Job Details
Eliot is seeking a bilingual Family Partner (English with Spanish, Arabic, Haitian Creole, or Portuguese) with lived experience as caregiver to a youth with special needs (preferably mental health needs). A candidate should have experience navigating child and family service systems & teaching families involved in those systems. They will engage with other caregivers using a wraparound approach to assist in meeting the needs of their child and family.
Responsibilities:
- Engage the parent/caregiver in activities in the home and in the community that are designedto address one or more goals on the youth's treatment plan or ICP.
- Assist parent/caregiver in meeting the needs of the youth through educating, supporting, coaching, modeling and guiding.
- Teach parent/caregiver how to network/link to community resources and treatment providers.
- Support parent/caregiver in advocating for services and resources to meet a youth's needs.
- Guide, support and foster empowerment including, linkages to individual, peer/parent support and self help groups.
- Participate on Care Planning Team (CPT) and attend CPT meetings.
- Participate in discharge planning.
- Meet with providers and attend all IEP, hospital discharge, treatment team and other relevant meetings.
- Provide telephone support and outreach to parent/caregiver.
- Make regular telephone and face to face contacts with collateral providers.
- Provide transportation to parent/caregiver as appropriate.
Schedule: Varies