Family Advocate
Seeking Family Advocate. Bachelor's degree or related work experience required. Daytime/evenings/weekends. Part-time and full-time opportunities.
Job Description Title:
Family Advocate Reports directly to: Family Support Coordinator Job Description: The Family Advocate is responsible for the engagement, intake, assessment, internal triage, and case management for families seeking services at Community Partnership (CP). The Family Advocate works with families to create positive and long-term growth aimed to improve safety, stability, and self-efficacy. The advocate provides services from trauma-informed, strength-based, solution focused, and culturally-responsive. Case management services includes assisting with client goal setting, service/referral/resource navigation in the community, regular face to face visits at CP, in family homes and in the community.
Additionally, advocate duties include mandatory reporting, collaboration with local community partners and internally with CP program staff, monthly progress reports, data entry forms and, the Family Advocate must also adhere to program grant requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
- Contact all families and actively encourage enrollment and continued engagement in
- Family Development Program. Carries a caseload of 20-30 families with identified vulnerabilities at all times.
- Connect with families on a regular basis to empower families through family-centered comprehensive case management, provide connections to community-based services and supports and basic needs assistance.
- Together with families, set goal: roadmap necessary resources for goal attainment, and by using the Colorado Family Supports Assessment 2.0.track progress towards goals
- Partner with families, through the use of the National Standards of Quality far Family and Support, to provide high quality services that will increase family stability and prevent child maltreatment by strengthening proactive factors.
- Provide advocacy for families enrolled in Family Development Services, both internally at o CP and externally to community entities, which provide services to the families (based on families' needs, including but not limited to welfare and public benefit agencies, landlords, and educational entities).
- Provide information for services after family needs and goals assessment are complete.
- Community referral sources include those that meet the basic, safety, social, esteem, and cognitive needs of individuals within the family unit and/or the family as a whole. Intensive follow-up required for any referrals provided.
- Maintain organized client files, program records and update the Efforts to Outcomes and o Family Development required databases regularly to track program effectiveness
- Report weekly to supervisor including information on number of families accepting services, client visits completed, family goal progress, internal and external referrals, follow-up, referral is and case closures.
- Support and attend CP-wide outreach events to promote all programs.
- Ensure completion of all program required forms and evaluations.
- Achieve and maintain all required Family Development training and certifications.
- Work within program deadlines and budget guidelines for Family Development services.
- Prepare and/or assist in the preparation of all program, grant and organizational reports.
- Participates in staff team meetings, weekly individual supervision, and additional agency meetings.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested with a sense of humor and team spirit.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree is preferred.
- Two years of experience working in the human services field with direct client interaction or any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.
- Experience working with families from a wide spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds.
- Knowledge of community resources and systems.
- Ability to work in a team environment yet is self-directed, as required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills. o Strong planning and organizational skills.
- Ability to multitask and meet multiple deadlines.
- Computer proficiency, including MicrosoR Office Suite.
- Reliable transportation and government issued identification.
- Passion for the mission of Community Partnership.