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FAMILY ASSISTANT - Brooklyn Workforce1 Career Center

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The Family Assistant recruits, monitors, and maintains full enrollment of children and families to reach 97%
daily attendance. The Family Assistant provides comprehensive family support and parent engagement
opportunities, and has knowledge of relevant regulations and frameworks. The Family Assistant works closely
with the educational staff to encourage and create opportunities for parent engagement in preparing children
for elementary school. The Family Assistant has knowledge of the new Head Start Performance Standards,
Head Start Act, Department of Health Article 47 regulations and the Head Start Parent, Family and Community
Engagement Framework.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


● Engage in recruitment activities on an ongoing basis and maintain a wait list of children ready with
updated physical to replace dropouts.
● Maintain 100% enrollment of Head Start eligible families, and no less than 85% average attendance
rate.
● Actively recruit children at risk including children with disabilities, children of military personnel,
children in foster care and children living in shelters.
● Ensure that all required documents are submitted by parents/guardians at enrollment including proof of
income, working hours, an updated medical and dental report complete with required immunizations,
medical screening, hearing and vision test results.
● Manage medical records for appropriate updates of immunizations, physical examination for referrals
and follow-ups.
● Build trust through ongoing communication in the family’s preferred language and establish
professional, strength-based family partnerships based on empathy and mutual respect.
● Work with families and set family well- being goals early in the year; to establish individual, written
family development plans with families.
● Work with families in identifying and accessing community resources to meet family well-being goals of
safety and stability, health/mental health, food security, employment, education, training, and prioritize
family needs.
● Maintain timely, detailed family contact notes on the Family Tracking System, Go Engage.
● Work collaboratively with Education staff to offer curriculum implementation workshops and other early
education activities
Organize parent orientation for their site, conduct Class Parent Committee (CPC) elections, Site Parent
Policy (SPC) elections in a timely manner, in accordance with organization calendar of activities and
Policy Council (PC) By-Laws.
● Ensure that monthly CPC and SPC meetings are held and to maintain on files accurate consistent
documentation complete with agenda, attendance sheet, and minutes.
● Work under the guidance of the Family and Community Engagement Director to offer families health
and dental education workshops, consumer and financial literacy workshops, nutrition, and other
workshops based on parents’ interests.
● Offer targeted parenting workshops and/or groups that will help improve parent/child relationships.
● Communicate with parents in their preferred language, in a timely manner all pertinent program
information.
● Keep educational staff informed about family issues that may impact child learning and social
emotional development.
● Willing to attend mandated training and professional development sessions; to have the desire to
become a life-long learner and keep informed on trends in the field of family development.


QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred
  • High School Diploma with Family Development Credentialing Program Certificate a plus.

EXPERIENCE:


Two years of experience providing strength-based social services to families.


SKILLS:


Bilingual (Spanish or Bengali preferred); must have excellent oral and written communication skills; knowledge
of community resources; proficiency with Microsoft Office, email and internet navigation; knowledge of Head
Start Performance Standards and Head Start Act, more specifically, knowledge and understanding of the
Family and Community Partnerships and ERSEA sections of the Head Start Performance Standards.
Experience with data input in electronic tracking system, data aggregation and analysis. Excellent
organizational and record-keeping skills.

  • Experience
    Required
  • Languages
    English – Advanced
  • Employment
    Full-time
  • Salary
    $16.5 – $19 hourly
  • Starting time
    Immediate start!

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