Housing Stability and Outreach Worker
Housing Stability and Outreach Worker
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York County Community Action Corp.
YCCACs mission is to ensure that all people in York County thrive. We work with our partners to meet urgent needs create opportunities to succeed promote well-being and advocate for just policies and practices.
Housing Stability and Outreach Worker
Starting hourly rate is $21.00 or commensurate with experience
The Housing Stability and Outreach Worker works closely with families experiencing housing instability to offer support resources and guidance to assist them in securing and/or sustaining long-term housing arrangements. This position plays a vital role in connecting households with community supports and working with families to identify resources that will help supplement income and provide basic needs. Other key responsibilities include advocating for and helping clients as they navigate various housing-related services and systems conducting assessments of clients needs identifying factors contributing to housing instability and collecting data and documenting outcomes.
Your Role:
- Support families with a Whole Family approach creating Stability Plans with households and connecting all members of the family to community-based services.
- Anticipate respond to and provide support for situations that could jeopardize housing stability including financial or other challenges.
- Work with the Whole Family Coach to support long-term goals of families.
- Maintain knowledge of fair housing tenant education and rights and the Rent Smart curriculum.
- Maintain and contribute to a teamwork approach and coordinate services with other programs department and agency staff as well as community partners including school systems.
Qualifications:
- Associates degree and at least two years experience in a relevant field required; Bachelors Degree preferred.
- Knowledge of housing resources and social services supports.
- Must have reliable transportation.
- Familiarity with local housing programs tenant rights eviction prevention and affordable housing options.
- Understanding of trauma-informed care harm reduction and motivational interviewing.
- Knowledge of employment and education services healthcare legal aid and financial assistance programs.
- Strong verbal and written communication for interacting with clients landlords and service providers.
- General computer skills including knowledge of major word processing and spreadsheet programs and ability to use email and the internet.
- Ability to establish respectful supportive relationships with clients from diverse backgrounds.
- Must not have an active record on the System for Award Management (SAM) website.
Benefits:
Health dental vision and basic life insurance; HRA; Income protection; FSA; 403(b); PTO; Personal Day; Paid holidays; Employee Assistance Program
To be considered please include a cover letter with your resume. Completed application packets may be reviewed upon receipt.
Apply now in our Career Center it only takes a few minutes! email questions to:
EOE YCCAC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Employment Type
Full-Time
