Family Advocate
Support families in accessing resources, advocating for their needs, and empowering them to make informed decisions.
What is Family Goal?
Food assistance programs such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) or local food banks.
What common community resource?
A data management system used to track children’s educational, health, and family service information in programs like Head Start.
What is Child Plus?
It helps prevent burnout, maintains mental and emotional health, and ensures that family advocates can continue providing effective support to families.
What a self care?
This document is often required to verify a child's eligibility for early childhood programs like Head Start.
What is a birth certificate or proof of age?
Intake interviews, reviewing family history, identifying strengths and challenges, and understanding the specific context and cultural background of the family.
What a Family Needs?
A family advocate directs a family to another service or professional that can better meet their needs.
What a referral?
It allows advocates to track progress, record family interactions, monitor services provided, and store important documentation in one secure place.
What is Family Service tab?
Feeling emotionally drained, disengagement from clients, frequent irritability, and lack of motivation.
What a burnout?
This family income level is typically used as a primary factor for determining eligibility for Head Start services.
What is 100% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines?
Practicing cultural humility, being open to learning about the family’s values and traditions, and adapting communication and service approaches to be culturally sensitive.
What a diverse cultural background?
Legal aid organizations, domestic violence shelters, child custody lawyers, and family law attorneys.
What a legar resources?
When entering data for children, this type of information must be entered into Child Plus to track a child's immunizations, medical history, and health screenings.
What is "Health Information"?
By setting boundaries, seeking support from supervisors or peers, taking breaks, and participating in activities that help replenish their emotional energy
What a compassion fatigue prevention?
This is one common method of outreach used to recruit families from low-income communities.
What is community-based advertising (flyers, local events, etc.)?
A family advocate helps connect families with educational resources, communicates with schools on behalf of the family, and ensures that children have access to appropriate services, such as special education, if needed.
What is ensuring the child's educational needs?
Allow family advocates to connect families with specialized resources, services, and experts that might be outside the advocate’s direct scope of support.
What a Community partnerships?
This is a critical Child Plus report that tracks each child's attendance to ensure programs are in compliance with federal and state guidelines regarding child attendance, including minimum attendance requirements for funding and performance standards.
What is the "Attendance Report"?
Provide emotional support, opportunities for reflection, and guidance, which can help prevent burnout.
What a peer support?
These professionals are key partners in recruitment efforts for ERSEA, as they often serve as liaisons to local families.
Who are family advocates or community outreach coordinators?
Strong communication, active listening, problem-solving, and empathy.
What skills?
By advocating for policy changes, connecting families with multiple resource options, and helping them apply for financial assistance or access sliding-scale services.
In Child Plus, this tool helps document and track services provided to families, such as financial assistance, parenting classes, or mental health support.
What is "Family Services Documentation"?
Helps family advocates manage stress, improve emotional resilience, and stay present during interactions with families, reducing the impact of vicarious trauma.
What a mindfulness?
This outreach technique involves connecting with local institutions, like food banks and health clinics, to reach potential program participants.
What is collaborative partnership outreach?