Early Intervention Court Liaison

Position: Early Intervention Court Liaison

Classification: Full\-time, Exempt

Reports to: Program Coordinator

Company: DePelchin Children’s Center

Location: Texas City

Position Description:

The Early Intervention Court Liaison (EICL) provides consultative and technical support while serving as a link between the local child protection court and parent and family support services in Galveston County and surrounding areas.

This role includes planning, developing, and carrying out the liaison program, as well as supporting program staff, government agencies, community organizations, and the public. The EICL helps strengthen local prevention efforts by building strong working relationships between child protection courts and family support programs. This position may also guide others and works under general supervision, using some independent judgment.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as liaison to staff, government agencies, community organizations, or the general public to explain and provide technical assistance on program specifics and requirements.
• Develop and nurture relationships with community resources and services that provide support to families, to create and maintain a community system of care for young children and their families.
• Support local child protection court and help develop prevention service capacity in targeted communities through connection to local referral networks to better connect and inform families of services available.
• Identify and maintain an updated list of resources and identify gaps in needed community resources so the broader community can grow to meet these needs over time.
• Identify opportunities to seek input from stakeholders, including parents, on future directions of the program and develop processes to ensure ongoing stakeholder input is received.
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback into planning.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with external stakeholders.
• Assist courts in identifying opportunities for parent navigation, kinship navigations and other peer leadership and support programs.
• Attend and represent DePelchin Children's Center at selected early childhood professional organization meetings to help bring judicial, legal and agency voice to local community collaborations around family support and prevention work and to network with community family support programs.
• Identify opportunities to align community work and services with Family First Prevention and Services Act.
• Conduct readiness and local needs assessments to determine feasibility for implementation of specialty courts, such as infant/toddler or family drug court.
• Comply with all DePelchin Children's Center policies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree. Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of education requirement.
• Experience in child protection courts, public health, or early childhood and family services.
• Experience building and maintaining strong partnerships with stakeholders.
• Experience managing projects from start to finish, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual in English (required) and Spanish.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of early childhood development or related field.
• Knowledge of child protection courts, public health, and family services.
• Strong knowledge of local family and community resources preferred.
• Knowledge of program and policy development and evaluation.
• Skilled in building and maintaining stakeholder relationships.
• Skilled in project management, including planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation).
• Ability to clearly communicate complex information in writing and verbally to diverse audiences.
• Proficiency with computers, including word processing, spreadsheets, and data systems.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple responsibilities.
• Ability to build and maintain effective, trust\-based working relationships.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to work in a virtual environment, with means to travel to court and meet with community providers, when necessary.

Work Conditions:

• Environment: Hybrid – Home\-based office, Virtual (Must be able to travel to court and meet with community providers, when necessary).
• Range of Schedule: Mon – Fri, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
• Travel: Frequent (Must have reliable personal transportation and valid Texas Driver License.

DePelchin is Proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace.

DePelchin is committed to selecting and employing the best and most qualified person available for each job opening without unlawful discrimination of any kind. Additionally, DePelchin is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity), marital or parental status, veteran status, religion, national origin, age, disability, family medical history, genetic information, or political affiliation.

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