Parent Partner-Temporary Position

Visalia, CA

📍 Location: Visalia, California
📅 Schedule: Full-Time Temporary| Non-Exempt 
💼 Department: Intensive Home-Based Services
📈 Reports To: Program Supervisor
💰 Pay Range: $22-$22.50 per hour

✨ Make a Meaningful Impact

Aspiranet, one of California’s leading nonprofit organizations supporting children, youth, and families, is seeking a compassionate Parent Partner to join our team in Visalia.

❤️ About Aspiranet

Founded in 1975, Aspiranet is a mission-driven organization dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide a continuum of care across California through six service divisions: Foster and Adoption, Transitional Aged Youth, Residential, Intensive Home-Based Services, Behavioral Health, and Family and Community. Every role at Aspiranet contributes to something greater: building a future where every child is loved, every family supported, and every individual equipped to succeed.

📝️ Position Summary

As a Parent Partner in Visalia, California, you’ll work as part of a team with youth partners, family social workers, field-based clinicians, and program managers to round out the holistic care treatment for youth and families. 

🔍 Key Responsibilities

Client Care

• You’ll be the parent’s advocate who will help families gain the skills and tools needed to be independent, confident parents. 
• Helping with budgeting or establishing house rules
• providing support during court proceedings, IEPs or family meetings. 
• At times when you have resistant parents, you’ll use your relationship, shared life experience, and interpersonal skills to gain their engagement and commitment.

Documentation & Communication

• Communicate effectively with treatment team members, supervisors, and client families.
• Attend required staff meetings and trainings.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

✅ Qualifications

• At least four years of real-life experience as a parent or primary caregiver and have successfully navigated mental health, probation, child welfare, special education or regional center services for your child
• high school diploma or GED
• Meets all state-required employment conditions, including: DOJ fingerprint and Child Abuse Index clearance, TB/Health physical, Valid CA Driver’s License, acceptable driving record, and proof of insurance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency in English (reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension).
• Ability to work independently while seeking guidance when necessary.
• Strong writing and documentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and standard office software.
• Excellent time management, multitasking, and organizational abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain professional boundaries with clients and staff.

💻 Work Environment & Schedule

• Field Based position, requiring travel to meet with clients in their homes or community/school setting
• Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full-time, flexible shifts including evenings.

🏋️Physical Demands

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

 ⚖️ Equal Employment Opportunity

Aspiranet is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of diversity. We believe a diverse workforce within a culture of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) increases creativity, innovation, problem-solving, and teamwork for the youth and families that we serve and the organization as a whole.  Aspiranet strives to provide our employees with a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive of differing world views, cultures, and lived experiences.

📝  How to Apply

Join us in building brighter futures.

Apply today through our career portal:

✨ Click here to apply: www.aspiranet.org/careers

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