Family Advocate

Urban strategies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful engagement programs

Education discounts

Job summary

Urban Strategies is seeking a Family Advocate in the EHS New York program. The role focuses on ERSEA activities: enrollment, recruitment, eligibility, and attendance, with data management and interdepartmental collaboration to support infants and toddlers and their families.

You will assist families with community referrals and participate in the annual program self-assessment, ensuring compliance with Head Start standards while promoting family/community engagement throughout the program.

Qualifications

• Excellent oral and written communication skills; MS Office Suite proficiency.
• Working knowledge of local community resources for children Prenatal to age three.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and access to a personal vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Implement ERSEA system to track eligibility, recruitment, enrollment and attendance.
• Perform intake/registration and verify income eligibility and data accuracy.
• Develop and monitor family/community engagement plans aligned with Head Start standards.
• Assist with community referrals and collaboration across Health, Education, Disabilities, and Mental Health teams.
• Maintain documentation and prepare regular PIR data reports for program evaluation.

Skills

MS Office

Communication

Driver's license

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Family development credential

Related field degree (assoc/bachelors)

Job description

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Family Advocate

EHS New York-Operations Full Time Bronx, NY, US

Salary Range: $21.16 To $21.16 Hourly

Job Description: Family Advocate

JOB TITLE

Family Advocate

PROGRAM

Early H ead Start

REPORTS TO

ERSEA

SALARY

$21.16

LOCATION

Bronx

JOB TYPE

Non-Exempt

WORK SCHEDULE

Full-Time Position, Five days per week, 40 hours per week, 12 months a year

General Description

Performs all activities in the implementation of ERSEA (Enrollment, Recruitment, Selection, Eligibility, and Attendance) requirements ensuring responsiveness to the results of the Community Assessment and all applicable Head Start Performance Standards. Collects, inputs, and analyzes data into the child enrollment, health, and attendance systems. Assists in the development of policies and procedures for ERSEA and for prohibition suspension and expulsion. This position will also assist parents through a referral system to community agencies in cooperation with all other disciplines (Child Development/Disabilities, Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, and Administration). Assumes a key role in compliance with Head Start Performance Standards.

About You

The ideal candidate for our program is:

• A self-motivated and dedicated person who is excited and passionate about helping infants, toddlers, and families grow in development and in education.
• You are a personable, energetic, and empathetic leader who can manage multiple staff, managers, and multiple projects in a prior project in a prioritized manner to meet our internal Urban Strategies goals of all current Head Start Performance Standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED and completion of a family development or social services credential within 18 months of hire.
• One to three years’ experience working with families and children prenatal to three years of age.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; Advance MS Office Suite.
• Working knowledge of local community resources and health requirements for children, zero to three years of age.
• Must have Valid Driver’s License, Personal Vehicle, and Liability Insurance required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Family development credential, associate or bachelor's degree in social work, family services, human services, or in a related field.
• Work in a Head Start of Early Head Start program and knowledge of the Office of Head Start Performance Standards.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Engage in comprehensive, integrated planning with the management team:
• to create ERSEA goals/outcomes and a system of services that support the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance of infants, toddlers and that is responsive to the results of the community assessment.
• to create family and community engagement goals/outcomes and a system of services that aligns with the Head Start Parent Family Community Engagement Framework.
• to create a system of services that limits child suspension from the program and prohibits child expulsions from the program.
• to ensure the implementation of ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement throughout the program.
• to support ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager develop policies and procedures for the ERSEA and Family/Community Engagement system of services.
• Assist in the assessment of community, program, child and family needs, strengths, and resources in quality-of-life issues; compile and analyze data; produce reports; assure the integration of dual language learners, homeless children, children in foster care, and children with disabilities.
• Under the direction of the ERSEA/Family Engagement Manager, assist in tracking, reporting each child’s attendance and follows through with individual intervention in situations of chronic absenteeism.
• Assist with the development of the Community Assessment. Assist with the annual program self-assessment and federal onsite review process, focused on compliance with ERSEA and progress on family/community engagement; report on strengths, recommendations, required improvements; implement improvements and recommendations; incorporate into the program planning process.

