What are the responsibilities and job description for the High School Family Advocate- 25/26 SY, Akron CPHS position at Career Prep High Schools?
The Family Advocate works with students and families on Attendance and Retention. The Family Advocate works closely with the school?s support staff to determine best service outcomes for students/families and with the community and social service entities to assist in obtaining necessary resources, information, and assistance. The Family Advocate builds an organic awareness of the school by its continued engagement of community and social service entities.
Systems
- Advisory
- Discovery
- Goal Sheets
- Quick Access
- Retention
Accountable Functions
Advisory:
- Maintain a caseload of advisees
- Meet with advisees on a regular basis to review Success Plan and student IRC participation
- Participate in Career Check and Connect day monthly
- Facilitate the completion of the OMJReadiness Seal for advisees
- Teach and/or facilitate Industry Recognized Credential(s) within your building at a regular cadence during the CTE block of daily instruction
Discovery:
- Conduct the Student Needs Assessment as the first activity in Discovery
- Act as the school?s Homeless Liaison for qualifying students
- Act as an agent of Child Find and ELL identification
- Create a Credit Flex Plan or Flexible Schedule in conjunction with the Principal and Success Coach prior to exiting Discovery
Goal Sheets:
- Review daily Goal Sheet and calculate temporal equivalency to seat time for AIT.
Quick Access:
- Manage the AIT tab in Quick Access and documents:
- Triggering absence
- Three (3) meaningful attempts for parent/guardian participation on the team
- Date plan is created and implemented
- Student progress on the plan
- Additional attempts to retain the student
Retention:
- Manage the AIT process
- Develops the individual Attendance Intervention Plan for each student including all necessary documentation in accordance with HB410
- Conducts AIT meetings
- Logs EMIS reportable and non-reportable actions in the SIS
- Recommends withdrawal of students who are not demonstrating progress on their plan and who also have 72 hours of consecutive absences
- Implement Retention Strategies
- Performs Home Visits as a meaningful attempt during the AIT process
- Provides community connections to resources as needed to ensure student retention
Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinate events for family engagement
- Closely track attendance patterns and create solutions to poor patterns
- Identify students in need of support and make daily meaningful contact
- Always maintain a non-judgmental positive attitude celebrating student success
- Communicate with school staff and act as liaison between staff, students, parents, and the community
- Build and maintain network of community members, encouraging mutual referrals
- Communicate with school staff in a timely manner regarding student health concerns or any special family needs
- Attend conferences and workshops and provide school staff with training as needed
- Maintain confidentiality in all student and professional matters, and work professionally and cooperatively to achieve duties and responsibilities
- Gain general understanding of the academic needs of student while serving as liaison between student and teacher
- Engage community agencies and businesses that will provide services/ collaborate with the school on increasing its brand awareness
- Maintain positive relationship with former students and encourage re-enrollment
- Participate in school and extra-curricular activities as directed by the Principal
- Perform other job duties as the job demands
