Housing Specialist Tucson

Easterseals Blake Foundation started as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Southern Arizona. Since then we have expanded our services to better serve our community members. We are now one of Arizonas top providers of comprehensive behavioral health services child welfare and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We serve more than 40000 individuals and families across 10 counties and support more than 3700 children in Foster Care throughout Southern Arizona. Are you ready to make profound positive differences in peoples lives every day

We offer our fulltime employees the following benefits:

• Medical Dental and Vision
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Life insurance
• Voluntary Shortterm Disability insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Employer paid life insurance longterm disability insurance and Employee Assistance Program

The Housing Specialist is responsible for orienting all eligible participants to the program and providing housing search and supportive services to promote participants selfsufficiency integration into the community and permanency in housing; performing administrative tasks involved in the review and maintenance of a caseload of program participants. The principal duties are performed both in a general office environment and in the field and community where program participants reside.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess housing barriers of individuals and families experiencing homelessness to determine housing and service needs.
• Develop a housing procurement financial and selfsufficiency case management plan with clients. This shall include intake interview to determine clients needs goals and eligibility.
• Provide mediation and advocacy with landlords on the clients behalf to develop a workable plan to obtain and or maintain housing.
• Assist participants in locating and securing housing of their choice.
• Create and maintain consistent communication channels both verbal and written between several parties (i.e. tenant landlord referral source collaborating agencies debtors and creditors).
• Serve as an ongoing liaison between property managers and participants as well as between participants and neighbors.
• Provide information and referral assistance regarding available support from appropriate social service agencies and/or community programs.
• Assist in development of and encourage adherence to a personal budget through proactive housing and budget counseling sessions; provide budget counseling and education to assist clients in establishing payments plans for bills and past debts and to assist clients in obtaining and maintaining their housing.
• Assist participants in development of a strengthbased/solutionfocused individualized goal and action plan that promotes permanent housing and selfsufficiency; develop an effective timely referral network in order to ensure ongoing direction and support as needed.
• Identify participant strengths and barriers to stability and assist participants to reducing barriers and linking to resources and services.
• Provide proactive followup home visits to ensure stability and further progress towards selfsufficiency; this includes support advocacy reducing isolation listening problem solving and identification of resources to assist with reintegration of participants in the community.
• Apply knowledge of residential lease contracts to educate clients of their rights and responsibilities.
• Transport clients as deemed necessary. Transportation requirements should be limited to housing and job searches and occasional visit to relevant social service agencies.
• Collect and report program data including but not limited to HMIS reporting and funders required data

Education

• High school diploma or GED required.

Experience

• 2 years work experience providing direct care in healthcare

Regulatory

• Minimum 21 years of age.
• Clean criminal background check and the ability to obtain and maintain an AZ DPS Level 1 fingerprint clearance card.
• Current valid unrestricted drivers license proof of insurance and a driving record that meets the standards of the agency.
• CPR & First Aid preferred not required.

Easterseals Blake Foundation and Aviva are an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative action employer that promotes a work environment of inclusion and diversity. We are committed to provide employment opportunities to all candidates based on their qualifications free of discrimination based on race color religion national origin sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity) age disability veteran status genetic information mental or physical disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

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