Outreach Advocate

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with clients in the catchment area.
• Meet clients “where they are at” both geographically and personally.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with other service providers, local businesses, and concerned citizens in at least the catchment area.
• Thorough awareness of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and homeless resources.
• Connect clients with desired programs through direct referrals and indirect referrals.
• Brief substance abuse counseling and all necessary case management activities.
• Completing all required paperwork (e.g., daily logs, intake forms), HMIS data entry, reporting, and PEMS.
• Proper care of CASPAR property (e.g., vehicles, computers, phones).
• Other outreach and prevention program duties as assigned by the Program Director.

Decisions Made on Own

• Safety, health, and other needs assessments at each encounter with clients.
• Client referrals to relevant services.

Physical and Mental Demands

• The employee may regularly be required to sit, stand, use hands, talk, hear, reach with arms, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl or run.
• The employee may regularly be required to move, by pushing, pulling or lifting up to 25 pounds.