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Experience Experience
Detroit, MI
Member & Family Advocate
Detroit, MI
Aufderhar LLC
Detroit, MI
Member & Family Advocate
  • Serves as a liaison and facilitator between members, staff, and representatives of social service agencies and others; maintains a barrier resolution process within and between the system partners to translate system successes and barriers into positive systematic changes
  • Maintain strict confidentiality
  • Participate in staff meetings
  • Follow up with area Emergency Department referrals
  • Support agencies’ policies and procedures
  • Teach and model positive parenting strategies
present
Houston, TX
Head Start Teacher / Family Advocate
Houston, TX
Graham, Greenfelder and Mueller
present
Houston, TX
Head Start Teacher / Family Advocate
present
  • Assist with the development and implementation of a crisis plan by collaborating with the team
  • Instrumental in completing provider satisfaction surveys
  • Work collaboratively as a member of the interdisciplinary team
  • Provide short term intervention to families
  • Provide referral and linkage to relevant community resources
  • Alert the clinical team of any lethality issues
  • Maintain timely progress notes
Education Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work
Seton Hall University
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work
Skills Skills
  • Assign and direct staff's work, providing timely feedback
  • Develop staff, parents and volunteer skills in working in the classroom
  • Link families with appropriate community agencies and services
  • Work in collaborative relationships
  • Efficiently manage time, tasks, and sharing of pertinent information
  • Work in a respectful manner with all children, parents and employees; comply with HS Program Performance Standards for managing child behavior and standards of conduct, and exhibit the attributes identified in the program's Professional Behavior Expectations, and Edmonds CC Workplace Civility and Respect Policy
  • While in the presence of children, assure the safety of each child by remaining alert and focused at all times, making quick and spontaneous decisions using problem-solving skills and good judgment based on organizational policies and procedures
  • Maintain the safety of the environment and children through visual, auditory, verbal, mobility and smell
  • Punctuality and consistent attendance are essential functions of this position; maintain consistent attendance as exhibited by no less than 95% attendance
  • Communicate in English (both orally and in writing) at a professional level with staff, clients, children, management, outside agencies, educational community, and the public in small to large group settings, one-on-one, or on the phone providing grammatically correct and content appropriate information suitable for diverse population
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Member & Family Advocate Resume Examples & Samples

  • Assists members with filing complaints, grievances or appeals; investigates high level/sensitive issues and complaints; assists recipients and their family members in obtaining the right behavioral and/or physical health services. Maintains confidentiality of observations, investigations and communications with or about recipients, recipient representatives and family members as appropriate
  • Facilitates and supports inter-agency meetings in which system issues are presented. Recommends practice adjustments, policy and procedure revisions, training and support in an effort to provide continuous improvement to elevate the patient experience. Appropriately escalates areas of stakeholder concern and recommends organizational changes to Manager
  • Participates in committees related to issues affecting the member experience, such as quality, compliance, network development and management and governance
  • Serves as a liaison and facilitator between members, staff, and representatives of social service agencies and others; maintains a barrier resolution process within and between the system partners to translate system successes and barriers into positive systematic changes
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Head Start Teacher / Family Advocate Resume Examples & Samples

