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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

 

 

The mission of Dixon Family Services is to improve the quality of life for all families and individuals in our diverse community. Our intervention and support services are strengthened by cooperation with the schools, churches, businesses and the community.

 

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

Dixon Family Services is seeking a part-time Bilingual Case Manager.  Join our team in providing basic needs case management services for families and individuals in Dixon.

 

Qualifications:  Fluent in English and Spanish, High School graduate, with some college courses in Human Services or previous experience in a helping profession. Computer skills including data entry also required.  Position is for 15-20 hours per week, Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs 10-12 and 1-4.  Pay range is $14 – $18.  Rate for new hire depends on experience, skills and the agency’s budget. Prorated Sick, Vacation and Holiday pay.   No medical benefits provided.

 

Brief Job Description: Complete intakes and comprehensive assessments with families struggling to meet basic needs.  Supportive activities can include navigation of benefit systems; budgeting counseling; applications for housing, food and utilities assistance; employment development/improvement, parenting education, and other on-going services to assist families in achieving stability.

 

Email cookie@dixonfamilyservices.org to request more information

 

Dixon Family Services offers a supportive environment in which staff members can develop skills and work as part of a team.  Our agency is an excellent early experience in the human services field as we serve a wide variety of clients with multiple needs.

 

How to apply: Please email your cover letter and resume to: cookie@dixonfamilyservices.org.  Drop off or mail to: Dixon Family Services, 155 North Second Street, Dixon, CA 95620.  If you have related documents such as diploma, license, certification or letters of recommendation that you would like to share, please include in your email or drop-off package.

Qualified applicants will be emailed an application and scheduled for an in-person interview.

 

Dixon Family Services seeks to hire and promote individuals without regard to race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, age or physical disability.                                                     4/12/21

 

APRIL IS CHILD ABUSE AWARENESS MONTH

Dixon Family Services has a banner in front of the building with blue pinwheels spinning in the spring wind during the month of April as one way to remind people that April is Child Abuse Awareness Month and that there are things we can all do to reduce and prevent child abuse and neglect.

This past year with the Coronavirus pandemic “Shelter in Place”, school closures, and other restrictions, unfortunately, we fear that there may be additional circumstances in homes that can trigger abusive behaviors.

Losses of jobs, financial stress, children and parents having to stay at home during times they would normally be in school or at work,  being “on edge”/anxious about what comes next,  increased consumption of alcoholic beverages and other substances, are just a few of the conditions we believe can lead to abusive environments.

As a community we have a responsibility to nurture and protect our children and help ensure they become healthy and productive adults.  Child abuse, in its many forms, happens every day and has major impacts on the futures of those victimized.

Studies show that there is a direct link between child abuse and a greater risk later in life of depression, alcoholism, drug abuse, smoking, eating disorders, obesity, sexual promiscuity, certain chronic diseases and suicide.

Dixon Family Services (DFS) is a community-based Family Resource Center.  Our non-profit organization does all it can to help ensure the safety and well-being of Dixon’s children all year long.  With a special focus on low-income families with children, a priority goal is to reduce the incidences of child abuse or neglect by decreasing some of the basic needs worries and stressors parents increasingly face on a daily basis, especially when living on insufficient incomes.

Though our main focus is on households living at or below poverty, we want to be clear that child abuse knows no boundaries and is found in families of all socio-economic backgrounds and cuts across lines of ethnicity, culture, and education.

There are a number of factors that can create increased risk of child abuse including lack of parenting skills, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, mental illness, poverty and substandard housing conditions, domestic violence, and a parent history of child abuse.  These same risk factors can be barriers to abusers’ acknowledgement of the problem and ability to seek programs/services intended to stop the abuse such as parenting classes, counseling or other approaches.

Do not hesitate to report what you think might be abusive behavior to local police or county child protective services.  Let professionals determine if your concerns are worth investigation.

For more information about child abuse, ways to help prevent it, and how to report it, we suggest you visit the Children’s Network website www.childnet.org, or Partners in Prevention website www.partnersinprevention.org , or call Solano Child Welfare Services 1 (800) 544-8696.