Bilingual Family Support Specialist - Passaic County
The Family Support Specialist supports the delivery of family-centered services at PMCH by coordinating daily activities, engaging with the community, and maintaining clear communication with colleagues and participants. This role contributes to program goals, tracks outcomes, and supports continuous improvement.
Essential Functions
- Outreach families referred through Connecting NJ or a Service Provider
- Conduct family-centered and strength-based Home Visits based on the assigned enrolled family’s level of service
- Conduct the FROG Scale (parent survey tool) with parents to identify strengths/risk factors to support the family throughout home visitation services
- Utilize Parents As Teachers curriculum to help improve parent-child interaction
- Assist in strengthening the parent-child relationship
- Assist parents in improving their skills to optimize the home environment
- Assist in increasing the family support system and increase the family’s ability to problem solve and assume the role of advocating for themselves and their children
- Assist the family in establishing goals and a plan for the accomplishment of those goals. The assessment of the normal growth and development of the target child
- Identify and refer to other supportive agencies, including healthcare appointments
- Assist with organizing and facilitating parent workshops
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.