Crisis Advocate
Crisis Advocate
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15-03-2025
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15-03-2025
Job Description
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
YWCA SKS is the regions largest nonprofit organization with a 120 year legacy focused on the needs of women with programs serving 7000 people each year. When you work with YWCA you make a difference.
Were women and BIPOCled familycentered and supportive of employees. As a fulltime YWCA employee 30 hours) youll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance generous vacation holiday sick leave plans and an outstanding retirement plan.Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work apply today!
What Youll Do
Angelines is a Day Center for homeless women serving 75 women daily based on a harm reduction housing first model. The goal of the Day Center is to build trusting relationships to move women out of homelessness. The Crisis Advocate will provide supportive services that help participants identify strengths assess their needs and develop action plans to encourage stabilization.
This position has a social justice component that requires critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values. As an equal opportunity employer we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Hourly pay rate: $25.50
Responsibilities
- Provides a welcoming safe environment by building trust and professional rapport with clients
- Staffs the front desk to welcome women into the space monitor cameras and respond to callers and visitors
- Offers support and encouragement to clients transitioning out of homelessness
- Assists in navigating the social service system obtaining personal identification apply for public assistance benefits enrolling in Medicaid Benefits and connecting clients to Employment Specialists at WorkSource
- Assists with housing applications advocates by connecting with landlords and assists in housing search
- Provides crisis intervention and deescalation as needed as well as models positive behavior
- Coordinates group activities and community meetings with the clients
- Reads relevant documents to keep current with internal events policies and procedures (logs newsflashes and previous nights records)
- Monitors outside activity ensures sidewalks are safe and clear.
- Participates in staff meetings and trainings as directed and collaborate with Housing Support Specialist and Rapid Rehousing Case Manager
- Encourages a supportive community environment by coordinating activities and workshops to meet the needs of clients
- Actively engages in agencywide Race & Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) and strives for racially equitable outcomes; takes responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and welcoming community by making room for people of color trans and gendernonconforming folks and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions
- Incorporates the YWCAs Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism sexism classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in institutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least two years of direct social service and experience working in a shelter setting or with homeless population strongly desired
- Ability to work effectively and empathically with clients who have mental health and chemical related issues
- Must be able to respond in an emergency situation ensuring correct emergency and safety procedures are followed
- Ability to engage with possess a positive attitude around provide an empathy clientcentered approach build professional rapport with and helping relationships with our client group
- Commitment to diversity including sensitivity to the needs of clients staff and volunteers from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds
- Strong organizational and record keeping skills maintain accurate and complete records
- Obtain CPR/First Aid certification 30 days after hire
- Ability and willingness to work independently be proactive solve problems and take initiative as well as work in and add value to a team environment pitching in as needed to get the job done and to make sound judgments without onsite supervision
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Basic level of computer skills critical including use of database word processing spreadsheet software (Microsoft Office Suite including Word Outlook and Excel)
- Experience working with communities of color and people from different cultures than your own.
Physical Demands
- All positions at YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish are exposed to clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms including but not limited to: domestic violence sexual violence homelessness unemployment financial hardship etc. As a result staffare at risk of secondary trauma.Employees are encouraged to seek external support and maintain selfcare when working indirectly or directly with clients
- Continuously uses speech and hearing abilities in exchanging information with clients agency staff employers representatives of community organizations and other individuals in the community
- Frequently sits for extended periods while performing desktop activities
- Continuously stands and walks in performing duties in Center
- Frequently uses hands and wrists fingering handling grasping and reaching in using telephones computers kitchen equipment donations and supplies
- Occasionally pushes and pulls up to ten pounds
- Frequently lifts and carries supplies weighing up to 50 pounds
- *Continuously Over 80 of the time * Frequently 2080 * Occasionally Under 20
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YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!
At YWCA we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. This refers to the insights knowledge and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.
Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants develop culturally responsive programs and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.
Mental Health Considerations
All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms including but not limited to racial trauma domestic violence sexual violence homelessness unemployment and financial hardship. As a result employees are at risk of secondary trauma.We encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain selfcare routines.
Equal Opportunity Employment
YWCA Seattle King Snohomishis an Equal Opportunity Employer.To read more about this view theEEO is the LawPoster and thisEEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
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