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Parent Partner (My Community Cares)
Job Description
Would using your lived experience with the DCFS system to support and guide families be a meaningful next step in your professional path? The Parent Partner role offers an opportunity to use your stability and success to mentor parents, strengthen engagement, and promote positive outcomes within the child welfare process. This position values professionalism, empathy, and the unique insight that comes from firsthand experience.
Minimum Requirements
Personal experience with DCFS involvement
High School Diploma or GED
Valid driver's license
Core Competencies
Effectively demonstrate the understanding and practice of FRC program.
Communicate respectfully and effectively and establish professional relationships.
Promotes recovery, independence, and personal choice for participants.
Assists participants in identifying strengths, needs, and realistic goals to develop a service plan.
Accurately identifies risk and responds appropriately.
Demonstrates advanced knowledge of behavioral health symptoms, interventions, and impact.
Maintains professional boundaries and operates within agency /ethical guidelines.
Knowledge of agency and community resources and referral processes.
Job Duties/Skills Required
Schedule and maintain a flexible workweek to meet the needs of MCC families, scheduled program meetings and documentation responsibilities.
Maintain flexible availability to receive referrals. Ensure family intake sessions occur within 1 week of referral.
Provide consistent, quality peer support and advocacy services while maintaining fidelity to MCC program.
Maintain contact with relevant stakeholders and attend court and DCFS meetings for each MCC family.
Promote the agency/program within the community.
Meet guidelines for submission of notes into AWARDS electronic data system.
REQUIREMENTS
Ability to work with diverse individuals/families/populations.
Ability to exercise discretion and maintain client and employee confidentiality.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Requires working nontraditional, flexible hours, including evenings, weekends and holidays.
Work is performed in family homes, the community and an office environment.
Requires extensive travel and transporting families to scheduled appointments throughout the community.
Involves exposure to tobacco smoke, domestic animals, household pests, and other conditions common to home environments.
Benefits
Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, paid time off, 13 paid holidays per year for regular full time staff, 403(b), and 403(b) matching.
About Start Corporation
Start Corporation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1984. Our Mission is to promote opportunities, which enhance the self-sufficiency of people to empower them to live and function independently.