Staten Island Office
Parent to Parent Regional Coordinator, 20 hours per week
Duties:
- Coordinator is responsible for developing the parent to parent network,
including recruiting and training parents to be support parents and following up with support parents and match requests.
- Coordinators assist families with locating resources and whenever possible, in being connected to community supports and to services, including services funded through NYS Office Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities such as Home and Community Based Waiver Services, Medicaid Service Coordination, Family Support Services and CSS Self Determination, as well as self advocacy and community based programs and supports. Coordinators also assist families in locating resources outside the typical service delivery systems.
- The Regional Coordinator is responsible for community outreach, with the
purposes being to increase an awareness of Parent to Parent and the programs provided and to recruit and grow the network with new parent volunteers.
- Coordinators develop an e-group to help disseminate announcements to families as well as maintain a calendar of events section of the Parent to Parent of NYS website.
Skills required:
- Working knowledge of computers including the ability to do internet research.
- Experience using Microsoft Office applications.
- Must be able to work independently and collaboratively and have good
communication and telephone skills.
- Have a good knowledge of their community
- Likes and enjoys people, builds relationships very well
- Creative problem solver
- Preference will be given to a parent who has experience parenting a child with a developmental disability.
- Ability to do public speaking
Download Position Announcement 
Please submit a letter of interest and resume by 9/1/2008 to:
Janice Fitzgerald
Executive Director
Parent to Parent of NYS
P.O. Box 1296
Tupper Lake, NY 12986
Fax 518-359-2151
Email: p2pnys@centralny.twcbc.com
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