Position Overview
Per Diem Family Peer Advocate
The Opportunity
The Family Peer Advocate will incorporate personal experience parenting a child with special needs to support parents and strengthen their ability to keep their child at home and within their community.
Responsibilities
+ Meet with families according to their scheduling needs
+ Increase awareness of and enhance family strengths.
+ Advocate for services and systems that are fair, responsive, and family driven.
+ Assist families to rediscover and reconnect to natural community supports.
+ Promote effective parent-professional system partnerships.
+ Address barriers that may prevent full service participation.
+ Empower families to make informed decisions and advocate on behalf of and in collaboration to promote shared decision making.
+ Prepare and accompany families to meetings to ensure their voice is included in the pl...