Literacy Ambassador - Per Diem

Summary

Participate in, organize, and/or facilitate home visits, workshops, and events that:

• Help parents understand the importance of talking and reading to their young children.
• Provide information to parents about resources and services that are available to them.
• Help parents connect to agencies or organizations.

Responsibilities

• Do home visits to families in English and/or your home language. This includes finding families who want to be visited, as well as visiting them.
• Outreach to families in your communities through mailings, phone calls, and in-person conversations.
• Attend activities, events and fairs with Agenda for Children staff members.
• Auxiliary and/or lead workshops in English, and also in another language (if you are Bilingual).
• Continue to learn about available community resources.
• Attend all necessary training sessions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Promote literacy (talking and reading)
• Work with parents
• Connect to families with young children
• Strong communication skills required
• High school diploma/GED required

Company Information

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) brings Care to the People - including your neighbors, friends and family. Our local hospitals and care centers serve our vibrant, diverse communities, and play an integral role in improving health. As passionate advocates for the underserved, we actively partner with our communities to take on challenging public health issues, and conduct important research to help reduce barriers to care. We believe that everyone deserves access to high quality, convenient health care.

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, CHA policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.