It's about time....

.....phew!!! ;) I was offered and accepted the part-time job I have been writing about the last couple of weeks. I was beginning to think they had chosen someone else but was pleasantly surprised when I was offered the job this morning. I won't say the name of agency I'll be working for (we all know that can get you in trouble when it comes to the internet :) but here are the details otherwise:

+Position title: Family Resource Specialist
+Hours: 20 hours a week with flexible hours of 12:30pm-4:30pm
+Job Description: Family Resource Specialists work with school personnel to identify and address social factors that contribute to school failure such as alcohol and drug abuse; illiteracy; mental or physical illness; and very low household income. These factors can create an unpredictable, unsupervised, chaotic, and/or dangerous environment for children. Children from such environments show a variety of symptoms such as being despondent, uninterested, disengaged, aggressive, or otherwise nonfunctional at school often leading to disciplinary problems and absence from the classroom. Family Resource Specialists help connect families to resources in the school and in the community and keep children in the classroom and engaged in the learning process. The objective is to afford children the greatest opportunity to achieve social and academic success, by reducing risk factors and increasing protections such that children can excel at home, school, and in their community. Specifically, program outcomes are based on improved emotional and social success measured by multiple measures such as academic progress, reduction in disciplinary actions, reduction in intensity of disciplinary behaviors, improved attendance, and improved parental participation and engagement. This program helps prevent child abuse by building protective factors around children and families to foster healthy social and emotional child development.
+Start date: August 4th

So, needless to say I feel very relieved and am looking forward to starting this new position. I'll post more later this weekend about our little man!