonstrates the agency’s values of compassion, respect, learning, adaptability and achievement and have a good understanding of vicarious trauma and incorporating self-care strategies to manage exposure to challenging clients and difficult, traumatic stories; engage in reflective supervision/consultation with supervisor/consultant 1-2 times/month.
14. Escalate areas for improvement to supervisor or appropriate leader within community agency and as appropriate brings concerns to SB leadership to improve SB Leadership Team’s ownership of the systems collaboration; Assist with other related duties as assigned for the efficient operation of the agency and the SB community collaboration.

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Child Development, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or related field with at least two year’s work experience with at risk children/families, systems, and/or community coordination. 
2. In depth knowledge of infant/early childhood social-emotional development and the impact of trauma, including child abuse and neglect. Good knowledge of parental protective factors, ACES, interpersonal violence, mental health and substance abuse issues, generational trauma, poverty, and vicarious trauma. 
3. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and to coordinate the efforts of other team members to achieve goals while maintaining strong relationships with community partners, other professionals, clients/caregivers, volunteers, and other SB stakeholders.
4. Ability to assess and intervene within complex family and community systems. Must exercise good judgment under stress, emotional stability, tact, reliability, patience, creativity and flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.
5. Established skills in leadership, meeting facilitation, written and verbal communication, interpersonal relations, initiative and innovation, time management, reflective capacity, organization, team building, adaptability, ability to have courageous conversations while maintaining effective relationships, critical decision making, and a growth and development mindset.  
6. Good computer skills (excel, word, outlook, telehealth); good organization and assessment skills; strong ability to utilize program technology in an efficient manner such as typing to enter/review documentation in electronic health record within agency standard, entering assessment data, etc.
7. Valid Oklahoma driver’s license and a car for full-time business use.
8. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds to carry forms, parent-child activity materials, and basic need items to one’s car and to varying work locations including Juvenile Court, PCCT offices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Knowledge and experience with child welfare, ICWA, juvenile and family court functioning, including related policies, practices, and laws.
2. Skills in collecting, interpreting, and presenting outcomes and data.
3. Experience preparing and conducting community trainings. 
4. Master’s Degree in Education, Social Work, Psychology, or related field
5. Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement
6. Training & experience in providing and receiving Reflective Supervision / Consultation (RS/C) with a best practice model such as RIOS, CE-CERT, etc.