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Eliot Community Human Services Bilingual Family Partner CSA in Saugus, Massachusetts
Description
Eliot is seeking a bilingual Family Partner (English with Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole, or Portuguese) with lived experience as caregiver to a youth with special needs (preferably mental health needs). A candidate should have experience navigating child and family service systems & teaching families involved in those systems. They will engage with other caregivers using a wraparound approach to assist in meeting the needs of their child and family.
Responsibilities:
Engage the parent/caregiver in activities in the home and in the community that are designed to address one or more goals on the youth’s treatment plan or ICP
Assist parent/caregiver in meeting the needs of the youth through educating, supporting, coaching, modeling and guiding
Teach parent/caregiver how to network/link to community resources and treatment providers
Support parent/caregiver in advocating for services and resources to meet a youth’s needs
Guide, support and foster empowerment including, linkages to individual, peer/parent support and self help groups
Participate on Care Planning Team (CPT) and attend CPT meeting
Participate in discharge planning
Meet with providers and attend all IEP, hospital discharge, treatment team and other relevant meetings
Provide telephone support and outreach to parent/caregiver
Make regular telephone and face to face contacts with collateral providers
Provide transportation to parent/caregiver as appropriate
Schedule: Varies
Compensation: $21.63/hour
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
Qualifications
Skills
Preferred
Computer Software Skills: Some Knowledge
Communication Skills: Intermediate
Administrative Tasks: Intermediate
Behaviors
Preferred
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
Motivations
Preferred
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
Experience
Preferred
1 year: Experience in navigating child and family service systems
Lived experience being caregiver to a child of a youth with special needs, preferably mental health needs.