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Kimball Day Care Agency - Chicago 

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Quincy Public School District - Head Start

Accountabilities: Regularly review and evaluate program services while proactively ensuring compliance with existing and new regulati ...

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Accountabilities: Regularly review and evaluate program services while proactively ensuring compliance with existing and new regulations. The Mental Health Specialist must ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and guidance, including Illinois professional licensing and certification requirements, Head Start Performance Standards, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Licensing Standards, and the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Coordinating/overseeing the delivery of behavioral and mental health services consistent with contractual agreements, laws, regulations, and standards requirements.
 
Adhere to internal and external policy, procedure, and best practice

• DCFS Licensing Standards
• Head Start Performance Standards
• Child and Adult Care Food Program
• OSHA
• T.C.O.C. Early Head Start/Head Start Policy and Procedures
• T.C.O.C. Human Resource Policy and Procedures

Support the mission, goals, and objectives of the Tri-County Opportunities Council Community Action Agency and, more specifically, the Early Head Start/Head Start program.

Essential Duties: Oversee the mental health services within the T.C.O.C. EHS/HS program. Lead program-wide initiatives that promote culturally responsive and equity-based social-emotional practices. Model age-appropriate social-emotional interactions and facilitate staff training and individualized professional development supports. Provide trauma-informed care training and ongoing support to staff and enrolled families. Guide positive caregiving practices to enrolled families through mental health consultation, parenting classes, and other topics identified. Arrange program and site-level service coordination to meet the needs of children, families, and staff.

• Create physical and cultural environments that promote positive mental health and social-emotional functioning
• Assist staff in effectively managing classrooms and creating positive learning environments
• Coordinate and oversee the development, implementation, and monitoring of positive guidance approaches for children presenting social-emotional challenges 
• Ensure family engagement and partnership in the initial and ongoing support of their child’s social-emotional growth.
• Maintain open communication and collaborate with education, health/nutrition, and family service staff to ensure a full child assessment is completed on a child needing additional social-emotional supports
• Ensure collaboration with program families on the development, implementation, and review of an individual plan to meet their child’s needs (SESP)
• Use classroom/home visit observations and consultations to address teacher, classroom, or individual child needs
• Solicit ongoing feedback from staff, legal guardians, parents, and community partners, participating in quality assurance planning, data collection, analysis, and follow-up.
• Build community partnerships to facilitate access to additional mental health resources, interventions, and services as needed. (HSAC)
• Serve as liaison with other agencies and participate in local, regional, and state initiatives

A bachelor’s degree in counseling, social work, sociology, psychology, or human services is required. Applicant must also have a Certified Mental Health Provider certification or State of Illinois Licensure. Special training or experience in mental health, trauma-informed care, child development, and working with vulnerable populations is preferred.
 

Full Time/Full Year Position. Reporting to T.C.O.C. Head Start Director.

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Accountabilities: Integrate parent and family engagement strategies into systems and program services that support family well-being, ...

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Accountabilities: Integrate parent and family engagement strategies into systems and program services that support family well-being, promote children’s learning and development, and increase the likelihood of individual and family stability. Establish and maintain ongoing collaborative relationships and partnerships with community organizations that lead to the regular recruitment and enrollment of eligible pregnant persons and children ages birth to five.
Adhere to internal and external policy, procedure, and best practice

• DCFS Licensing Standards
• Head Start Performance Standards
• Child and Adult Care Food Program
• OSHA
• T.C.O.C. Early Head Start/Head Start Policy and Procedures
• T.C.O.C. Human Resource Policy and Procedures

 Support the mission, goals, and objectives of the Tri-County Opportunities Council Community Action Agency and, more specifically, the Early Head Start/Head Start program.

Essential Duties:

• Use strength-based attitudes and reflective practice to engage families
• Evaluate family well-being, including but not limited to family health, safety, and economic stability, by using the Family Partnership Agreement process
• Work together with families to set family goal/s. This is done through identifying skills, assessing strengths, examining stressors, exploring strategies, tracking progress, and celebrating successes
• Collect and log high-quality data to track progress toward family outcomes
• Establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with community organizations that connect children and families to community resources (for example, medical, dental, and MH professionals, school districts, homeless liaisons, food pantries, and homeless shelters)
• Locate, contact, and recruit eligible families through active and regular PR efforts
• Determine, verify, and document family eligibility. Once enrolled, ensure the child/family are actively engaged and have regular attendance.  
• Track and enter data (for example, parent gauge responses, transition-related activities, family contacts, PIR information, referral and referral results)
• Collect, review, approve, and generate sources of non-federal dollars.
• Facilitate family engagement events, parent committee work, and policy council reporting
• Implement parenting curriculum to fidelity

As prescribed in section 1302.91(a)(7) of the Act, a program must ensure staff who work directly with families on the family partnership process hired after November 7, 2016, have within eighteen (18) months of hire, at a minimum, a credential or certification in social work, human services, family services, counseling, or a related field.

This is a non-exempt, hourly position. The weekly and yearly employment schedule is based on site assignment and program needs.
Ottawa, IL Position is Full Year. Rochelle, IL Position is Part Year (9 months).

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Educare of West DuPage

El Valor Early Childhood Education

Embarras River Basin Agency, Inc/ERBA

Evanston/Skokie Community SD 65

Governors State University Early Head Start

Heartland Head Start 

Henry Booth House

Howard & Evanston Community Center

IDHS Migrant & Seasonal Head Start

Illinois Action for Children

Illinois Valley Economic Development Corp/IVEDC

Kankakee School District #111

Metropolitan Family Services - DuPage

Mount Vernon School District #80

Northwestern Illinois Community Action Agency/NICAA

Parents and Children Together/PACT 

Peoria Citizens Cmte Economic Opportunity/PCCEO

Project NOW, Inc

Proviso Leydon Council for Comm. Action/PLCCA

Reg'l Planning Comm./Early Childhood Educ. Prog.

Riverbend Head Start & Family Services

Rock Island-Milan School District

SAL Family and Community Services

SIU-Carbondale Head Start

SIU-Edwardsville Head Start 

Southern 7 Health Dept. Head Start

Springfield Urban League

Start Early - featuring Family Focus positions (#

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Start Early - featuring Family Focus positions (#1) (#2) (#3) (#4) - [see more details at https://www.ilheadstart.org/careers_at_head_start_chicago.php.   

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Tazewell-Woodford Head Start

Tri-County Opportunities Council/TCOC

Two Rivers Head Start Agency

Wabash Area Development Inc/WADI 

YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Empowerment Opportunity Center / Anna Waters Head Start

Baby TALK Early Head Start

City of Rockford Early/Head Start

Community Action Partnership of Central IL (CAPCIL)

BCMW Community Services, Inc

Brightpoint - Strong Families Thriving Children

Carole Robertson Center for Learning

Catholic Charities, Diocese of Joliet

CDI Head Start: serving Vermillion/Iroquois/Ford

CEFS Economic Opportunity Corporation

Chicago Commons Early Head Start

Designate Agencies of Chicago DFSS (with Chicago DFSS as their Grantee).

Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R)

Childcare Network of Evanston

Christopher House Early Head Start

Community Action Agency of McHenry County

Easter Seals Head Start & Early Head Start

Attached PDF file has all needed details for FEATURED OPENINGS.

Downstate details may be found at https://www.ilheadstart.org/car

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Downstate details may be found at https://www.ilheadstart.org/careers_at_head_start.php

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Chicago area details may be found at this web page - https://www.ilheadstart.org/careers_at_head_start_chicago.php

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