Req #: 238988 Department: PEDIATRICS:INST. ON HUMAN DEV. & DISABILITY (IHDD) Appointing Department Web Address: https://ihdd.org/education/echo-programs/ Posting Date: 09/16/2024 Closing Info: Open Until Filled Salary: $21.63 - $28.90 per hour Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/04/benefits-summary-classified-staff-less-than-half-time-20230701\_a11y.pdf) As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. _The Washington_ **_I_** _nterdisciplinary_ **_N_** _etwork of_ **_C_** _ommunity_ **_L_** _eaders with a focus on_ **_U_** _nderserved and_ **_D_** _isability_ **_E_** _ducation (WA INCLUDE) Collaborative_ https://wainclude.org/ seeks to build workforce capacity to serve individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disability (/DD), autism, and behavioral health needs and their families and caregivers across Washington state. The WA INCLUDE Collaborative (wainclude.org) provides education and training opportunities for community behavioral health practitioners including Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) programs. **The ECHO Model®** ( https://hsc.unm.edu/echo/what-we-do/about-the-echo-model.html ) is an “all teach, all learn” model - ECHO program participants engage in a virtual community with their peers where they share support, guidance, and feedback. Participants present real (anonymized) cases to the specialists—and each other—for discussion and recommendations during an ECHO session. Participants learn from one another and specialists from multiple focus areas. As a result, the collective understanding of how to disseminate and implement best practices across diverse disciplines continuously improves and expands. This continuous loop of knowledge-sharing, learning, mentoring, and peer support makes this model unique and can lead to long-lasting impact beyond webinars or telemedicine care. **Four to five (4-5)** **_Temporary_** **Family Advocates positions will be hired.** _Family Advocate will serve as a hub team specialist in our ECHO programs_ https://wainclude.org/echo/ _alongside other providers, staff, and advocates within WA INCLUDE._ **Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:** Persons with I/DD, ASD, and/or behavioral health needs are from diverse backgrounds, including racial/ethnic, language, gender, geographic region, religion, culture, socioeconomic status, and age. **We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities, including BIPOC and indigenous communities or who are members of other marginalized communities.** We desire to have our ECHO teams be representative of the community behavioral health and healthcare practitioners and the clients and families they serve. **Hours per month:** 4-10 hours per month, up to 12 hours a month **Role and Duties** **Program support (70%)** • Serve as a specialist on virtual Zoom-based (join from any location) ECHO HUB teams for one or more ECHO programs (up to 4) in the role of Family Advocate. • The four ECHO programs are listed at these websites: https://wainclude.org/echo/echo-idd-wraparound/connect-to-echo-idd-wraparound/ and https://wainclude.org/echo/echo-autism/ . • ECHO Programs Hub Team Member (specialist) provides knowledge, lived experience, expertise, insight, and wisdom gained as the parent, family member, or guardian for a loved one who is autistic and/or experiences intellectual impairment. • Depending on budget and availability, hours might expand to include participation in other WA INCLUDE Collaborative efforts. **Documentation (30%)** • Attend and share knowledge, experience, and expertise at ECHO sessions. Each ECHO session is about 2 hours in length. And attend HUB Team planning and admin meetings once or twice per month, for a total of 4-6 hours each month. • Prepare and present brief presentations on topics of expertise at the ECHO session (number, topic areas, and dates TBD). **What you can expect:** • This is a remote Zoom-based position, from the location of your choice. • You will work with an open-minded and inclusive team that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. • This position will report to the WAINCLUDE Manager • Satisfaction from helping prepare, teaching, expanding viewpoints, prepare providers and professionals how to better understand and serve the Autism and IDD population in WA, making a difference, improving care and access. **Minimum Qualifications:** • High school graduation or equivalent AND two years of experience in the program specialty **OR** • Equivalent education or experience. **Desirable Qualifications:** • Lived experience as parent, caregiver, or family member of a person with developmental and/or intellectual disability, including autism and/or behavioral health needs. • Lived experience with Autism in your family (Sibling, Child, Parent, Cousin etc). • History of commitment to equity and social justice. • Bilingual, speak a language other than English. • Experience working with minority populations (underserved, under-resourced.) • Share family lived experiences while honoring and respecting family members’ capacity, competence, and privacy. • Experience, enthusiasm, desire, compassion, knowledge, and kind-hearted openness to other family and autistic/IDD experiences beyond their own lived experiences. • Experience in advocacy for autistic and individuals with IDD. • Experience in public speaking to healthcare and behavioral health providers, disability advocates, community-based professionals, state and federal disability agency staff, and the public. • Experience in leading presentations on topics of expertise and interest. • Openness and awareness of cultural worldview and cultural differences. • Expresses oneself clearly and empathetically in interactions with others and prioritizes an accessible and transparent style in all forms of communication (i.e., verbal and written, one-on-one and group, etc.). • Builds and maintains positive and productive relationships and actively contributes as a team member to reach goals and achieve results. • Solid knowledge of autism and I/DD resources. • Active listening, demonstrating empathy, effective engagement with others. • Approaches the experience with spirit of inquiry and curiosity. • Appreciates and seeks to understand the wide and differing perspectives, opinions, realities, truths, lived experiences, and ever-changing landscape within the autism I/DD communities, which will inevitably include discomfort and dissonance. • There will be opposing viewpoints and vastly different experiences (which is ok and welcomed). Must have ability to remain in difficult conversations with openness to listening to learn, willingness to engage, flexibility, and ownership of actions. • The ability, desire, and commitment to attend and participate consistently, with grace and understanding from your colleagues and participants. • Technical Skills needed for this job are a working knowledge of MS PowerPoint, Word, Outlook (Email), Adobe PDF, and Zoom. **Application Process:** The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter, and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. **_Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed._** University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.