Parent Coach - Safe Way Forward

Summary:

Safe Horizon’s Safe Way Forward program provides comprehensive trauma-informed client-centered services to families who are affected by intimate partner violence and are involved in the child welfare system. Our goal is help those who have experienced physical, emotional or other forms of abuse to establish long-term safety and healing from the effects of trauma. Safe Horizon uses a client centered, trauma informed, anti-oppressive approach to supporting clients.

Safe Horizon recognizes that families who have experienced intimate partner violence may want to or need to stay in contact with the person causing harm in the family. The Safe Way Forward program (SWF) was designed to engage family members with support to assist in healing and explore ways for families to maintain contact where safe to do so. In this model, all participating members of the family are considered clients (survivor, person causing harm, and their children).

Responsibilities:

• Learn and integrate a trauma-informed, client-centered approach, using an anti-oppressive lens, into your work with clients.

Essential Job Functions:

The Parent Coach plays a critical role in supporting parents in the Family Focused program. The Parent Coach will have experiences similar to those of program participants including past history of involvement with the Administration of Children’s Services (prevention, foster care, etc), or having witnessed/experienced family violence as a child.

Duties may include some or all of the following:

• Help engage families in services
• Participate in home, office and/or school visits with other Family Support Team members, where needed
• Support parents in the goal setting process,
• Help parents navigate public systems (housing, public benefits, family court); accompanying parents to appointment
• Co-facilitate trauma intervention groups
• Support parent to prepare for Family Team Conferences, support parents during FTC (as needed) and help parents process after FTC
• Commit to developing practice skills in accordance to Safe Horizon’s client centered, trauma informed, anti-racist approach
• Prepare for and participate in regularly scheduled FFP team case review meetings about new and on-going cases; where appropriate
• Attend trainings relevant to position
• Actively participate in individual supervision, in accordance with Safe Horizon’s quality supervision standards
• Maintain open communication with supervisors and team members
• Implement strategies for addressing vicarious trauma

Knowledge and Required Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and well organized;
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and also work on a team
• High school diploma/GED and two years of related experience or Associate Degree and one year of related experience

Strongly Preferred:

• Bilingual Spanish/English fluency

Other:

• Full time, some nights and weekends