Helping Hands Facilitator (contracted)

Summary/objective

The Helping Hands Community Awareness Project (HHCAP) primary goal is to prevent child maltreatment by increasing protective factors and promoting resilience in high-risk families living in high-risk communities.

Contracted position, hourly, non-exempt, not benefits eligible

Essential Functions:

• Present developmentally appropriate lessons designed to enhance children's ability to make better decisions, access resources, strengthen family bonding, increase the ability to recognize unsafe situations and build resistance skills and responsive safety networks.
• Host, plan, and implement classroom sessions/activities in accordance with the contract.
• Report session breakdown and time spent after each session.
• Facilitate pre/post surveys to the children.
• Facilitate satisfaction surveys to caregivers/teachers to complete during each event.
• Teach children safety rules, promote positive behavior, control impulsivity, self-regulation, etc.
• Attend meetings with PBHS as requested.
• Participate in ongoing training, as appropriate, provided by the project.
• Educate and assist other agency staff in supporting the project’s philosophy.
• Serve as a resource to the centers and participants.
• Participate in yearly training, certifications, and credentials to deliver the curriculum, conducted by HHCAP.
• Establish supportive relationships with center staff and caregivers from the outset.
• Adhere to Delaware's confidentiality and consent forms.
• Work with children to develop a program that is both responsive to what the child needs and wants and serves the long-term prevention goals of the project.
• Meet with the HHCAP Program Administrator for training and ongoing professional development.
• Organize a minimum of two class sessions every two weeks.
• Attend weekly supervision.

Supervisory responsibilities: None

Work environment: Office and community settings as assigned.

Physical demands:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• May be requested to lift up to 15 pounds at times

Travel required: Travel to various sites and community partners.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual

EEO:

Delaware Guidance Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Other responsibilities:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, tasks or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Activities, tasks or responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.