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Family Engagement Specialist | ||||||||||||||||||||
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YMCA of Greater St Petersburg
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Description The Family Engagement Specialist is responsible for building relationships and integrating parent and family engagement strategies into program services in order to support family well-being and promote children's learning and development. Collaborative, positive, strengths-based, and goal-oriented relationships between early childhood professionals, families, and children must be maintained. Creates and sustains ongoing partnerships with social service agencies that support family well-being. Primary Responsibilities: • Meets with families to evaluate social service needs to help create family goals of stability, education and interaction. • Engages families in a large number of activities and events as well as support families in finding resources that meet a variety of their social service needs. • Connects families with vital programs and services, such as the Department of Human Services, Adult Basic Education, Pinellas County Economic Development Commission, and agencies as appropriate • Establishes and maintains cooperative working relationships with prospective families and community partners. • Coordinates with center staff to integrate family partnership goals with classroom efforts and to ensure integrated child and family curriculum. • Participates in team management functions of planning, implementing and evaluating family and community engagement goals and objectives. • Recruits prospective families and assists with enrollment process. • Works cooperatively with local agencies to assist families to linkup with services in the local community. • Provides health, safety and family literacy activities to parents, as appropriate. • Develops a working knowledge of community resources, and visits, at least bi-annually, with major agencies for service delivery and community resource guide updates. • Provides backup classroom coverage for preschool. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Skills • Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Human Services or related human services field. • Minimum one year of experience working with children and families in a social services environment. Preschool experience strongly preferred. • Knowledge of social services and health services available in the Pinellas County area. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes Please visit the Employment page of our website to apply. https://www.stpeteymca.org/job-openings | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Contact Details State/Province: Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||