University of Maine System
Waldoboro, ME, USA
We are hiring! UMaine Cooperative Extension is looking for individuals interested in joining our team. Statement of the Job: Fifty Percent of this position is parent education, to build protective factors that serve as buffers to reduce risk to young children, prenatal to age five, and families. These protective factors include parental resilience, knowledge of child development and parenting skills, social connections, and social emotional competence of children. Through Maine Families and Families First, this Parent Education Professional delivers the Parent as Teachers evidence-based model which is based on respected research findings with numerous studies demonstrating the following positive outcomes:increased parent knowledge of development, early detection of developmental delays, increased school readiness and prevention of child abuse and neglect as a basis. This model is designed to be delivered in the homes of parents, through Zoom or a mutually agreed upon...


