Youth Peer - YDHP

We serve with care. Assisting families and individuals throughout Southern Nevada to overcome barriers and attain self-sufficiency through direct services, training and referral to community resources. Ending homelessness, one youth, one family, one individual at a time.

Tuesday
- Friday 7:00am-5:00pm

Full Time – Hourly

Program Supervisor

This position supports youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in building self-advocacy, increasing independent living skills, achieving self-sufficiency, and maintaining stable housing. The role provides support to the SPARKS:
Navigation and Diversion and Anchors Programs.

Under the direct supervision of the Program Supervisor, this position provides direct care services to youth experiencing homelessness.

• Interacts with youth by using a professional and client-centered approach.
• Engage with youth and young adults as a peer by drawing on shared experiences and modeling resilience and recovery.
• Use intentional, appropriate self-disclosure to build rapport, promote engagement, and support participant empowerment and growth.
• Conduct various assessments in the field and in an office setting to include Coordinated Entry Assessment Tool, Environmental Reviews, Housing Quality Standards etc.
• Advocates for participants using a trauma-informed approach that promotes empowerment, choice, and self-advocacy.
• Teaches life skills necessary to obtain and maintain housing such as tenancy skills, budgeting, leases, utilities set up, etc.
• Connect participants to supportive services, including mental health, physical health, substance use treatment, employment, and education
• Collaborate with case managers to provide coordinated, person-centered support in joint sessions in home, office, and community-based settings.
• Assist the youth in obtaining vital identification documents.
• Provides transportation to appointments when necessary
• Provides crisis intervention as needed
• Participating in staff development activities
• Maintain thorough and accurate progress notes, files, and correspondence while preserving tenant confidentiality; address client issues and concerns effectively; and enter case notes into HMIS in real time each day to reflect client progress and activities.
• Maintain clear boundaries with all participants and providers.
• All other job-related duties as assigned by management for the needs of the business

• Experience and understanding of homeless at-risk youth issues
• Communicate effectively with people from a variety of social, cultural and sensitivity to culturally diverse populations
• Effective written, verbal and listening skills. Independently initiates and responds to correspondence
• Ability to maintain order and exercise appropriate judgment in crisis situations
• Is flexible and can adjust to shifting priorities and organize work schedule and budget time
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with residents, fellow employees, other agencies and the public
• Understand and follow all agency policies and procedures
• General computer knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office software
• Ability to work flexible hours

• Lived experience with homelessness required within the last 5 years, with the ability to apply that experience in a professional, trauma-informed, and person-centered manner.
• High school diploma or GED required.

Work is performed in an indoor/outdoor environment with driving required  be subject to sitting, lifting, bending, squatting, walking, standing, pushing and pulling, simple grasping and climbing.