Community Resource Specialist

 Location: On-Site – Antioch, CA
📅 Schedule: Full-Time | Non-Exempt
💼 Department: Family & Community
📈 Reports to: Program Supervisor/ Director
💰 Pay Range: $28.00– $30.00/hour

The base salary range for this position is for employees hired in the Contra Costa area. The $28.00 to $30.00 pay range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate for candidates hired within the Bay Area region. Candidates hired in other California locations may have different starting rates based on the cost of living and market data variations. Factors that may be used to determine your actual starting rate include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, the market data for your work location, and internal comparisons to other employees in similar roles. 

✨ Make a Meaningful Impact

Aspiranet’s Family and Community Services provide home, visiting, center-based, and school-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.  When you join our multidisciplinary team, you become part of a passionate group determined to impact lives and empower youth.

❤️ About Aspiranet

Aspiranet is a mission-driven social services agency with a proud legacy of supporting California communities since 1975. We are committed to ensuring that every child is loved, every family is supported, and every individual has the tools to succeed. Our six divisions span foster care and adoption, transitional aged youth, residential, intensive home-based services, behavioral health, and family and community. Every role at Aspiranet contributes to something greater, helping to create a future where opportunity, hope, and healing are within everyone’s reach.

📝 Position Summary

Under the direction and supervision of the Center Director, the Community Resource Specialist/Outreach Worker will provide leadership in interfacing with the broader community by facilitating access to community resources for families with children ages 0 to 5.

🔍 Key Responsibilities

• Assess needs of families and children from diverse cultural backgrounds utilizing appropriate interview techniques and a variety of methods and tools.
• Conduct child development screening (training to be provided).
• Assist and facilitate family eligibility for specific programs based on federal, state regulations and policies.
• Connect families with available community resources by providing information, referrals, education, advocacy, enrollment assistance/eligibility and follow up as necessary.
• Expand current programs and initiate parent peer support groups at Center, focusing on empowerment.
• Working with other agencies in assigned area to ensure availability and provision of supportive services for clients (e.g., vocational rehabilitation, medical, mental health, education).
• Develop and maintain up to date community resources and library for parents, community partners and staff use.
• Design and implement workshops, support groups and trainings for parents on community resources and/or common social emotional child development issues.
• In partnership with First 5, First 5 Center and Aspiranet, participate in program design and implementation to include the development of systems to collect appropriate documentation.
• Maintain records, collect data, prepare reports and conduct work utilizing a data system. 
• Participate in First 5 evaluation and other efforts to improve the quality of the overall program service delivery system.

✅ Qualifications

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Services, Sociology, Psychology or Early Childhood education or related field. 
• Experience working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience providing training or technical assistance in family services and/or community partnerships.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to the unique challenges faced by families living in poverty, its effects and the effects of trauma.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of case work, group work or community organizations.
• Knowledge of human behavior and development.
• Knowledge of the basic principles of analyzing the physical, psychological, and social factors contributing to family functioning.
• Knowledge of the scope and activities of public and private health and welfare agencies and public assistance programs.
• Ability to design and implement workshops, support groups and trainings for parents on community resources and/or common social emotional child development issues and participate in program planning and development. 
• Ability to maintain records, prepare reports and correspondence related to the work.
• Ability to maintain favorable public relations.
• Ability to utilize agency resources, technology and library to appropriately answer questions and provide guidance to staff, parents and other service providers.
• Ability to educate and assist parents to respond to the social emotional needs of children.
• Ability to engage families and facilitate opportunities that foster empowerment and self sufficiency.
• Ability to communicate (verbal and written) in Spanish and English effectively and appropriately with others (strongly preferred).
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. 
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Proven ability to maintain professional boundaries and client confidentiality.
• Ability to work with families of varying cultural, social, and economic backgrounds.
• Ability to prioritize work, organize, and manage time effectively.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as needed.  

💻 Work Environment & Schedule

• On-site role in Antioch, CA.
• Full -time, non-exempt position.

🏋️ 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.

This position typically operates in a residential care setting. The noise level is generally moderate and remains within OSHA’s established safety levels.

⚖️ 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 we serve. Aspiranet is committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive workplace that reflects diverse worldviews, cultures, and lived experiences.

📝 How to Apply

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www.aspiranet.org/careers

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