Street Outreach Worker

At Covenant House Alaska we are in the people business. We provide holistic services to young people who come to us from circumstances beyond their control. Our people provide absolute respect and unconditional love to youth who deserve a chance to be the best version of themselves. When you join our team, you become part of a massive movement to interrupt the path to chronic adult homelessness.

The pay is competitive, the benefits package is best in class and the experience is life changing. We look forward to meeting you.

Position Summary

All Covenant House Alaska program staff work as advocates and allies for youth experiencing homelessness and human trafficking.

The Street Outreach Workerprovides and ensures high quality trauma-informed service delivery to youth experiencing homelessness on the streets or in highly vulnerable situations.

The Street Outreach Worker will relentlessly build relationships with youth, engage them in a variety of community programs including Covenant House Alaska (CHA) residential services, and work through their stages of change in order to drive toward long term positive outcomes. The Street Outreach Worker will coordinate with community efforts to help conduct street outreach and provide support, referral, and other services to at-risk youth.

Essential Functions

• Understand, practice, and promote the vision, mission, and five principles of Covenant House Alaska.
• Provide face to face mobile support and intervention to youth in multiple settings.
• Relentlessly show up and be present in young people’s lives, especially through times of relapse and crisis.
• Help youth navigate community resources pertaining to physical and mental health, education, employment, and others needed to achieve well-being and stability.
• Maintain a positive and professional working relationship with the general public, including placement agencies and families of the youth we serve.
• Maintain a high level of ethical standards.
• Ensure the safety and of youth seen by CHA at all times.
• Keep supervisor fully informed at all times.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

General Responsibilities

• Build and maintain supportive relationships with youth
  • Follow up with youth who are no longer in residential services, conducting welfare checks and providing other assistance as needed.
  • Assess youth to ensure basic needs are met, providing necessary referrals within the community to support their housing, education, employment, and social-emotional well-being needs.
  • Advocate for former residents whose services have been limited due to safety issues.
  • In conjunction with Youth Engagement Specialists, maintain relationships and continue supporting youth who have entered into residential services.
• Conduct and Coordinate Street Outreach
  • Maintain daily outreach contact reports and other documentation as required.
  • Establish, build, and maintain relationships with youth on the streets.
  • In the absence of the Street Outreach Lead, Coordinate Outreach daily activities, including street outreach, community engagement and special events for youth involved in outreach programming.
  • Inform youth on the streets of all the services available at Covenant House Alaska.
  • Provide Transportation and transportation resources to youth
  • Engage and interact with young people residing in camps, shelters, or other locations.
  • Distribute and track gateway services to youth on the streets, including hygiene supplies, food, clothing andwater in order to promote youth health and build relationships.
• Community & Partner Coordination
  • Engage youth who are victims in human trafficking in a sensitive, confidential manner in order to quickly identify resources to keep these youth safe and supported. Coordinate with the law enforcement and service providers to assist trafficked youth.
  • Engage with service recipients through agency approved social media; maintaining contact with youth not in residency, advertising events and opportunities, and monitoring youth posts in order to intervene when safety concerns arise or other supports are necessary.
  • Participate in community meetings including Coordinated Entry in order to identify, assist and coordinate care for youth experiencing…