Family Support Coach Maple Terrace

Blueprints•Washington, PA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Blueprints is hiring a Family Support Coach at Maple Terrace in Washington, PA. This role is essential for recruiting and enrolling eligible children and families into Early Learning programs, ensuring full enrollment and compliance with funding requirements. The Family Support Coach will implement the Whole Family Approach and Coaching strategies to achieve positive outcomes for participants, including family, participant, and community engagement. This position involves establishing and implementing a family partnership agreement process, creating welcoming environments, and staying informed about community resources to support participant goals. Collaboration with program staff is key to providing a cohesive and comprehensive services approach. The role requires developing and sustaining relationships with participants through frequent, quality contact, fostering parent and family engagement, and specifically engaging fathers and male caregivers. Accurate and timely participant recordkeeping, including utilizing agency and funder databases, is crucial to meet federal, state, and program documentation requirements, such as Head Start Performance Standards. Participation in required meetings and training, which may involve out-of-town travel, is also expected. The Family Support Coach will be responsible for obtaining and forwarding documentation for Non-Federal Share/In-Kind to Blueprints Early Learning.

Requirements

Minimum (2) years of professional experience working with participants facing socioeconomic issues in a professional capacity.
Minimum (1) year of case management experience.
Bachelor or Associate Degree from an accredited college or university in Social Work or related field.
OR Certification in family services, social work, human services, or a related field with a minimum of two years of previous supervised work experience with young children and/or parents.

Responsibilities

Recruit and enroll eligible children and families for the Early Learning programs to meet and maintain full enrollment to ensure compliance with funding requirements.
Works in collaboration with the ERSEA and Home Base team (Specialists, Service Navigators, and Home Base Educators) to ensure all family services processes align.
Effectively implement the Whole Family Approach and Coaching throughout agency programs to achieve expected outcomes for participants, including family, participant, and community engagement.
Establish and implement a family partnership agreement process that is jointly developed and shared with participants in which staff and participants review immediate needs, individual progress, revise goals, evaluate and track whether identified needs and goals are met, and adjust strategies on an ongoing basis.
Create welcoming environments where participants feel valued, supported, and ready to contribute.
Stay up-to-date and well-informed about Blueprints, other community programs and resources to enhance and support goal attainment for participants.
Collaborate with program staff to ensure a cohesive, comprehensive services approach resulting in positive experiences and outcomes for participants.
Develop and sustain relationships with participants by maintaining frequent, quality contact (e.g., phone calls, informal contacts, meetings).
Foster Parent & Family engagement in programs.
Develop and implement targeted strategies to actively engage fathers and male caregivers in the Head Start program and their child’s development.
Meet federal, state and program documentation requirements by maintaining accurate, objective, complete, timely and well-organized participant recordkeeping including utilizing agency and funder databases.
Meet program requirements and other applicable regulations, e.g., Head Start Performance Standards.
Participate in required meetings and training opportunities which may involve out-of-town travel.
Responsible for obtaining and forwarding documentation for Non-Federal Share/In-Kind to Blueprints Early Learning.