Early Head Start Home Visitor

Description:

• Conduct weekly 90 minute home visits with each family.

• Create and maintain respectful partnerships with families.

• Travel to family home and deliver health, educational, nutritional and child growth and development information to parents via weekly meetings.

• Provide support in parent and child activities that encourages developmentally appropriate activities for the changing needs of infants and toddlers.

• Help conduct bi-monthly socializations for infants/toddlers and their primary caregivers.

• Develop and utilize lesson plans (using Parents-As-Teachers curriculum & Creative Curriculum) which reflect both mandated elements and parental and cultural influences, and which promote the social emotional, physical, and cognitive development of Head Start children.

Responsibilities:

• Must be willing to travel within the Queens area daily/weekly (mostly around Corona) and at times work in an office at our Headquarters location in Richmond Hill.
• Plan and attend weekly home visits for up to 12 children & attend socialization groups 2x per month
• Conducting parent interviews and family needs assessments.
• Conducting developmental screening and assessments.
• Providing families with developmentally appropriate activities and information designed to enhance the child's intellectual, social-emotional, motor, and language abilities.
• Assisting with recruiting and enrolling eligible families in the program.
• Providing program parents with guidance on home safety, nutrition, effective discipline, constructive play activities, and other related topics.
• Providing information on community and agency services and referring families to community resources
• Build respectful, culturally responsive, and trusting relationships with families.

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