- Establish and maintain professional relationships with families and children.
- Conduct home visits with families to deliver health, educational, nutritional and child development/growth information to parents via weekly visits lasting at least 90 minutes.
- Develop each child’s goals and comprehensive individualized plans designed to promote
learning. Ensure families are completing prenatal visits, well-child exams, immunizations,
health screenings, and nutrition assessments for their children to meet program
guidelines,and following up on any concerns.
- Complete developmental screenings and other required assessments with families per program deadlines.
- Observe, document, and analyze child assessment data. At prescribed checkpoints complete report to share with parents.
- Support families to meet their identified goals.
- Assist families in locating resources and scheduling appointments with the appropriate community resources. Provide families with timely information and referrals as needed.
- Provide support for parents in deriving child activities that encourage developmentally appropriate activities for the changing interests/needs of the child, designed to enhance
cognitive social/emotional, language, literacy, and physical abilities; encourage
parental involvement in all classroom activities and events and in program training.
- Provide classroom socializations twice a month for approximately 2.5 hours. Develop and use
lesson plans which reflect the goals, interests, and cultures of the families involved.
- Work in collaboration with lead education agencies and parents to refer children with suspected disabilities and in coordinating and implementing services for children with identified disabilities.