Emerging Adults Respite Worker

Urban Triage, Inc. is on a mission to transform culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future. At the same time, we engage systems in implementing systematic, sustainable, equitable, and clinically sound approaches to health behavior and prevention. We are poised to do this through education, community support services, and advocacy that systematically reduces and eventually works to eliminate barriers such as inadequate education, lack of access to resources, and class and health disparities.

Our goal is to promote positive health outcomes and reduce significant health disparities at the community level. We do this by meeting basic needs and then engaging communities through educational opportunities and effective advocacy at multiple levels. We stand in the gap for those most in need through advocacy, transformative education, and critical coordinated services between partner organizations, city officials, and community resources.

Most critically, we do this with the community's trust and track record to carry out the work.

The Emerging Adults Respite Worker supports the Emerging Adults Resident Mentor position, which is a live‑in role that supports vulnerable youth aged 18‑21 who are transitioning out of foster care or residential care settings or are experiencing homelessness and housing insecurities. The aim of the Respite Worker is to provide a safe, stable, caring, trauma‑informed, and supportive living environment in which youth can develop and practice independent living skills in a shared and supported environment when the Resident Mentor is gone.

Additionally, the program supports youth in their transition to an independent and permanent living arrangement to garner the resources and practical skills needed to secure and keep permanent housing. The Respite Worker position is also a live‑in role and serves as a back‑up to the Resident Mentor to create a safe, stable, caring, and supportive living environment for our youth tenants at the Roth Street House.

The Respite Worker acts as a positive role model for these youth, leading by experience and example and showing them how to take responsibility for all elements of independent living such as cooking, budgeting, household maintenance, and health routines, and more broadly in their personal conduct within the community.

• Be committed to the mission of Urban Triage.
• Be passionate, trustworthy, and empathetic when working with staff and program participants.
• Have the ability to build relationships with different types of people, including program participants, organization members, and healthcare providers.
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills and can speak concisely to youth residents and Care Team members.
• Be flexible and able to adapt to different situations.
• Maintain all information private and confidential.
• Possess high‑quality organizational skills.
• Build relationships and coalitions within the community.
• Have excellent verbal, written, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills.
• Possess a valid state‑issued Driver's License.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background check.
• Have a strong understanding of cultural competency with the target population.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) strongly encouraged.
• This is a live‑in, overnight position.
• Have basic housekeeping skills.

• Develop appropriate relationships with the youth residents of the Roth Street House.
• Be a positive role model in the home, leading by example in showing others how to take responsibility for household chores and routines and how to manage their day‑to‑day living needs.
• Be respectful and considerate of the youth residing in the home.
• Participate in discussions, house meetings, and training sessions.
• Participate in a minimum weekly supervision with a member of the Operations team.
• Be a liaison with Operations staff on a regular basis on issues affecting the youth residents.
• Always act in the best interests of the resident youth.
• Protect the confidentiality of the youth residents.
• Ensure that the policies and procedures of Urban Triage are adhered to.
• Resolve minor in‑house disputes with residents.
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