Job Responsibilities:
Practice equity in daily decisions. Apply an equity lens to goals, planning, materials, outreach/enrollment, communications, follow-through and partnerships and seek input from people most affected by decisions.
Build a culture of belonging. Use inclusive meeting norms, invite under-represented perspectives, offer constructive feedback, and address harm respectfully.
Improve practices that cause harm. Flag practices, processes, and/or policies that undermine the dignity, safety, or equitable treatment of children, families, educators; propose and help implement and evaluate improvements.
Identify Allegheny County agencies familiar with the early childhood education system, early intervention behavioral health, and infant/early childhood mental health systems that have the capacity to provide support to early educators and program administrators.
Identify key stakeholders and develop and maintain a Rapid Response Team for Allegheny County.
Serve as a consultant to early learning program administrators and educators in collaboration with the ELRC 5 Quality Coach.
Use observational tools, interviews, and data collection to determine the function of a child’s behavior.
Create Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) in early care and education settings for children who have been referred to the Rapid Response Team.
Coach educators on the implementation of Functional Behavior Assessments.
Respond within 48 hours after a referral is received.
Ensure that the Team works through a Pyramid Model in partnership with the early learning program administrator and educators, family, and child.
Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, early intervention staff, Team, and Quality Coach to assess and develop strategies to support the family and child.
Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, early intervention staff, Team, and Quality Coach to create a plan of action to support the child.
Work collaboratively with the program director, teaching staff, Team, and Quality Coach to support families by connecting them to resources and information throughout the process.
Ensure that there is follow up with the early learning program director, Team, early intervention staff, and Quality Coach.
Collect data from the beginning of the process to the conclusion of the intervention with the early learning program.
