Part Time Homeless Outreach Specialist

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Why you should apply:
As a Homeless Outreach Specialist, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive.

Position Overview:

Under the direction of the Housing Director, provides supportive services such as assessment, service planning, service linkage, ongoing monitoring, ongoing clinical support and advocacy for individuals who are homeless and have a mental health and/or co-occurring diagnosis in Union County.

Essential Job Functions:

Supportive Services:

• Conduct assessments (clinical and functional) on individual holistic needs and then tailoring services to meet the unique needs addressing the areas of strengths, needs, resources, motivation, level of functioning, skills (of community living, daily living, self-care, social, etc.), mental status and risk category. Comprehensive assessments also include assessing the areas of mental health, substance abuse, legal, housing, vocational, and community needs.
• Provide intensive community-based engagement and support services for a period of 3-6 months, for 12-20 individuals via outreach in the streets, shelters, and anywhere designated that homeless individuals may congregate to maximize each individuals access to services, ability to successfully perform community living functions and integrate into the community. Encourages reluctant individuals to accept services through interventions with him/her and/or family members/friends concerned with persons welfare.
• Supports individuals with securing immediate needs, including exploring and locating shelter/housing options, entitlements (including assistance in obtaining emergency assistance (general assistance, food stamps, Temporary Rental Assistance, etc.), clothing, medical care/medication, identification and food.
• Coordinates the development of the Individual Recovery Plan for each individual, and IRP reviews and revisions based on the individual's life events and goal attainment. The IRP may include a plan for medication management, in consultation with prescribers, for individuals in need of such a plan.
• Link individuals to all needed community-based services, and accompanies individuals to all initial appointments and provides transportation when necessary.
• Provides supportive counseling, legal advocacy, medication education, mental health education, community living skill assessment and monitoring, and early crisis intervention wherever the person is located
• Provide assessment of the need for crisis intervention, and assistance to providers of psychiatric emergency services in resolving crisis.
• Supports individuals with training in the areas of linkages, community resources, advocacy, housing search, mental health education, daily living skill assessment, and supportive counseling.
• Supports individuals with developing a supportive network in the community, including use of self-help centers, and through the development of a Wellness Recovery Action Plan
• Provides frequent face-to-face contact, monitoring and on-going support in order to engage and provide service monitoring for each individual to include medical, mental health, social services, and housing. Identify service gaps and advocate on behalf of the person to remove barriers to needed services.
• Provide supportive counseling, education and…