Community engagement specialist

Department/Program: Achieving Reunification Center

The Achieving Reunification Center (ARC), a non-profit entity, has served parent/caregivers with children placed in an out of home placement through Department of Human Services since 2005. The vision of the Achieving Reunification Center (ARC) is that all families with children in out-of-home placement have access to resources and supports to achieve timely family reunification.

The Community Engagement Specialist (CES) is responsible for both engaging the Philadelphia community to increase awareness about ARC services, engage new ARC referrals through those efforts as well as ARC referrals submitted by Community Umbrella Agencies (CUAs) so that they enroll in ARC programming. The CES will partner with CUAs, Philadelphia Family Court as well as participate in community agencies and events throughout Philadelphia to engage the public, educate about ARC services, and obtain new referrals to ARC. CES...