About Aspiranet
Are you interested in being part of positive changes in child welfare services?  Founded in 1975 with over 40 locations across California, Aspiranet is a trusted neighbor, partner, and care provider that exists to help families thrive!  With personalized care, Aspiranet offers a unique blend of services including foster family support, residential care, adoption services, and services for foster youth transitioning to adulthood, mental health services, intensive home-based care, and community-based family resources.

Aspiranet’s Family and Community Services provide home visiting, case management and center-based services to children and families in their communities and offers assistance that is client-centered, trauma-informed, and reflective of best practice standards in the field.  Our services are designed to strengthen families and communities while preventing child maltreatment.  We celebrate our values of respect, integrity, courage and hope through our work, and most importantly, our people.  When you join our team, you become part of a passionate group determined to impact lives and empower youth and families!

Your Impact
As an Early Child Educator/Teacher at our First 5 Centers in the Family and Community Services program, you will utilize your experience and skills to deliver parent-child curriculum via classroom instruction, workshops, events, and activities for new parents to learn about parenting their young children.  You will also help build their social supports while empowering them to become part of a strong parent community! 

Your Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop family literacy, early learning, and parental education class curriculum and content.
• Prepare for and provide curriculum and activities that are developmentally appropriate for the parent and child.
• Conduct child development screenings.
• Develop and provide pre-k transition programming including parent-child interactive classes that simulate preschool experiences.
• Teach and deliver parent-child classes.
• Coordinate and facilitate events and workshops.
• Develop event agendas and assist with center calendar development.
• Monitor participant attendance, participate in evaluation of services, and support center registration.
• Serve as a member of an integrated team of teachers, outreach and engagement workers and case managers.
• Supports projects, initiatives, and/or specific program functions.
• Complete monthly report on classes delivered.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Your Qualifications

• A minimum of 12 Early Childhood Education units completed.
• Two (2) years of experience in family support in-home or center based services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required in both English and Spanish.
• Demonstrated experience with successfully providing family support services to Hispanic families.
• Meets all state required conditions of employment as set forth by Community Care Licensing for a Licensed Community Care facility; i.e. Fingerprint and Child Abuse Index clearance, TB/Health Physical, valid CDL, and clean driving record.

A Rewarding Opportunity
The greatest benefit of a career at Aspiranet is the difference you make in the lives of the youth and families that we serve! 

Our staff gain inspiration from human connection and understand that success is the product of teamwork.  We celebrate our values of respect, integrity, courage and hope through our work, and most importantly, our people!  If being part of this committed team and our vision for “a world in which all children and youth are loved and cared for and all families have the resources to thrive” stirs your senses, please apply for immediate consideration!   

Aspiranet is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer; all applicants will be given full consideration under state, local, and federal law.