Recovery Housing Navigator & Coordinator

The Recovery Housing Navigator & Coordinator provides individualized, person-centered housing navigation and recovery support to eligible Travis County residents, with a focus on people with opioid use disorder (OUD), including individuals receiving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) and transition-age youth (TAY). The position assesses needs, identifies appropriate recovery housing, coordinates referrals and warm handoffs, assists with placement and related documentation, administers eligible short-term housing assistance, and follows participants after placement to promote housing stability and sustained recovery.

The Navigator also develops and maintains strong working relationships with recovery residences and community partners, keeps accurate and current provider information, identifies system barriers, and helps strengthen a coordinated, MOUD-supportive recovery housing network.

• Receive and respond to self-referrals, walk-ins, and referrals from healthcare and treatment providers, recovery housing providers, criminal justice partners, youth-serving organizations, homeless service providers, community organizations, and other appropriate sources.
• Complete timely, individualized assessments of each participant's housing needs, recovery goals, treatment preferences, strengths, barriers, cultural context, communication needs, and desired supports.
• Explain recovery housing options, admission requirements, costs, program expectations, available supports, and participant rights in clear, understandable language so participants can make informed choices.
• Identify recovery housing options that align with each participant's goals and support needs, including options that affirm and support appropriately prescribed MOUD.
• Coordinate referrals and facilitate warm handoffs to recovery residences, treatment and healthcare services, recovery supports, benefits, and other community resources.
• Help participants obtain identification, income verification, clinical or treatment documentation, medication information, and other materials required for housing applications or admission.
• Coordinate transportation assistance, when appropriate, for housing tours, appointments, warm handoffs, and entry into recovery housing.
• Maintain contact after referral and placement, document outcomes, troubleshoot barriers, and coordinate additional services to support housing retention and recovery stability.
• Provide age-appropriate recovery housing navigation and recovery support to eligible TAY participants with OUD.
• Coordinate with youth-serving organizations, recovery housing providers, treatment providers, educational programs, employers, and other partners to connect TAY participants with housing, supportive services, education and employment resources, life-skills development, and other stability supports.
• Use developmentally responsive engagement practices that promote participant voice, choice, safety, healthy relationships, and increasing independence.
• Establish and maintain a coordinated referral list of recovery residences operating under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) or other formal agreement with Communities for Recovery.
• Maintain current information for each participating residence, including availability, costs, admission requirements, services, policies, populations served, accessibility, and MOUD-supportive options.
• Confirm that participating residences maintain naloxone on site, cooperate with referral coordination and consent-based follow-up, and agree to support continuation of appropriately prescribed MOUD.
• Clearly communicate that participating residences may not deny admission, discharge,…