Bilingual Family Support Worker

Fostering Talent, Changing Lives

At The New York Foundling, we trust in the power and potential of people, and we deliberately invest in proven practices. From bold beginnings in 1869, our New York-based nonprofit has supported hundreds of thousands of our neighbors on their own paths to stability, strength, and independence.  We help children and families navigate through and beyond foster care. We help families struggling with conflict and poverty grow strong. We help individuals with developmental disabilities live their best lives, and we help ur neighbors access quality health and mental health services—core to building lifelong resilience and wellbeing. Together, our interrelated programs provide a whole-person, whole-family, and whole-life approach that unlocks solutions for a lifetime.

Provide voluntary home visiting services to increase protective factors for families and to strengthen parent-child relationship as well as supporting in enhancing the child's healthy growth and development.

$44,125.00 - $50,140.00 year

Conducting Home Visits for families on caseload to reduce risk factors and increase positive parent-child interaction and bond

Participate in ongoing professional development to support ongoing family and program needs

Complete documentation and data management ensuring all program goals (KPIs, Performance Targets, and Performance Indicators) are achieved

Maintaining knowledge of and connections to community resources to advocate for and connect families to resources to help them manage any stresses or concerns and support in achieving their goals

Assisting with administrative program needs to support participant and program needs

Must hold a high school diploma/GED or equivalent
Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Experience in working with or providing services to children and families

Knowledge of infant and child development

Experience and willingness to work with the culturally diverse populations that are present among the program's target population

Open to reflective practice (i.e. has capacity for introspection, communicates awareness of self in relation to others, recognizes value of supervision)

Ability to identify family strengths and foster self-sufficiency and independence in families

Strong writing and organizational skills

Experience working with, or assisting at-risk children and families in a community setting