The Parenting Place seeks a full-time Family Peer Support Specialist to our team.

This position will work with families enrolled in Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) or Children’s Long-Term Support Waiver through La Crosse County. Family Peer Support Specialists work with families to deliver support, guidance, assistance with goal setting, family education and help connecting to resources. Services are delivered through face-to-face and virtual meetings and individual and team meetings. The ability to manage own schedule along with family schedules, take accurate case notes, submit monthly invoices, and coordinate with multiple agency partners is a must. This position is expected to bring expertise based on their own personal experience parenting children or youth with social, emotional and behavioral challenges. Additional credentials or certification in Peer Support or Parent Education are required and training can be provided.

Benefits: This position includes health, dental & vision insurance, as well as life insurance and retirement contribution.

Location: La Crosse County

Education: Bachelor’s

Required: Personal, lived experience is a requirement of Peer Support. Reliable transportation

Please email a resume and cover letter to susanfossen@theparentingplace.net or apply through the Indeed website.

Applications will be considered as they are received.

While we strive for a diverse mix of candidates, all employment decisions are made without regard to race, sex, or other protected characteristics.

The Parenting Place is hiring a part-time Family Navigation Specialist to work with families in La Crosse and Monroe counties who have requested the Children’s Long-Term Support Functional Screen be completed for their child.

This position will practice in a cross-disciplinary, team-driven, and supportive work environment to offer services in homes and through telehealth.

Responsibilities include:

-Accept referrals from both counties for families that have requested a Children’s Long-Term Support Functional Screen be completed for their child.

-Completion of all intake and eligibility activities including the intake, web-based functional screen, functional screen visit and any additional required paperwork and/or referrals to alternative programs.

-Functional screen visits will take place both in home and through telehealth services so ability and willingness to travel is a must.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in a human services related field and experience working with children who have disabilities and/or complex medical needs, their families and support systems or an Associate Degree in a human services related field and five years of relevant experience.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work autonomously.
• Demonstrated computer experience required.

Applications will be considered as they are received.

While we strive for a diverse mix of candidates, all employment decisions are made without regard to race, sex, or other protected characteristics.

The Parenting Place is hiring a part-time (20 hours or less per week) pediatric Physical Therapist to serve La Crosse County Birth to 3 families.

Birth to 3 is delivered through a Primary Coach who works with the support of the entire early intervention team (the team is made up of a PT, OT, SLP, Early Childhood Special Education Teacher, and Infant Mental Health Specialist). Services are provided in the family’s natural environment: typically the child’s home or childcare. We also serve families through telehealth. Therapists use coaching techniques with parents or caregivers to help them engage in strategies that will facilitate the child’s development within the family’s everyday routines.

Applicants must hold current WI PT licensure. 

Please submit cover letter and resume to marilynhuckenpoehler@theparentingplace.net 

While we strive for a diverse mix of candidates, all employment decisions are made without regard to race, sex, or other protected characteristics.