Position Title: Family Peer Specialist

Reports To: Early Education Support Coordinator

Classification: Part Time / Full Year / Non-Exempt

Status: Hourly

Range: $16.36 - $19.43 per hour.

Date: May 16, 2022

Summary/Objective: Responsible for implementing tasks below while understanding there may be other duties as assigned. Provides Early Intervention services and support to children, families, and staff to ensure compliance of Head Start Performance Standards including but not limited to providing mental health consultation in classrooms and home visits, training and coaching team members, screening, assessment, and referral services, as well as data collection and maintenance.

Essential Functions: Classroom/Child Contact

• Connect with each Home Visitor and HS/EHS assigned classroom at a frequency determined by supervisor to provide direct support, assess, and mitigate individual children's needs.
• Provide guidance and model developmentally appropriate activities for children and effective ways to work with and support young children.
• Provide written and oral observations and strength-based feedback to classrooms on an annual basis.

Home Visitation Observation:

• Accompany Home Visitors on visitations as requested and provide hands on support as deemed necessary.

Consultation:

• Provide consultation/feedback with families following each observation, classroom contact and/or home visit.
• Provide child development information related to social-emotional development and mental health.
• Ability to interpret and apply information from assessment and observations to directly support practices in the classroom.

Behavior Plans:

• Review classroom behavior plans with the assistance of supervisor and families and allocate support when needed.

Collaborate:

• Collaborate with assigned staff and families, including at multi-disciplinary team meetings to discuss mental health issues and strategies.

Programmatic Consultation:

• Participate in staff team meetings.
• Participate in the development and implementation of mental health program and policy as well as specialized services (IEP/IFSP) as deemed appropriate by supervisor.

Referrals:

• Refer children to supervisor for additional external supports as needed.

Trainings:

• Facilitate at least one parent training per year. Support, coordinate, and provide staff trainings related to social‐emotional and mental health issues as deemed appropriate by supervisor.

Assessment:

• Interpret and apply information, track, and score ASQ SE-3.
• Facilitate, track and score DECA social emotional assessments.
• Analyze and report on DECA outcomes as communicated by supervisor.