Veteran Community Outreach and Reentry Specialist

Employment Type: Full-Time
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt
Program: Veteran Connection and Suicide Prevention Program – SSG Fox SPGP
Reports To: Program Director
Location: Orange, Osceola, and Seminole Counties, Florida
Travel Requirements: Regular local travel throughout the service area
Compensation: $28.00 a/hr

Do you know how to earn trust in the places where Veterans live, gather, and seek support? The Transition House, Inc. is seeking a relationship-builder who can take our Veteran Connection and Suicide Prevention Program beyond office walls and into the communities where timely outreach matters most.

As the Veteran Community Outreach and Reentry Specialist, you will find and engage Veterans who may otherwise be missed, strengthen referral relationships across Orange and Osceola Counties, and connect eligible Veterans with the SSG Fox team. Justice-involved Veterans are an important focus, but this is not solely a reentry role. You will also reach Veterans who are homeless or unstably housed, disconnected from VA care, isolated, unemployed, or facing behavioral health, substance-use, financial, family, or housing stress.

Veterans and candidates with direct experience serving Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you are comfortable meeting people where they are, following up when trust takes time, and turning community relationships into real access to care and support, we would like to meet you.

At The Transition House, we believe strong teams create strong outcomes. Our work is centered on accountability, rehabilitation, and creating opportunities for people working toward stability and a stronger future.

Here, you will have the opportunity to:

• Help launch a new VA-funded initiative with a clear and meaningful mission.
• Spend your time building trust with Veterans and the organizations that serve them.
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to responsive, respectful support.
• Strengthen connections across Veteran services, housing, behavioral health, corrections, reentry, and community systems.
• Grow professionally through specialized suicide-prevention and Veteran-service training.
• Join an organization that values employee wellbeing, collaboration, and mission impact.

• Conduct direct outreach in community settings and follow up with Veterans who may need more than one contact before they are ready to engage.
• Attend Veteran events, community meetings, reentry events, outreach activities, and resource fairs throughout the service area.
• Engage Veterans affected by housing instability, justice involvement, isolation, unemployment, disconnection from VA care, or other significant life stressors.

• Develop relationships with Veteran organizations, shelters, hospitals, behavioral health providers, county agencies, housing providers, jails, correctional and reentry programs, and other community partners.
• Provide presentations and referral education to TTHI teams and community partners so they understand who the program serves and how to connect Veterans with support.

• Conduct initial SSG Fox eligibility screening and, after completing required training and competency validation, administer VA-required suicide-risk and baseline mental-health or wellbeing screening.
• Take immediate action when a Veteran presents with elevated or imminent suicide risk, including same-day warm handoffs to VA suicide-prevention resources, the Veterans Crisis Line or 988, crisis services, or emergency supports.
• Connect eligible Veterans immediately with Case Manager and Veteran Navigators and the rest of the…