  • Establish the classroom environment that supports successful implementation of the curriculum, assures child health and safety, and promotes a positive emotional climate and effective classroom management practices
  • Engage parents in classroom activities
  • Provide direction and feedback to the Assistant Teacher and Teacher Aide
  • Effectively plan, implement and evaluate classroom systems and plans, team communication and problem-solving; and
  • Ongoing monitoring for compliance with procedures
  • Conduct his/her work in a respectful manner with all children, parents and employees
  • Ensure the health and safety of all children
  • Maintain compliance with Head Start Performance Standards, program policies and procedures
  • Maintain child, parent, family and staff confidentiality
  • Accurately complete all required forms, paperwork and data entry in a timely, neat, readable and appropriate manner
  • Conduct all work relationships exhibiting attributes identified in Edmonds CC Workplace Civility and Respect Policy and in SCHS &EHS Professional Standards
  • Relate to and work with parents of diverse socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and educational backgrounds
  • Develop community and school relationships
  • Demonstrate proficient skills as measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) of no less than 6.0 in emotional support, 6.0 in classroom organization, and 5.0 in instructional support
  • Participate in the growth and strengthening of their early childhood education skills and knowledge through
  • Participating in ongoing training and professional development, including the use of video recording for coaching and feedback
  • Earning 15 professional development (clock) hours each year and
  • At the beginning of second year of employment, enrolling in a baccalaureate degree program in child development, early childhood education, or equivalent coursework
  • Within 18 months of hire, at a minimum, earn a credential or certification in social work, human services, family services, counseling, or a related field
  • Child development and developmentally appropriate practice
  • Strategies to ensure active supervision, safety and health in the classroom
  • Interactions and strategies to optimize emotional support, classroom management and instructional support, including strategies for working with children with disabilities, dual language learners and multilingual classrooms
  • Literacy and language development, including strategies for promoting English language acquisition for dual language learners
  • Early childhood screening and ongoing assessment
  • Strategies for successful transition for children into Head Start and from Head Start to kindergarten
  • Family assessment
  • Individualizing goals and objectives based on each parent's goals, interests, needs, culture, language, ability and temperament
  • Family literacy and language development
  • Child physical and sexual abuse, and child neglect
  • Factors affecting low-income families
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Community services and collaboration, resources, and referrals
  • Assign and direct staff's work, providing timely feedback
  • Develop staff, parents and volunteer skills in working in the classroom
  • Link families with appropriate community agencies and services
  • Work in collaborative relationships
  • Communicate effectively which includes the ability to establish trust and understanding, negotiate, compromise, express empathy, ask open ended questions, define a problem or need, build consensus, reach resolution, and if needed respectfully resolve a misunderstanding or conflict
  • Efficiently manage time, tasks, and sharing of pertinent information
  • Conducting and evaluating developmental and behavioral screenings, referring children with suspected disabilities to the Local Education Agency (LEA) for further screening
  • Conducting ongoing observations and assessments, using the results to develop and implement individual learning plans for each child and the class's curriculum, periodically evaluate and update as needed
  • Planning, conducting minimally 2 home visits and 2 parent-teacher conferences, evaluating results and updating children's education plans
  • Planning and conducting a parent-teacher conference for children transitioning into kindergarten and/or out of EHS into HS
  • Representing the child's Head Start educational experiences in conferences with other program staff, specialists, and/or agencies providing services under IDEA
  • Assisting parents in strengthening their engagement in the their child's learning through home learning activities, participating in center activities and volunteering in their child's class
  • Representing the parents strengths and needs with community agencies and services Represent the program while interacting with community agencies
  • Working with parents to identify and assess their family's strengths and needs, develop goals and strategies to reach their goals, and, as needed, provide resources and referrals
  • Identifying and establishing the child and family's medical and dental homes Assist parents in establishing medical and dental homes
  • Working with the FHS team to implement the tiered model for family services
  • Completing documentation, data entry, and reports in an accurate and timely manner
  • Co-leading the Classroom Education Team with the other TFA
  • Exhibiting strong organizational, record-keeping and documentation skills plus basic computer skills that allow the TFA to write, respond and send emails, establish and update work calendar, complete database entry and generate established reports, and create documents in a word processing program
  • Work in a respectful manner with all children, parents and employees; comply with HS Program Performance Standards for managing child behavior and standards of conduct, and exhibit the attributes identified in the program's Professional Behavior Expectations, and Edmonds CC Workplace Civility and Respect Policy
  • While in the presence of children, assure the safety of each child by remaining alert and focused at all times, making quick and spontaneous decisions using problem-solving skills and good judgment based on organizational policies and procedures
  • Maintain the safety of the environment and children through visual, auditory, verbal, mobility and smell
  • All staff must maintain Early Head Start & Head Start children and parents' confidentiality and handle child, parent and family information in a confidential, professional and sensitive manner, exercising appropriate discretion in sharing the information as outlined in program policies, procedures and on a need to know basis
  • Punctuality and consistent attendance are essential functions of this position; maintain consistent attendance as exhibited by no less than 95% attendance
  • Communicate in English (both orally and in writing) at a professional level with staff, clients, children, management, outside agencies, educational community, and the public in small to large group settings, one-on-one, or on the phone providing grammatically correct and content appropriate information suitable for diverse population
  • Operate a PC computer accurately inputting data and statistics into established spreadsheet, database and word processing programs and assigned work website; maintain required paper and electronic documentation, record-keeping and tracking systems. Operate other electronic equipment, such as a tablet PC and video camera
  • Use established databases, spreadsheet and/or word processing programs; generate documents and reports; and use e-mail system, calendar
  • Instruct children and adults in a classroom setting
  • Observe, compare, or monitor data and children's behavior to determine compliance with other prescribed standards
  • Comprehend and make inferences from written material
  • Produce written documents with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation and grammar
  • Set-up a preschool classroom that requires moving of child's size furniture, tables, chairs, shelves, and regular sized shelving units
  • Develop and implement and classroom systems and strategies to ensure that children are supervised at all times by keeping them within visual and auditory range, accounting for their whereabouts at all times, and ensuring that no child is ever left alone or unsupervised
  • Perform regular sanitation/cleaning of the classroom that may require the use of a broom, carpet sweeper, mop, vacuum, and the use of cleaning products
  • Drive a personal vehicle
  • An associate, baccalaureate, or advanced degree in early childhood education which includes supervised student teaching in a preschool classroom OR
  • A degree in a related field with an ECE major which includes 30 college credits in six or more courses (of no less than 3 credits each) in early learning/education PLUS a supervised student teaching experience in a preschool classroom
  • Experience teaching 1 full school year (minimum 9 consecutive months, does not include supervised student teaching) in a preschool educational program as the lead/head/primary teacher of a class of no less than 15 preschool age children; the preschool program must be in a licensed center, a Head Start/ECEAP/ same/similar program or a school district preschool/pre-K program
  • Three or more years' experience as a preschool teacher
  • Experience in a Head Start/ECEAP program working with children and parents
  • Additional professional work experience
  • Doing home visits
  • Working with low-income children and families
  • Working with a classroom of mostly non-English speaking students
  • Experience supervising classroom staff and parent volunteers
  • Work experience that required establishing/maintaining complex paper and electronic records, comprehensive documentation and establishing/updating client database
  • Current first aid and CPR certification
  • Spanish Language Proficiency – accomplish work with parents without the aid/support of an interpreter; proficiency will be tested
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Family Advocate Resume Examples & Samples

  • Work collaboratively as a member of the interdisciplinary team
  • Respond by phone and in the community (homes, schools) to crisis calls, and offer support, mentorship, and guidance
  • Provide referral and linkage to relevant community resources
  • Have working knowledge of and access to all available community-based resources that may be supportive to the family
  • Assist family in identifying psychiatric symptoms and warning signs experiences by the client
  • Assist with the development and implementation of a crisis plan by collaborating with the team
  • Teach and model self-help techniques/skills
  • Teach and model positive parenting strategies
  • Maintain timely progress notes
  • Alert the clinical team of any lethality issues
  • Support agencies’ policies and procedures
  • Maintain strict confidentiality
  • Participate in staff meetings
  • Support and encourage parent/guardian to advocate for their child’s needs
  • Follow up with area Emergency Department referrals
  • Provide short term intervention to families
  • Instrumental in completing provider satisfaction surveys