Homeless Youth Residential Case Manager

Homeless Youth Residential Case Manager

Full Time;
Exempt

Housing Programs Manager

Commensurate with experience/education

Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth (NPHY) is the most comprehensive service provider for the thousands of young people experiencing homelessness in Southern Nevada, serving hundreds of youth through our core programs and touching the lives of thousands more through outreach each year. NPHY's programs stabilize homeless teens' lives, meeting their immediate needs and providing a safe, supportive environment and a path to self-sufficiency.

Strengthening and complementing our high-quality direct services, NPHY is dedicated to advocating for this population and serves as a leader in systems-level efforts to eliminate homelessness among all Nevada's youth.

NPHY offers a positive, mission-driven work environment: we encourage each staff member to cultivate their unique talents and training and come together as a strong, synergistic team to better serve homeless young people. While working in a challenging yet rewarding field, you will be surrounded by compassionate, energetic, fun, happy, and friendly staff members who are like-minded and love what they do.

In addition to everyday interactions with youth, NPHY offers countless opportunities for youth and staff to experience new and fun things together to help the NPHY family create stronger bonds and model positive relationships and healthy boundaries with the young people we serve. NPHY also offers quarterly training to better equip our staff with up-to-date continuing education, skills, and resources to best serve and respond to a wide array of situations and needs.

NPHY doesn't just accept diversity, we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, clients, programs, and community. NPHY is proud to be an Equal Opportunity workplace and is dedicated to maintaining a welcoming, respectful, and supportive workplace where every employee, volunteer, and client feels valued. We seek to build a team that reflects the communities we serve and the young people whose lives we aim to change for the better.

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Under the supervision of Housing Programs Manager, the Homeless Youth Residential Case Manager is responsible for providing case management services to an assigned caseload of clients enrolled in the Independent Living Program (ILP). Case management will focus on stabilizing the client upon program entry, ensuring their needs are identified and met as appropriate, connecting clients to education and employment resources, advocating for clients, linking clients to mainstream services, and assisting the client with successfully graduating the program and achieving self-sufficiency.

As part of the case management team, the Homeless Youth Residential Case Manager is responsible for the day-to-day independent living stability of assigned youth in the independent living program.

• Manage assigned caseload of youth enrolled in the Independent Living Program (ILP).
• Enforce all agency guidelines and expectations for youth in ILP (such as the Housing Unit Agreement, Visitor Agreement, Property Management Agreement, Monthly Case Plans, etc.).
• Assist the client with identifying both their short-term and long-term needs, goals, and steps needed to be taken in order to achieve self-sufficiency.
• Work collaboratively with clients to achieve their goals and document these in their Monthly Transitional Case Plans and Case Notes.
• Assist clients with appointments and referrals for health examinations (eye, dental, therapy, wellness, etc.).
• Assist the client in accessing…