Family Services Associate - Pasadena, United States - Pacific Clinics Head Start

Description

Who We Serve:

Pacific Clinics serves children, transitional age youth, families, adults, and older adults.

We offer a full range of mental and behavioral health services, foster care and social services, housing, continuing adult education and early childhood education programs to Medi-Cal eligible individuals and families.

Our diverse staff provides culturally and linguistically relevant services in over 22 languages to our region's culturally and ethnically diverse populations.

We provide services in 18 counties across California.


Who We Are:

Pacific Clinics is California's largest community-based nonprofit provider of behavioral and mental health services and supports.

Its team of more than 2,000 employees speak 22 languages and are dedicated to offering hope and unlocking the full potential of individuals and families through culturally-responsive, trauma-informed, research-based services for individuals and families from birth to older adults.

The agency offers services in 18 counties including Alameda, Contra Costa, Fresno, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Orange, Placer, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus, Stockton, Tulare and Ventura.

What We Offer
- _We Offer Medical, Dental & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more_
- _Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve._

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

• Works with parents to develop family partnership agreements and carry out follow up plans.
• Participates in inservice, workshops, conferences and college courses to enhance skills.
• Recruits prospective families and assists with enrollment process. Monitors attendance and does follow up accordingly.
• Conducts home visits as needed to facilitate family plans, assists families in achieving identified goals and followup on referrals.
• Acts as a case manager and works cooperatively with local agencies to assist families to linkup with services in the local community.
• Assists with the completion of the child health screening, other required screenings and assessments and is familiar with referral requirements.
• Conducts and documents followup on all referrals.
• While respecting family confidentiality, shares information with teachers to ensure coordinated services that meet the needs of individual children and families.
• Provides health, safety and family literacy activities to parents, as appropriate.
• Coordinates with center staff to promote parent engagement in the program as a classroom visitor, volunteer, and/or participant in family events.
• Promotes effective community support for families by coordination and advocacy for services with community agencies.
• Develops a working knowledge of community resources and partnership building in the community. Refers families for emergency or crisis assistance.
• Coordinates or refers families to opportunities for continuing education, employment training and other employment services through formal or informal networking in the community.
• Provides family needs assessment that includes consultation with parents about the benefits of parent engagement and activities in which parents may choose to participate.
• Arranges for education and other appropriate intervention including opportunities for families to participate in counseling or to receive information on mental health, substance abuse, child abuse and neglect and domestic violence.
• Attends parent/teacher conferences, as requested.
• Assists teaching staff with Parent Committee meetings, Family Nights, socializations and other parent activities.
• Assists families in making the transition into and out of the Early Head Start/Head Start Program.
• Documents efforts to assist families in identifying their strengths, needs and sufficiency goals. Performs data entry functions as necessary to keep files uptodate. Uses COPA or other database software.
• Submits reports as needed and requested, such as monthly summary tracking reports, follows up with families to determine if services received through referral met the their expectations and circumstances.
• Maintains and provides data for the annual Program Information Report (PIR).
• Attends all workshops and meetings as deemed necessary by the immediate supervisor.
• Attends all required staff and parent meetings and activities.
• Positively promotes Head Start in the community.
• Maintains strict confidentiality with respect to Head Start/Early Head Start children, families and staff in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Evaluates family needs, formulate service plans, and ensure delivery of services.
• Exhibits patience and tact when communicating with children, families, staff, management, referral sources and the public.
• Reports to work on time and maintains reliable and regular attendance.