Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh

Field Placement

The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh focuses on serving African-Americans and other minorities, but no one is ever turned away, helping more than 20,000 individuals in Pittsburgh and the surrounding counties last year alone. As the largest comprehensive social service/civil rights organization in Southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Urban League helps others to help themselves through extra-curricular educational opportunities, health advocacy, housing counseling, parental education and support for early childhood and youth development, hunger prevention services, sustainable wage career preparation, and other programs that lead to improved ability to achieve economic empowerment and self-reliance. Ninety-nine years of service to the African American community in our region has earned the Urban League the community’s trust. The Urban League’s voice has gained a reputation for untarnished credibility which we strive to use strategically in order to reduce structural barriers and improve access to opportunities for those we serve.

Family Growth and Child Development

Summary:

This opportunity is for anyone looking to work with families and children providing assistance to center staff who provide parenting classes in a home visitation setting; parenting classes in groups at the center; family goal setting and developmental assessments. This is an exciting time for Family Supports in Allegheny County as we develop a new Managed Information System to accommodate our work as well as adopt a new goal setting process using FAST, Family Assessment and Screening Tool. As well as our continued work in East Hills, Northview Heights and Duquesne communities with families who have children ages birth to 5. We work with families to help them be the best parent possible by using protective factors – parent resiliency, knowledge of child development.

Concurrently we have applied for a grant to structure a program for the education of families around health literacy issues critical to low income families. This grant includes workshops; helping families create family health histories and a central depository for health related information both hard copy and digitally. We are looking for an intern to assist with this project as a data collection manager and assist with grant execution for the first half of the year.

Basic Responsibilities:

 Assist Director of Family Growth and Child Development with program implementation in East Hills, Duquesne and Northview Heights communities.

 Work with Project Directors and staff to provide services directly to families via home visits and center based activities.

 Collect data for special projects

 Assist with implementation of Health UP program, should funding be available.

 Provide assistance to family development specialists by locating services for referrals for families. Reports To:

Director Family Growth and Child Development

Access to vehicle is helpful for travel to sites but not required.

Scheduling:

Program hours are 9-5 with some evenings at each site and occasional Saturday services. Program can be flexible to accommodate evening hours to assist with center based programs.

Please contact: Denise Hill at [email protected] or by phone at 412-209-5249.