Recruits and enrolls families.
• Plan and develop, with the parents, an individualized program for the family, including establishing a caring professional relationship and a climate of mutual trust and respect for the parents.
• Work with parents to strengthen the family’s knowledge of child development, including assisting parents to understand how children grow and learn, and planning and conducting child education activities with the parents which meet the child’s intellectual, physical, emotional, and social needs. • Implement agency approved curriculums.
• Conducts weekly home visits to families they serve as well as plans and facilitates socializations twice per month.
• Assist parents to strengthen their knowledge of community resources and support parents in problem solving.
• Maintains all record keeping forms and report information according to agency plans and procedures.
• Communicates with and meets the needs of families with infants and toddlers with disabilities or other special needs.
• Provides assistance to families to increase competency in the areas of positive parent child interaction, safety, nutrition, literacy, child growth and development.
• Help to link families to appropriate community resources and services and follow-up with the family on the outcome of the services.
• Completes family assessments and develops and implements an Individual Family Partnership Agreement based on family strengths and preferences within the first 30 days of enrollment.
• Responsible for entering data into COPA and Galileo.
• Compares prices of requested purchases;
• Prepares purchases for agency supplies and initiates request to supervisor;
• Participates in training, staff meetings, conferences and similar activities that promotes development of the program.
• Participates in professional development evaluation;
• Ensures, by working with the parent and community, that each child receives all appropriate screenings, assessments, and referrals and follow up to meet the Head Start requirements for medical, dental education, nutrition, social emotional and mental health.
- Must have an associate of arts degree in early childhood education, human services, social work, or related
