Family Supportive Housing Services Coordinator

About the role

Responsibilities

• Engage in rapport building with participants and provide service from a choice perspective as well as participant-centered, harm reduction, and strengths based approaches.
• Manage between 12 and 15 clients as part of the caseload.
• Regularly meet with clients both inside and outside of the office to assess housing needs and provide services, following grant protocol guidelines.
• Provide training and referrals to clients regarding financial empowerment, life skills, tenant education, parent and child resilience, and support towards addiction recovery.
• Afford assistance to clients in the preparation of Individual Service Plans (ISP) to determine their goals and assist with self-advocacy with relation to housing and family services.
• Engage in advocacy and collaboration with agencies on behalf of families.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of risk factors associated with domestic and sexual violence and their relationship to homelessness, as well as knowledge and experience working with issues of poverty and substance use.
• Experience working in home or community settings with families and children, experience with home visiting preferred.
• Experience working with families with complex needs.
• Willingness to self-reflect, learn, and practice new ways of being in relationships.
• Risk and discomfort tolerance.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Long Term Disability/Life Insurance.
• Paid Time Off (accrual of 210 hours per year to start).
• 9 Paid Holidays Annually.
• 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Longevity Recognition Rewards.
• Access to a wide variety of Pathways facilitated trainings including Intentional Peer Support.