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REDWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC

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Parent Partner

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Job Title: Parent Partner
Department: Wraparound

Location: Eureka, CA
Status: Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Hours: 40 Hours per week
Salary: $20.31 - $24.69 per hour (DOE) / Additional Differentials Must Qualify
Open Date: May 18, 2026
Close Date: Open Until Filled

Pay Differentials Offered (must qualify through testing or verification):

  • Language Translation - Bi-cultural Spanish: $1.00 per hour
  • Bimodal Bilingualism - ASL Sign Language: $1.00 per hour
  • Bimodal Multilingualism - ASL Sign Language: $2.00 per hour

Overview:

Provides active, hands-on peer support to parents/caregivers or youth/clients receiving Wraparound services. An effective Parent Partner should be friendly, helpful, accessible and flexible. Must be the biological, adoptive, kin parent or non-related family member of a youth with emotional or behavioral challenges or has had systems experience with their child in a child serving system. Must have life experience as the parent of a youth with emotional or behavioral challenges.

Please share your lived life experience in your cover letter. Because this information is so vital, applicants without a cover letter will not be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Teaches skills for parents to be able to effectively participate in the Wraparound process.
  • Builds hope for families and clients.
  • Effectively/professionally connects with client/family on a personal basis to build trust with client and family.
  • Participates collaboratively in identifying potential team members and developing motivational techniques to ensure commitment to the team.
  • Understands and explains the parents’ perspective, culture and beliefs in a way that increases understanding by others, while decreasing differences and highlighting similarities.
  • Assesses the level of support needed by parent based on the family’s support network, their ability to involve their support networks, and the ability of the parent to be heard by others.
  • Meets with family regularly and consistently to encourage and support an understanding of their vision for the future.
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