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Join The Team

Join The Team

The Parenting Place is an Equal Opportunity Employer seeking a diverse and talented workforce to serve families of all cultures, structures and abilities.

How The Parenting Place is different:

  • Flexible Schedule: Most positions work directly with the families they serve to schedule appointments
  • Work-Life Balance: hourly positions that do not work more than 35 hours (full-time) or 20 hours (part-time) per week; encouraged to leave work at work
  • Continued Education: generous financial support covering professional development and various conferences; our staff are encouraged to grow holistically
  • Set up for Success: weekly team meetings; open-door policy with Supervisor
  • Better Care: working in home and in public places, allows for a more authentic view on behaviors to better assist families with their goals; holistic approach to care; working directly with parents allows for long-term success
  • Mileage reimbursement and paid travel time with proof of adequate insurance.

Full-time benefits include: vacation, paid holidays, health, dental, vision and life insurances, and retirement contribution

Part-time benefits include; vacation, paid holidays and retirement contribution

Be a part of an amazing team, who genuinely cares about being a support for the communities they serve!

Open Positions

Open Positions

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 

The Parenting Place is looking to add 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. 

This 35 hour per week position starts at $20.00 per hour and includes health, dental, vision, and life insurance, a retirement plan, and generous paid time off and holiday time.

Email a resume and cover letter to susanfossen@theparentingplace.net