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New Parent Support Home Visitor
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Posted 39 days ago
About the Role
The primary purpose of the position is to help young families develop skills to cope with stress, isolation, deployment, post-deployment reunions the everyday demand of parenthood to prevent child maltreatment incidents. New Parent Support Program services includeds support to each family's unique scircumstances and can help with preparing for parenthood, parenting skills, understanding growth and development, co-parenting communication and stress management.
What You'll Do
- →Provides support services primarily through home visitation designed to provide psychosocial and educational support and training to expectant parents and parents with children from birth to 3 years of age who are identified as at-risk for child abuse and neglect.
- →Provides in-office intervention services for eligible participants who due to mission readiness priorities or other confirmed situational issues are unable to participate in home visitation service.
- →Recommends and develops effective service plans based on areas of need and/or risk determined through screening and assessment tools.
- →Collaborates with the family and appropriate agencies to develop methods to achieve prescribed goals and enhance successful parenting.
- →Provides narrative summaries and updates to service plans showing case progress and plan of action.
- →Implements Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and/or CNIC New Parent Support Program (NPSP) standardized home visitation curriculum designed to build and enhance strengths that individuals and families bring to the parenting role.
- →Provides parenting skills, promoting a healthy pregnancy, promoting positive parent-child attachment behaviors, recognizing newborn infant cues/behaviors, understanding behavior through the lens of child development and promoting overall health family functioning.
- →Develops strategies that will enhance and support the needs and parenting challenges of fathers and their parent/child relationship.
- →Conducts fatherhood outreach efforts while collaborating with military and civilian stakeholders.
- →Facilitates interactive playgroup to help teach parents about developmentally appropriate play and help children improve their social, cognitive and motor skills.
- →When deemed approriate, serves as a consultant for Clinicla Case Staff MEeting (CCSM) cases that involve families with children from birth to three years of age.
Requirements
- ✓All transcripts, certifications and licensure must be uploaded with application for consideration.
- ✓A bachelor's degree or higher in behavioral or social science; or related discipline; Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling.
- ✓OR Completion of a degree from a program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP) AND at least two years of direct experience in the prevention intervention, or treatment of child abuse or domestic abuse, or the provision of maternal or child health support services.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 75599f6e-f105-4a7f-9e34-ff27c509094f
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