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Bilingual Family Advocate
$64k-80k (estimate)
Full Time | Social & Legal Services
2 Days Ago
The New York Foundling is Hiring a Bilingual Family Advocate Near Bronx, NY
OverviewAt The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence. We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help our neighbors access quality health and mental health services core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.
The Family Advocate is a position of a peer who is able to support the program, families, clients, and youth in helping link families to access the best fitting services and supports, and has knowledge base about resources in the community and across child service systems.
ResponsibilitiesPosition Description:
The Family Advocate is a position of a peer who is able to support the program, families, clients, and youth in helping link families to access the best fitting services and supports, and has knowledge base about resources in the community and across child service systems.
ResponsibilitiesPosition Description:
- Carries a caseload of up to 25 clients for linkage support
- Splits time between office and identified schools in assigned borough
- Research, organize, maintain, and disseminate community resource information to clinician in ongoing fashion on clients’ communities.
- Research, add information, and facilitate trainings and workshops for school staff, families, and youth along with the Clinician
- Works directly with clinician(s) as well as with school staff, managers, internal and with some interactions with clients as directed by supervisor or clinician.
- Able to run groups and workshop with proper training and in collaboration with therapist.
- Supports with intakes to determine needed resources
- Assists in a case-by-case basis; researching and allocating resources to support school and the clinicians as directed by supervisor.
- Maintains current data base of community resources. Maintains up to date knowledge of resources in New York City.
- Participates in community outreach.
- Maintains effective working relationships and collaborative efforts with community resources, such as school staff, internal staff, and external agency staff.
- Flexible with participating in on-call rotation.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Bachelors’ Degree of Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, or the equivalent in a related field
- Lived experience related to mental health, child welfare, and/or use of community resources
- Minimum of 1-2 years experience
- Knowledge of community required.
- Excellent communication skills required.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Email, and Data entry systems (e.g. Connections).
- Ability to work cooperatively to ensure the best quality services are recommended
- Will be able to build and collaborate with community resource stakeholders
- An understanding and commitment to complying with the New York State Central Register of Abuse and Neglect protocol (requiring staff to comply with promulgated requirements to report any suspected abuse, maltreatment or neglect of any child).
- Technical assistance
- Family systems theory and application
- Social ecological theory and application
- Behavioral therapies theory and application
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy theory and application
- Pragmatic family therapies theory and application
- Child development research and it’s application in treatment
- Social skills assessment and intervention
- Demonstrated strong commitment to safety.
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
INDUSTRY
Social & Legal Services
SALARY
$64k-80k (estimate)
POST DATE
07/04/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
08/01/2024
WEBSITE
nyfoundling.org
HEADQUARTERS
NEW YORK, NY
SIZE
1,000 - 3,000
FOUNDED
1869
CEO
JODI SAITOWITZ
REVENUE
$50M - $200M
INDUSTRY
Social & Legal Services
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About The New York Foundling
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