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Child And Family Resilience Specialist
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- The Child and Family Resilience Specialist will focus on empowering and building a safe, trusting, and healing environment for enrolled Head Start parents/caregivers, with the purpose of promoting the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable Head Start children and their families through a journey of discovery, learning, and reflection.
- The Child and Family Resilience Specialist (CFRS), through the use of research-based prevention curriculum and tools, will focus on helping Head Start preschool parents to: nurture children’s social and emotional competencies including attachment/relationships, self-regulation, and initiative; strengthen their own social and emotional competencies; and learn parenting practices that promote children’s overall safety and well-being.
- The CFRS will also play an integral role in supporting safe, trusting, trauma-sensitive communication and collaboration among parents and site education and mental health teams with regards to protective factors, risks, and social-emotional support strategies and goals both at home and in the classroom/at school.
- Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, family studies, or related field (Master’s degree, MSW or MFT preferred), completion of Family Services Credential within 18 mo of hire and the UW-Madison Infant, Early Childhood, and Family Mental Health, Capstone Certificate, within 3 years of hire
- Experience empowering and building safe, trusting, and healing relationships with parents living in poverty and from diverse backgrounds
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