Family Support Coach
CurrentLeads the two-generation social capital efforts.Utilizes all informal and formal opportunities to build and maintain relationships with families.Promotes parent leadership by actively including parents in planning and implementing activities.Facilitates networks and group activities that support families’ strengths, interests and needs.Promotes and build families’ knowledge of child development and parenting skills.Works collaboratively with parent leaders and center management team to coordinate fundraisers.Provides opportunities for families to engage in literacy and learning activities with their child.Observes and participates in the classroom as a strategy to support the center staff team and to share information with parents about their child’s development.Collaborates with the teaching staff to conduct home visits, parent/teacher conferences and parent meetings.Leads the internal planning and subsequent involvement of parents in all of their children’s program transitions, i.e. into the program, from EHS to PHS and from HS to Kindergarten.Develops working relationships with local schools to help coordinate the successful transition of children and families.Assembles a center-based transition team to assist with planning transition activities.Promotes good attendance using Attendance Works! Strategies and follows the proper procedures for documenting attendance in Procare and following up with families.Plans and coordinates the Parent Leadership Organization (PLO) with parent leaders and the center management team.Implements the Fostering Family Leaders Program or similar parent curriculums on an annual basis.Helps plan, facilitate or co-facilitate the Parent Leadership Organization (PLO) Boot Camp at least annually.Maintains appropriate documentation of all activities and records in the Sheltering Arms data base software as required by Sheltering Arms Policies & Procedures.Collects family tuition according to procedures.
