Community Education Worker

Oregon Health & Science University; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Latino Network seeks Community Education Workers to provide culturally specific home visits, parent-child groups, and wraparound services for families from low income communities of color. The role focuses on promoting enrollment in preschool, early literacy, brain development, and family advocacy.

CEWs support access to resources such as housing, WIC, and Head Start, while promoting school readiness and partnerships with caregivers, teachers, and health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide families with one-on-one visits, parent-child groups, classes, and events, with developmental screenings for prenatal to age five.
• Conduct ASQ screenings for children from infant to five years old.
• Participate in curriculum development for CEW certification/Changemakers Training.
• Co-facilitate CEW certification classes.
• Attend Steering Team meetings monthly.
• Coordinate and facilitate culturally specific parent-child class series with the team.
• Support coordination of the parent leadership initiative and community-based leadership opportunities.
• Conduct activities that build Kindergarten readiness.
• Engage in systems change work related to education, equity, and public health.
• Identify and help address barriers to primary health care, including dental and mental health care.
• Connect families to social services and health services.
• Support families to attend school activities and facilitate positive relationships with staff.
• Support early Kindergarten registration for five-year-olds by Sep 1; bridge cultural and linguistic barriers for enrollment.
• Meet deadlines for mileage, reimbursements, and timesheets.
• Collect qualitative and quantitative data for monthly and quarterly reports.
• Comply with HIPAA and confidentiality laws.

Job description

Latino Network’s mission is: Leading with love, we cultivate our staff and community as a powerful force for radical social change. We do this through Latino community-driven programs, advocacy, and service. Our work springs from the core belief in Latino community self-determination, that is, the ability of community members to participate meaningfully in the decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their families. We actively partner across a variety of city, county, state, and community organizations to deliver training and support, a wide range of services, as well as influence policy.

POSITION SUMMARY

Community Education Workers will provide families with culturally specific home visits, parent-child groups, holistic wraparound services, and parent and community leadership development opportunities. The Community Education Worker (CEW) Program began as a community-driven initiative to train community members as CEWs who partner with parents and caregivers of babies and young children from low income communities of color to remove structural and social barriers facing families. Community Education Workers will actively promote and build family stability, including access to a variety of resources and services which economically empower families such as housing, WIC, Head Start etc., parent and caregiver skills for navigating the educational, social services and health systems, and for advocating for their children’s needs, healthy prenatal and early childhood development in all developmental domains, enrollment in preschool services and kindergarten, parent and caregiver knowledge about early literacy, brain development and attachment, and support for access to culturally responsive and culturally-centered services to address these developmental delays through screening and follow-up referrals.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide families with one-on-one visits, parent- child groups, classes, and events, and providing developmental screenings for children prenatal through five.
• Conduct ASQ screenings for children infant through five years old.
• Participating in curriculum development for the CEW certification/Changemakers Training.
• Co-facilitate one or more CEW certification classes
• Participate in Steering Team meetings monthly
• Coordinate and facilitate culturally specific and culturally centered parent-child class series in collaboration with the team. Sessions should cover all required curriculum topics identified by the CEW Supervisors Team and/or Steering Team.
• Support the coordination of the parent leadership initiative, and cultivating community-based parent leadership opportunities for parents.
• Conduct parent-child activities that build Kindergarten readiness
• Participate in systems change work, community organizing and other efforts that pertain to education, equity, and public health
• Identify and assist with addressing barriers to primary health care including dental and mental health care.
• Connect families to social services and health services
• Support families to attend school activities designed to facilitate positive relationships, successful transitions, and strong parent/staff collaborations.
• Support early Kindergarten registration for children who will be five by September 1st by providing outreach to communities in the spring and summer. CEWs will be able to help families to bridge cultural and linguistic barriers in order to participate in school kickoffs prior to the start of school or to bring families individually to connect them to the school for enrollment.
• Meets deadlines for mileage and program expense reimbursements and timesheets
• Meets deadlines to collect qualitative and quantitative data for monthly reports and quarterly progress reports.
• Comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and existing confidentiality laws.