Outreach Worker
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$ 27000 - 32000
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TITLE:Outreach Worker
DEPARTMENT:Youth and Community Development Services
LOCATION:Williamsburg Brooklyn
PROGRAM:Community Schools Initiative
REPORTS TO:Community School Director
SALARY:Full Time$32000This position is performance based and is also contingent on funding availability
DATE: July 2024 June 2025
Schedule: Mon Fri; Some Saturdays Scheduling may vary due to needs of the program.
JOB SUMMARY:The outreach worker will work closely with families and Community School staff to support Community School Attendance Initiatives. The outreach worker will help support parents skills parentchild relationships family relationships and parentschool communication to increase student attendance. The outreach worker is responsible for initiating and maintaining a regular and sustainable supportive relationship with highrisk families via homebased services. The outreach worker will ensure optimal academic social and emotional development of both parents and students. The outreach worker will work closely with the Community School Team (director social worker program coordinator and tutor) to provide resources that will enhance the Community School. Staff member would need to have a working reliable computer.
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE AND SKILL REQUIREMENT:
- High school diploma required; Bachelors degree preferred
- Two years or more experience in the field of youth development
- Family outreach and home visit experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent documentation skills
- Facility to motivate others toward achieving goals
- Ability to develop alliances with high risk and difficult to engage youth and families
- Knowledge of community resources and counseling practices with high risk populations
- Outstanding collaborative skills
- Bilingual Spanish/ English is preferred.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and maintain thorough written record of assessments attendance outreach efforts and all required documentation
- Work collaboratively with community resources to establish timely and effective referral processes
- Maintain ongoing open communication with school principal parents and schoolbased staff
- Through home visits engage families and develop relationships between school and families of students identified as the targeted population (Atrisk and chronically absent students). (Minimum 3 home visits per week).
- Partnering with families to create family goal plans that increase student attendance and enhance parent and child well being
- Maintain written records of home visits family goals and all required documentation
- Implement Success Mentors program to improve attendance initiatives. Success mentors are the most successful strategy for combating chronic absence. Success Mentors are caring adults (or peers) who mentor chronically absent students to identify the barriers preventing them from attending school each day.
- Assign Success Mentors to chronically absent students. Help Success Mentors understand that any topic is worth discussing! The idea is not for a Success Mentor to have the answers but for the mentee to talk about and explore ideas.
- Implement attendance incentive programs. Hold award ceremonies for improved attendance create an attendance going culture and manage incentive programs (ex. trips gifts shirts).
- Work collaboratively with community resources and advocate for families when necessary
- Refer participants to social worker for counseling to support with crisis intervention and safety planning
- Participate in ongoing efforts to advocate for program needs via community coalition building and via administering feedback surveys and program assessments
- Seek partnership opportunities and bring in at least 3 new partners a year to leverage resource to support programs
- Work closely with social worker tutor and case manager to support targeted student needs
- Attend all required department/ agency meetings and/or trainings
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Community School Director and/ or Community School Social Worker
HOW TO APPLY
Please send cover letter and resume to Amanda Polster Community School Director at . List Outreach Worker Position in the subject line. Also provide three professional references that can be contacted (at least one should be a former supervisor). Please no phone calls.
*Community members from East New York and the greater Brooklyn area are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
Employment Type
Full Time
