Bridges Homeward
Home Visitor - Healthy Families (Massachusetts)
Bridges Homeward is seeking a Home Visitor for the Healthy Families Massachusetts program. This role is responsible for delivering strengths‑based, skill‑building services to families, including fathers, mothers, babies, and extended family members identified by participants.
Program Purpose & Scope The Home Visitor utilizes a strengths‑based, skill‑building framework of service. Healthy Families Massachusetts includes the whole family in service delivery, engaging fathers, mothers, babies, and extended family members. 'Extended family' is defined by the participant and may include significant support systems such as those individuals the family has identified as their kinship network.
Healthy Families Program Goals
Prevent child abuse and neglect by supporting positive, effective parenting skills
Achieve optimal health, growth, and development in infancy and early childhood
Promote increased educational attainment, job, and life skills
Reduce unintended repeat teen pregnancies
Promote optimal parental health and wellness
Duties and Responsibilities
Provides parenting education and support in‑home and in group settings
Helps reduce violent, impulsive, and risky behaviors among adolescent parents
Promotes safe and healthy homes
Improves family self‑sufficiency while helping the most vulnerable families
Utilizes the Protective Factors Framework to provide in‑home services to support families in increasing resiliencies, resources, knowledge, skills, and support systems
Organizes and manages a caseload of families and children referred to Healthy Families Massachusetts
Collaborates with parents, children, community resources, and HFM staff to develop plans, specify resources and services needed, make referrals, and monitor service provision
Maintains regular contact with collaborating partners
Provides conflict resolution and mediation for families
Monitors safety of children in the home
Maintains complete, detailed, and accurate records
Helps support or present information alone or with other team members at parenting workshops
Required Education & Experience
High school diploma
Minimum of one year of experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents, and families; preference given to those with experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults
Lived parenting experience preferred
Bilingual required; candidates must speak English and at least one of Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole
Ability to establish trusting relationships with program participants
Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families in our catchment area and demonstrated acceptance of individual differences
Knowledge of infant and child development
Willing to engage in building reflective capacity
Infant mental health endorsement preferred
Other Requirements
Valid driver’s license and car
CORI/SORI/fingerprinting required
Salary $41,500 – $43,000 per year
Seniority Level
Entry level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Other
Industries
Individual and Family Services
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Program Purpose & Scope The Home Visitor utilizes a strengths‑based, skill‑building framework of service. Healthy Families Massachusetts includes the whole family in service delivery, engaging fathers, mothers, babies, and extended family members. 'Extended family' is defined by the participant and may include significant support systems such as those individuals the family has identified as their kinship network.
Healthy Families Program Goals
Prevent child abuse and neglect by supporting positive, effective parenting skills
Achieve optimal health, growth, and development in infancy and early childhood
Promote increased educational attainment, job, and life skills
Reduce unintended repeat teen pregnancies
Promote optimal parental health and wellness
Duties and Responsibilities
Provides parenting education and support in‑home and in group settings
Helps reduce violent, impulsive, and risky behaviors among adolescent parents
Promotes safe and healthy homes
Improves family self‑sufficiency while helping the most vulnerable families
Utilizes the Protective Factors Framework to provide in‑home services to support families in increasing resiliencies, resources, knowledge, skills, and support systems
Organizes and manages a caseload of families and children referred to Healthy Families Massachusetts
Collaborates with parents, children, community resources, and HFM staff to develop plans, specify resources and services needed, make referrals, and monitor service provision
Maintains regular contact with collaborating partners
Provides conflict resolution and mediation for families
Monitors safety of children in the home
Maintains complete, detailed, and accurate records
Helps support or present information alone or with other team members at parenting workshops
Required Education & Experience
High school diploma
Minimum of one year of experience providing case management and/or counseling services to children, adolescents, and families; preference given to those with experience working with pregnant or parenting teens or young adults
Lived parenting experience preferred
Bilingual required; candidates must speak English and at least one of Spanish, Portuguese, or Haitian Creole
Ability to establish trusting relationships with program participants
Experience and humility to work with culturally diverse families in our catchment area and demonstrated acceptance of individual differences
Knowledge of infant and child development
Willing to engage in building reflective capacity
Infant mental health endorsement preferred
Other Requirements
Valid driver’s license and car
CORI/SORI/fingerprinting required
Salary $41,500 – $43,000 per year
Seniority Level
Entry level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Other
Industries
Individual and Family Services
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