Caregiver/Family Advocacy and Support Services
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Ohel Children's Home and Family Services
NY
Summary
The caregiver provides advocacy, educational resources, and support to youth and families to help them manage disabilities and chronic conditions. They also train families in behavioral methods to improve self-sufficiency and independent access to community services.
Job Description
Caregiver/Family Advocacy and Support Services enhance the youth’s ability, regardless of disability (developmental, physical, and/or behavioral), to function as part of a family unit and enhances the family’s ability to care for the youth in the home and/or community as well as, provides the youth, family and caregivers with techniques and information so that they can better respond to the needs of the participant. These services are intended to assist the youth and family in understanding and addressing the participant’s needs related to their disabilities.
Responsibilities include:
- Interact and engage with family and youth to offer educational, advocacy, and support resources to develop family’s ability to independently access community services and activities
- Provide guidance in the principles of youth’s chronic condition or life-threatening illness
- Train youth and/or the family in methods and behaviors to enable success in the community, self-advocacy and self sufficiency
Requirements:
- Level 1: Requires a high school diploma or GED, with experience working with youth
- Level 2: Requires a Bachelors degree plus two years of related experience, or Masters degree in education or human services field plus one year of applicable experience
Valid NY or NJ Driver’s license preferred. Good English communication skills a must. Flexible part time, after school hours. Locations include Brooklyn, Queens, Far Rockaway and Long Island
Salary: Level 1 $19.00 - $22.00 per hour
Level 2 $25.00 - $28.00 per hour
For more than 50 years, Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services has provided a safe haven for those suffering in our community. Starting as a foster care provider for Jewish families in the New York metropolitan area, today Ohel cares for more than 17,000 individuals from all communities through a broad range of programs including mental health services, housing, elder care, respite for parents with a child with disabilities, outpatient counseling for everyday people with everyday problems, and trauma resources for communities in New York and across the nation.
Founded
1969
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
For more than 50 years, Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services has provided a safe haven for those suffering in our community. Starting as a foster care provider for Jewish families in the New York metropolitan area, today Ohel cares for more than 17,000 individuals from all communities through a broad range of programs including mental health services, housing, elder care, respite for parents with a child with disabilities, outpatient counseling for everyday people with everyday problems, and trauma resources for communities in New York and across the nation.
Founded
1969
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
