Family Paths, Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Family Paths, Inc.:

TEACHING/TRAINING: Teaches parent education courses for 3 different funding contracts to a community of varied ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities. Facilitates classes, coaches, evaluates participants, compiles reports, and collaborates with team members and Children and Family Services. In-depth knowledge and teaching ability for separate courses and curriculum for Every Child Counts, Probation, and Children and Family Services contracts. • Developed curriculum and facilitated staff trainings and other strategic-planning components to ensure ongoing compliance with government regulations and fulfillment of contractual deliverables. PROGRAM COORDINATION: Diligently manages Family Support Program operations and primary coordinator of Respite Childcare Program; assists in providing short-term child care services. Recruits and supports licensed care providers, including mentoring individuals through licensing process and facilitating trainings for Respite Childcare Program. • Acts as liaison to Oakland Police Department for wellness checks, abuse reports, and suicide threats. • Teaches counseling and multicultural skills as part of a pre-service and in-service training program for all hotline volunteer counselors and interns. • Prepares statistical program-analysis reports and maintains accurate and confidential records of clients and providers. VOLUNTEER SUPERVISION: Recruits and supervises volunteers for organization, specifically focusing on volunteers and interns for busy 24-hour Parent Support/Crisis Hotline, which fields over 6,000 calls each year. Maintains volunteer database, including updating volunteer forms, managing heavy scheduling, and verifying training certifications. • Dedicated to mentoring and teaching new volunteers and interns on best practices, critical thinking, crisis management, and procedures. Uses encouragement, positive language, and other empowerment techniques to lead volunteers to provide high-quality services and resources to the community.

What they like about Family Paths, Inc.:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

post-secondary teacher, cultural responsiveness, counselor, trainer/facilitator, mandated reporting, crisis assessment/triage, curriculum development, communication, supervisor, regulatory compliance

Skills

Teaching/Education, Program Coordination, Training/Facilitation, Counseling, Coaching, Data Analysis, Mandated Reporting, Curriculum Development, Team Leader/Supervisor, Maintaining Confidentiality, Communications (Teaching & Implementing), Contractual Compliance/Record Keeping, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), FaCTS Database, Intake/ Triage, Spanish, French, Finnish languages (Conversational), Crisis Intervention, Outreach/Recruitment, Screening/Interviewing, Cultural Responsiveness

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Family Paths, Inc.: