Job Opportunities

About the Agency

The Parents Center is a non-profit agency that has been providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, integrated mental health services to youth and families for over 30 years. We provide counseling/therapy services to our most vulnerable families throughout Santa Cruz County, utilizing a wrap-around model in multiple settings, including families, homes, schools, community and our offices in both north and south county.

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Parent Mentor

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About the Agency

The Parents Center is a non-profit agency that has been providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, integrated mental health services to youth and families for over 45 years. We provide counseling/therapy services to our most vulnerable families throughout Santa Cruz County, utilizing a wrap-around model in multiple settings, including families, homes, schools, community and our offices in both north and south county.

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Job Requirements and Duties

A Parent Mentor should be personally committed to a clean and sober lifestyle for themselves and their children and dedicated to helping parents learn how to navigate treatment and/or attend to their mental health in order to gain the tools necessary to become safe parents. A Parent Mentor must be able to balance professional responsibilities with their personal life, despite the likelihood of overlap between the two.

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A Parent Mentor provides guidance and support to parents in the Dependency Court system, which could include, but is not limited to:

· Attending important meetings with parent and their social workers

· Attending court

· Transporting clients to AA/NA meetings

· Transporting clients to treatment

· Attending house showings and or meetings with parent’s housing navigator

· Attending Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings

· Maintaining files with client progress notes

· Working with parent attorneys to identify potential clients for Family Preservation Court (FPC) and assist them through the application process for FPC

· Sharing their personal experience with the court process, motivating and enhancing the ability of each parent to successfully reunify with their children.

 

 

Education, Experience, and Qualifications:

· Must have:

o Lived experience navigating the child welfare system and successfully reunifying

o A minimum of one-year of continuous recovery and abstinence from substances.

o A working knowledge of the Twelve-Step recovery programs

o Knowledge of how to work with parents with mental health, substance use and trauma

o Ability to read and write and maintain files

o High school diploma/GED

o Valid driver’s license and ability to obtain required insurance

o Personal use of vehicle

· Ideally have:

o Bilingual (Spanish)

o Bachelors Degree

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At the Parents Center, we believe that hiring staff that reflect the populations that we serve is essential, and that historically marginalized communities - including BIPOC humans, LGBTQ humans, women, and humans with lived expertise related to this work - must be centered in the work that we do. As such, we strongly encourage applications

from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

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We Provide

· A supportive, anti-racist, trauma-informed, learning-oriented work environment alongside a highly engaged and compassionate team of colleagues

· An opportunity to do meaningful work in our community

· Signing bonus after 90 days of employment

· Competitive pay, with a pay increase after first 90 days of employment

· Flexible schedules

· Diverse training opportunities

· Benefits including:

o Dental insurance

o Health insurance

o Vision insurance

o Retirement plan

o Paid time off

 

Extra Details

Job Type: part-time or full-time

Starting Pay: $25-$27 per hour, depending on experience

Work Location: Offices in Santa Cruz and Watsonville

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Family Time Supervisor (2 openings, 1 bilingual only)

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Job Requirements and Duties
Under the supervision of the Family Time Team Supervisor, the Family Time Supervisor provides court-ordered supervised family time (visits) for children (ages 0-17) and their families while they are in foster care. Family Time Supervisors are required to facilitate visits with referred parents and their children in
order to monitor, teach, and encourage healthy parent-child relationships and assist children and parents in the work of family reunification and preservation whenever possible. Requires extensive transportation and use of personal vehicle.
 
The Family Time Supervisor is a dynamic position that includes the following core competencies: 

• High level of communication, organizational, computer and writing skills

• Early childhood education knowledgesuch, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. 

• Familiarity with symptoms and behaviors of mental health

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Education, Experience, and Qualifications
Must have:

•  Experience working with children and families

•  Provide safe transportation as needed to various locations throughout the county

• Schedule and manage visits

• Review case histories and presenting problems of referred families

• Work collaboratively with social workers, resource parents, therapists, and any others involved with the family

• Participate in weekly supervision

• Write visitation logs, timely and accurately

• Must be able to lift at least 30 pounds

• Ability to work evenings and weekends, as needed

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Ideally have: 

o Bachelor’s Degree in related field
o Strong computer literacy 
o Ability to speak and write in both Spanish and English
 
At the Parents Center, we believe that hiring staff that reflect the populations that we serve is essential,
and that historically marginalized communities - including BIPOC humans, LGBTQ humans, women, and humans with lived experience related to this work - must be centered in the work that we do. 

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We Provide

• A supportive, anti-racist, trauma-informed, learning-oriented work environment alongside a

• A highly engaged and compassionate team of colleagues

• An opportunity to do meaningful work in our community

• Signing bonus after 90 days of employment

• Competitive pay, with a pay increase after first 90 days of employment

• Flexible schedules

• Diverse training opportunities

• Benefits including: 

• Dental insurance

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Retirement plan 

• Paid time off

 

Extra Details 
Job Type: part- and full-time available 
Starting Pay: $23 / hour, $24 / hour if bilingual, commensurate with experience 
Work Location: Offices in Santa Cruz and Watsonville

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