PARENT EDUCATOR MIDWEST HEALTHY START

Job description

Description: - Recruit and maintain a caseload of 50 participants and conduct monthly home visits with each participant on caseload. - Establish and maintain cooperative, trusting relationships with individual’s families, and clinical/community-based organizations. - Use language that conveys caring and is non-judgmental. - Identify and share appropriate Healthy Start information and encourage and/or navigate referrals to and from clinics, community-based organizations, community members, and current participants. - Use a range of outreach methods to engage individuals and groups in diverse settings. - Complete required assessments, including Healthy Start tools to better understand participants, their families and their communities. - Assist participants/families with creating goals that will be documented on an Individual Family Service Plan, which must be updated quarterly. - Screen and refer for substance abuse and postpartum depression treatment as indicated. - Plan and assist parents/caregivers with implementing developmentally appropriate home based activities. - Explain the importance of well child visits including immunizations, and assist participants in finding a medical...