Position Description:

• This High School McKinney-Vento Student Success Advocate/Care Coordinator Case Worker will work directly with students, families, counselors, and administrators to support a student’s attendance, academic success, and accumulation of credits throughout his or her high school career.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Promoting regular school attendance through monitoring student attendance and working with families to address chronic absenteeism
• Coordinating access to engaging courses such as career and technical education classes
• Credit check-in meetings at mid-semester and end-of-semester to determine whether or not the student is “on track” for graduation. If not, the Student Success Advocate/Care Coordinator will create an intervention plan and provide support or time to complete coursework in content areas (academic support)
• Partnering with Integral Youth Services, the community-based non-pro?t organization to address emergency and non-emergency needs such as referrals to medical, dental, and vision services; provision of clothing, access to laundry and emergency shelter; obtaining needed records for health, school and post-secondary planning (non-academic supports).
• Meet monthly our district MVH Liaison and IYS to check-in, review and revise it as needed supports for the academic and non-academic needs of MVH students.

Supports for Students Coordination:

• Coordinate for students supports as necessary
• Tutoring Supports
• School Supplies Supports
• Extra-Curricular Fees waived
• Child Nutrition supports (all MV qualified students immediately qualify for free meals)
• Applicable Special Education services
• Student/Family Advocacy
• 21st CCLC supports (program offerings and available course supports)
• Migrant supports (program offerings and available course supports)
• CTE supports (program offerings and available course supports)

Supports for Parents/Guardians Coordination:

• Participation in “check in conferences” scheduled to occur quarterly. These “check in conferences” will include the student, the parent/guardian, and the Student Advocate/Care Coordinator. Participation will be tracked to include the following: Date of Conference, Attendees, Focus of Session, Session Goals/Targets, Action Steps for Completion, and Follow Up Check In Date.
• Coordinate for “informational booths/displays” showcasing the MVH available supports. Examples could include during school activities that are most commonly attended by parents/guardians. These would include and not be limited to open houses, school activity nights, academic conferences, freshmen orientation, sporting events). Participation will be tracked to include the following: Information Booth dates, Purpose of Booth, Participating Staff, and Parent/Guardians count with whom information shared.
• Parent outreach that engages parents in their student’s academic success, high school graduation/completion and provide MVH available supports for both emergency and nonemergency needs and just check in. Participation will be tracked to include the following: Date of Outreach, Form of Contact, Parent/Guardian Contact Information, Type of Service Requested (if any), Follow up Check In (date) as/if necessary.

Requirements:

• High school diploma/equivalent;
• Must be considered highly qualifed by the Oregon Department of Education (Associate’s Degree or pass paraprofessional skills testing prior to employment);
• Experience working with children and families;
• Must have good human relation skills and be able to communicate well with others; Ability to multi-task and be flexible to meet the varying needs of families, students, and sta?.
• Superb organization skills in collecting and organizing data
• Proficient with electronic communication, Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sheets; and be comfortable with student database software as well as general o?ce equipment operation such as phones, fax, copier, etc.
• Must have the ability and willingness to learn a wide variety of tasks;
• The employee is expected to be dressed and groomed in a neat, clean and appropriate professional manner for the assignment and work setting.

Schedule:

• 4 hours per day/186 days per year (to be prorated to reflect actual start date)

Rate of Pay: $16.76 (per KFACE Salary Schedule pay rate is based on 2021-22 school year, still being negotiated for the 22-23 school year)