Child First Family Resource Partner

Coastal Horizons Center•Asheboro, NC

About The Position

Coastal Horizons is seeking a Child First Family Resource Partner to serve families in Guilford and Randolph Counties. The role provides community resource expertise to the Child First team and families, supports family assessment and stabilization, and helps caregivers strengthen executive functioning skills. The position involves home and community-based work, collaboration with a Therapist and Coordinator, and use of relationship-based approaches to support healthy attachment and child development. The Family Resource Partner participates in reflective clinical supervision and the Child First Learning Collaborative, completes assessments and documentation, and maintains the schedule and records needed to meet home-visiting benchmarks and accreditation standards. The role also provides mental health and developmental assessment and consultation in early care and education settings and participates in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

Requirements

Completion of a bachelor's degree; a degree in a human services field is preferred.
Meet requirements under 10A NCAC 27G.0104 as a Qualified Professional for Mental Health.
Experience working psychotherapeutically with culturally diverse children and families, including parent-child therapeutic work and play therapy with children ages 0–5, is highly valued; three years of experience is specified.
Be comfortable using computers and have experience with Word and Excel.
Have a reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits.
Have a valid driver's license and be able to work in community settings.
Be able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
Be able to work as part of a team.
Be highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible, including willingness to work non-traditional hours and at least one evening.
Have a strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of relationship-based and psychodynamic intervention, early child development, parent-child relationships, and attachment theory.
Knowledge of the effects of trauma and environmental risks on early childhood brain development, especially violence exposure, maternal depression, and substance abuse, as well as community-level risk factors such as poverty and homelessness.
Experience providing mental health assessment and consultation to early care and education sites.
Knowledge and experience working with adults with mental health, substance use, and cognitive challenges.
Experience providing intervention in diverse home and community settings.
Ability to speak a second language, such as Spanish, Portuguese, or Creole.
Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

Provide community resource expertise to the Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
Engage with families and the Therapist in collaborative family assessment, using interviews, observations, interactions, and standardized measures to identify strengths, needs, and challenges.
Promote family stabilization by identifying urgent and long-term needs, integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care, and addressing barriers to services.
Support caregivers in developing executive functioning skills, in consultation with the Therapist and Coordinator.
Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with caregivers to understand their motivation, needs, and potential barriers to services and supports.
Use videotaping to enhance therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
Use Abecedarian techniques to promote healthy attachment and child development.
Provide families with interactive, growth-promoting play experiences.
Participate in weekly individual, team, and group reflective clinical supervision with the Coordinator.
Participate actively in the Child First Learning Collaborative, including training, distance learning, and specialty training.
Track assessment completion and enter information into the appropriate database.
Maintain documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
Maintain a schedule and complete tasks to meet home-visiting benchmarks and accreditation standards.
Provide mental health and developmental assessment and consultation in early care and education settings and to other early childhood providers.
Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.