Parent Educator - EHS

To apply via text, text the word "EHSEd" to 213-513-7223 Position Compensation: $ 26.76 plus excellent benefits. Pace offers a Total Rewards Package to its employees: 401k Vacation Sick pay 14 Paid Holidays Pet Insurance FSA - Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Affordable Medical, Dental, and Vision packages extended to your family as well. Supplemental Insurance Plans Opportunity to promote within, just to name a few. GENERAL INFORMATION: PACE Education provides high quality early childhood education with case management support services from birth to five years of age for economically disadvantaged families. In addition to early childhood education, the program also provides case management support to assist with health, nutrition, mental health, disabilities, and parent empowerment and involvement services. This program is funded and operated under Head Start, Early Head Start, State Preschool guidelines and regulations. PACE Education includes Head Start & Early Head Start Center-Based Program that operates 16 school sites enrolling children ages 18 months through age 5 at local preschool sites, including a Home-Based program serving enrolled children, ages 0-3 years and pregnant women. These services are provided in the metro Los Angeles area through Santa Monica and South Bay communities (Gardena, Torrance, Hawthorne, and Lawndale). BASIC FUNCTION: The EHS Parent Educator provides case management support services and appropriate child development activities to infants, toddlers, pregnant mothers, and their families. The primary role of the EHS Parent Educator is to establish a partnership with parents to develop and implement positive early childhood experiences for their children. CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage a full caseload, up to 12 families, conducting weekly, 1.5-hour Home Visits with parents and their enrolled child(ren): Work with parents to strengthen the family�s knowledge of child development, including helping parents understand how children grow and learn. Work with pregnant mothers and other expectant family members to help support a healthy pregnancy through the birth of their newborn. Plan and conduct educational activities with parents to meet the child�s intellectual, physical, emotional, and social needs. Work with parents to motivate and support to complete weekly home visits, up to 85% attendance, and participate in recruitment of children as indicated in the ERSEA plan to maintain a full caseload. Provides respectful customer service and collaboration with parents, children, community representatives /members, and all PACE staff on a daily basis. Manage educational services: Develop and effectively implement an individualized weekly home-based educational plan using a research-based curriculum that will support and strengthen a positive relationship between parent and child, promoting the parent as the child�s first teacher. Help parents set up an environment that is safe, developmentally appropriate, and conducive for learning. Provide learning and developmental and screenings for infants and toddlers (including DRDP-2015 IT, ASQ-3, ASQ:SE-2, etc.) for parents to complete, and support, and follow through with the developmental screening of infants� and toddlers� motor, language, social, cognitive, perceptual, and emotional skills. Document child observations weekly during home visits and socializations to manage developmental strengths and needs over a period of time across different settings. Help parents understand early child development and milestones, and include parents in managing and reporting their child�s developmental progress. Maintain an open, friendly, and cooperative relationship with each child�s family; encourage parental involvement in the program; promote parent-child bonding and nurturing parent-child relationships. Promote School Readiness Skills based on the agency�s current School Readiness Plan. Promote feeli…