Job Summary:

Incumbent helps families become self-sufficient and provides an environment where adults and children can develop to their fullest potential.

Major Responsibilities/Activities:

• Develop Family Partnership Agreements (FPA) and make referrals to agencies. Serves as advocate for families to accomplish goals set in FPA. Provide on-going contact and follow up with families.

• Provide information on community services, follow up services, and make referrals to assure delivery of needed services for families served.

• Collaborate with Head Start parents and service providers to ensure children receive required screenings and examinations and follow-up treatment.

• Track Health services for children.

• Maintain confidentiality of all child and family records.

• Co-facilitate Service Delivery Team Meetings with Teachers and Teacher Assistants.

• Perform recruitment, selection and enrollment functions including publicity, answering questions, assisting with completing applications, input application data, and preparing acceptance letters, and completing classroom assignments in collaboration with Center Manager.

• Develop and maintain a waiting list and fill vacancies within thirty (30) days.

• Ensures entry of information on families to Child Plus system.

• Assist with Parent Orientation.

• Record and monitor monthly attendance. Contact families when children are absent three (3) consecutive days without prior notification and excused absence.

• Confer with and counsel parents as needed.

• Maintain thorough, accurate, and up-to-date social service records on assigned Head Start families.

• Contact Family Partnership Specialist to identify inadequacies of existing community resources and/or the need for additional services; advocate for improved or new services.

• Coordinate transportation through Center Manager for children and/or parents to screenings, treatment and therapy appointments and/or services, and meetings as needed.

• Provide information for and assist in the distribution of program and parent newsletters.

• Keep the Family Partnership Specialist, other Specialists and Mentor Teachers, (as appropriate) regularly informed of service area activities being planned and implemented.

• Be available to assist the Specialists, Center Managers, and Teachers to carry out programmatic decisions to implement the Head Start program.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Center Manager.