Peer Advocate-

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Education: High school diploma or GED.

Experience: Lived experience as a parent to a child aged 0–5.

Summary: The Peer Advocate is responsible for using sound professional judgment and best practices to ensure quality services are provided to the service population while maintaining compliance with established program standards.

To successfully perform this job, the employee may be expected to perform the following, with or without reasonable accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990:

Essential Functions:

• Outreach and recruitment of participants for Family Resource Center activities, including efforts for minimizing attrition.
• Establishes and maintains a trusting and professional working relationship with families by providing regular contact.
• Administer intake, assessments, and screening tools to clients and family members.
• Assessing family needs and referring to community resources as needed.
• Scheduling and planning family activities.
• With approval of the Lead Resource Navigator purchases basic needs/incentives for families as required.
• Serve as liaison for family to community resources.
• Meets with Lead Resource Navigator on bi-weekly basis to evaluate status of families on caseload.
• Conduct systematic follow-ups for all families.
  
  
  

Measurable Deliverables:

• Attend all required trainings and meetings.
• Develop together with Lead Resource Navigator and Resource Navigators updates, reminders, and program information on a quarterly basis.
  
  
  

Other Responsibilities:

• Work in conjunction with the Lead Resource Navigator and Resource Navigators.
• Use stated policies and procedures to report child abuse/neglect.
• Maintains familiarity and knowledge of community resources and uses these appropriately to meet needs of families.
• Conducts community outreach in educating parents, professionals, and others about the program and agency services, and child abuse awareness.
• Maintains confidential client files.
• Other job duties as assigned.
  
  
  

Requirements:

• Ability to establish rapport in order to maintain cultural sensitivity.
• Ability to carry out assigned tasks in an organized and timely fashion.
• Must maintain a clear criminal history check and report any incidents immediately to supervisor.
• Must be able to drive, provide and maintain valid Texas Driver’s License (Type C) and have access to reliable transportation.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office products: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• Ability to recognize the need for professional intervention, to be non-judgmental, to be motivated to learn from direct experience as well as from training and supervision.
• Possesses good judgment and reflects professional demeanor at all times.
• Must maintain agency telephone or other reliable means of communication so co-workers can be accessed in case of urgent needs.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing in both English and Spanish is preferred.
  
  
  

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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EEO Statement

In accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other applicable federal and state laws (e.g., the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity and treat all employees equally regardless of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, or any other classification made unlawful or prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws, such as age, citizenship status, veteran or military status, or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignments, benefits, layoff, and termination.

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