BENEFITS:

• Health, dental, vision
• vacation and sick time
• 4% 403(b) match after 2 years
• company paid life insurance and long term disability
• paid continuing education
• no weekends or holiday work

POSITION SPECIFIC DETAIL

Hours: 40 hours/week
Status: Full Time, Part Year *
Location: Great Beginnings Sun Prairie-1510 W. Main Street, Sun Prairie

Pay: $23.32

SUMMARY:

The Child and Family Resilience Specialist will focus on empowering and building a safe, trusting, and healing environment for enrolled Head Start parents/caregivers, with the purpose of promoting the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable Head Start children and their families through a journey of discovery, learning, and reflection.

The Child and Family Resilience Specialist (CFRS), through the use of research-based prevention curriculum and tools, will focus on helping Head Start preschool parents to: nurture children’s social and emotional competencies including attachment/relationships, self-regulation, and initiative; strengthen their own social and emotional competencies; and learn parenting practices that promote children’s overall safety and well-being.

The CFRS will also play an integral role in supporting safe, trusting, trauma-sensitive communication and collaboration among parents and site education and mental health teams with regards to protective factors, risks, and social-emotional support strategies and goals both at home and in the classroom/at school.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, family studies, or related field (Master’s degree, MSW or MFT preferred), completion of Family Services Credential within 18 mo of hire and the UW-Madison Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health, Capstone Certificate, within 3 years of hire
• Experience empowering and building safe, trusting, and healing relationships with parents living in poverty and from diverse backgrounds.
• Knowledge of trauma, effects and manifestations of trauma in adults and children, and trauma sensitive approaches to working with adults and children
• Knowledge of ACEs, resilience, and protective factors
• Experience working with Head Start and knowledge of Head Start Program Performance Standards preferred.
• Knowledge of early childhood development, particularly preschool 3-5 age group
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Have a valid Wisconsin Driver's License, motor vehicle and adequate liability insurance as required by agency policy and state liability regulations.
• Other duties as assigned.

*Part Year employees have built in vacations which include summer break, 2 weeks in winter, and spring break (part year staff follow the school district calendar in which their program is located)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.