POSITION SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: ERSEA

• Implement the system to track the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance of children to comply with federal and state program regulations.
• Assist in creating the criteria for the selection and enrollment of children assuring responsiveness to community assessment and reflecting data on dual language learners, homeless children, children in foster care, and children with disabilities.
• Perform intake/registration procedures for all families and ensures income verification and eligibility qualifications of children and families are met, and ensure applications are complete and data is accurately entered in the Child Plus database.
• Assure and maintain record keeping and reporting policies for waitlists, enrollment, attendance, timelines, schedules, and procedures in accordance with following designated state and federal program requirements.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring, tracking, follow-up, and analysis of enrollment and attendance data, and produce regular reports for management meetings.
• Assist in addressing any possible child suspensions and in the prohibition of expulsion and collaboration with Mental Health Services.
• Maintain enrollment forms, ensuring information is current, correct, and disseminated to all necessary staff to meet program requirements.
• Perform recruitment activities in response to enrollment data and waitlist data.
• Ensure full program enrollment and maintenance of a sufficient waitlist.
• Compile and submit Program Information Report (PIR) data periodically.

Family Service/Community Partnerships

• Implement the system for Family and Community Engagement Services.
• Implement a system of services, record keeping, and reporting of the Family Partnership Agreement and assure its alignment to the Parent Family Community Engagement Framework.
• Assist in being the program resource for consultation, information, and referral regarding community resources to staff and client families.
• Completes family service home visits and Needs Assessments

Health and Disabilities

• Support families obtain their infant/toddler’s health requirements, such as vaccines, annual health checkups, dental/oral health exams, etc.
• Follow up with parents and doctors on infants’ and toddlers’ health requirements, and ongoing health care, including access to a medical and dental home.
• Responsible for tracking and documenting health events in the program’s data management system.
• Conducts Health home visits, screenings, and assessments with families and pregnant women.
• Monitor children’s health reports and work collaboratively with the Health Services Team.
• Support the referral process for children with possible special needs and works collaboratively with the Education/Disabilities Team, teachers, and parents.
• Attending all Professional Development training required by the program.
• Completes other related activities and duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Ability to see at normal distance, hear normal conversations and sounds and use hands and fingers to fill out required forms. Ability to lift infants and toddlers weighing up to forty (40) pounds, twenty (20) pounds overhead and forty (40) pounds from waist to shoulder; occasional lifting of fifty (50) pounds is required and must be able to push/pull up to fifty pounds horizontally.
• Ability to sit on the floor, bend at the waist, kneel and/or stoop 75% of the time.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions as long as the staff disability does not create an undue risk of injury to any enrolled children in the classroom.

About Urban Strategies

Urban Strategies exists to equip, resource and connect faith- and community-based organizations so that all children and families can reach their full potential. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., our team serves in the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, and Central America.

COMPANY CULTURE

Our work is driven by our three core values:

• Authentic Relationships are foundational to our work and move beyond a transactional nature to truly know people. They serve as opportunities for mutual development and growth and are based on the belief that all people have inherent dignity and worth.
• Servant Leadership is rooted in an other-centric mindset that informs the way one leads and builds up individuals, families, and communities.
• Intentional Compassion describes a deliberate commitment to understand, formulate strategic responses, and activate others to reach their full potential.

BENEFITS

• Remote work for eligible positions.
• Medical and Dental is paid 95% by company and 5% by employee (individual or family).
• Vision is covered 100% (individual or family).
• 401K matched contributions up to 4%.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Vacation time is generous but varies depending on program and position.
• 9 Sick Days and 11 Holidays.
• Every teammate gets long and short-term disability free.
• Positions that require laptops, the company provides one.
• Positions that require cellphone, company issues one.

PERKS

• Meaningful employee engagement programs.
• Education discounts (BA-PhD) with a variety of education partners.

OTHER

• Employment is conditional pending satisfactory results of all required tests and background checks.

Urban Strategies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or other legally protected classifications under applicable federal, state and local legal protections.