CHAIL is a youth, family, and community focused 501(c)(3) organization with multiple locations and 450 staff, located in Peoria, IL. For over 157 years CHAIL has been helping the kids and families who need it most. Children’s Home Association of Illinois (CHAIL) is the largest social service agency for youth and families in downstate Illinois. The services we provide don’t just impact the individual child, they create positive ripple effects within their immediate family, neighborhood, community, and world by providing an opportunity to thrive.

Children’s Home Association on Illinois is seeking an ambitious and compassionate full-time Good Beginnings-Healthy Families Program Coordinator to provide supervision to a team of Family Support Specialists ensuring that children and families receive quality services, and the program meets expectations for the agency, funders, and the national Healthy Families America standards. Our mission is to help kids and families who need it most. We work with families to help them succeed and break neglect, abuse, and trauma cycles. We do this through health, safety, and educational outreach through home visiting. Good Beginnings helps parents develop successful skills in their families, schools, and workplaces. We work to create and restore healthy parent-child relationships and connect families to community resources as needed. Stronger families start here! This position provides supervisory support for 4 Family Support Specialists (FSS) and 1 Outreach Specialist. Facilitates weekly 1.5-2-hour supervision sessions, ensures that home visiting documentation is completed accurately and submitted in accordance with program policies. Monitors Family Support Specialists caseloads and home visit completion rates. Observe each FSS’s in home visits at least semiannually and provide feedback that encourages professional development. Routinely provide reflective supervision to FSS’s to support their work with challenging families and enhance their abilities. Develops and implements training plans and ensures staff are meeting the Healthy America training requirements. Provides annual evaluations, ensures grant requirements and program outcomes are being meet, conducts team building activities, manages individual grant budget and attends community meetings.

Job Summary:

The ideal individual for this position is a strong leader who has a substantial knowledge of child development and the challenges of working with families who are at-risk. The ability to support a team of home visitors through reflective practice and supervision is essential. This position requires an ability to interact positively with multiple entities in the community including early childhood and child abuse prevention groups. This individual must possess the ability to relate to persons of diverse backgrounds and have an ability to assist staff in understanding ways in which they can achieve outcomes by approaching the work in a culturally sensitive manner. Strong case management and documentation skills, an ability to manage files and related paperwork in a timely and accurate manner, and an ability to manage program resources are critical.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Sciences (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, mental health, and education) required.
• 3-5 years’ experience working in Human or Social Services; 1 year working directly with families with children in-home or in group settings, case management or service coordination experience.
• A solid understanding of and/or experience in supervising and motivating staff, as well as providing support to staff in stressful work environments.
• Experience in early childhood prevention services; home visitation experience preferred.
• Knowledge of parent-child attachment, maternal-infant health and dynamics of child abuse and neglect preferred.
• Experience with providing family services that embrace the concepts of family-centered, strength based, culturally sensitive- service provision

Benefits:

• PTO (paid-time-off) accrual 3 weeks first year (full-time)
• 10 paid holidays
• Sick Leave accrual 12 days per year (full-time)
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401K with company match
• Company paid life insurance, STD and LTD
• Supplemental life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program

CHAIL provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.