Housing Specialist

Location: New York

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Position Summary

The Housing Specialist will engage all eligible aging-out participants in the program. The Housing Specialist will provide housing search and supportive services to promote participants' self-sufficiency, integration into the community, and permanency in housing. The Housing Specialist will perform administrative tasks involved in the review and maintenance of a caseload of the program’s participants.

• Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Provide housing search and supportive services to promote participants' self-sufficiency, integration into the community, and permanency in housing.
• Administer tasks involved in the review and maintenance of a caseload of the program’s participants.
• Work with youth who are aging out of foster care to submit all forms of housing applications by age 19.
• Assist youth to apply for permanent housing by helping them obtain Section 8 vouchers, apply to the NYC affordable housing lottery, etc.
• Check in on the youth’s application status and follow up with NYCHA and supportive housing as needed.
• Accompany youth to visit supportive housing residences, when needed.
• Help participants obtain furniture and move into an apartment.
• Assess housing barriers of participants and families experiencing homelessness to determine housing and service needs.
• Develop a comprehensive plan by providing independent living and life skills support such as budgeting, obtaining a bank account money management, and vital records.
• Provide mediation and advocacy with property owners on the youth’s behalf to develop a workable plan to obtain and or maintain housing.
• Serve as an ongoing liaison between property managers and participants as well as between participants and neighbors.
• Provide information and referral assistance regarding available support from appropriate social service agencies and/or community programs.
• Assist participants in the development of a strength-based/solution-focused individualized goal and action plan that promotes permanent housing and self-sufficiency; develop an effective, timely referral network to ensure ongoing direction and support as needed.
• Provide proactive follow-up home visits to ensure stability and further progress towards self-sufficiency; this includes support, advocacy, reducing isolation, listening, problem-solving, and identification of resources to assist with the reintegration of participants in the community.
• Collect and report program data into an evolving data management system.
• Collaborate with other service providers inter/intro agency.
• Ability to work a flexible work schedule; within the hours of operation of the Next Generation Center.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

$50,000 to $55,000

Position Summary

The Housing Specialist will engage all eligible aging-out participants in the program. The Housing Specialist will provide housing search and supportive services to promote participants' self-sufficiency, integration into the community, and permanency in housing. The Housing Specialist will perform administrative tasks involved in the review and maintenance of a caseload of the program’s participants.

Essential Duties

• Understand and promote the organization’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Provide housing search and supportive services to promote participants' self-sufficiency, integration into the community, and permanency in housing.
• Administer tasks involved in the review and maintenance of a caseload of the program’s participants.
• Work with youth who are aging out of foster care to submit all forms of housing applications by age 19.
• Assist youth to apply for permanent housing by helping them obtain Section 8 vouchers, apply to the NYC affordable housing lottery, etc.
• Check in on the youth’s application status and follow up with NYCHA and supportive housing as needed.
• Accompan…