YSIC Homeless Prevention Case Manager; PYET

Homeless Prevention Case Manager

The Homeless Prevention Services Department consists of several programs developed to provide multi-disciplinary responses to youth who are currently experiencing or at imminent risk of homelessness. Prevention services are designed to intervene early with young people and their families to reduce the risk of homelessness and strengthen housing stability before a housing crisis occurs. Youth and families will collaboratively develop and regularly convene to identify risks, strengths, and concrete steps to prevent homelessness.

This Homeless Prevention Case Manager can provide support across homeless prevention programs but will focus on the Prevention Youth Engagement (P-YET). P-YET targets youth who are 11-17 years old and who are experiencing various degrees of instability, such as housing status changes and family crisis situations. The three disciplines leveraged within PYET's model are:

• Youth Case Management – Connecting youth to critical services and resources that resolve their immediate housing instability crisis and address social, emotional, and education needs.
• Legal Advocacy – Helping youth help understand their legal options for safety and access emergency shelter, education, and medical care.
• Mental Health Counseling – Providing short-term, mental health counseling and strengths based therapeutic engagement for youth and families.

Together, this team uses a trauma-informed and youth-centered approach to assess individual instability factors and provide the resources, support, and advocacy needed to help young people live their healthiest lives and reach their fullest potential in mind, body, and spirit. This position is at the Social Impact Center Y, the social services branch of YMCA of Greater Seattle (YGS). The mission of the Social Impact Center Y is to accelerate young people's ability to build safe, successful, and happy lives.

Every year, we serve 5,000 children, youth, young adults, and families across King County with programs that aim to strengthen young people's ability to develop to their fullest potential through four strategies: reducing risk factors; navigating systems towards successful life transition; ensuring stability, safety and wellness in times of crisis; and building competencies and social capital. The Social Impact Center Y's programs include housing, behavioral health, foster care licensing, violence prevention, education, and employment.

Many of the young people we serve have had involvement in the foster care, criminal justice system, and/or homelessness systems.

What You Will Get From Working at The Y

• Membership to the YMCA of Greater Seattle for you and your household
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• Retirement with generous employer contributions
• Free access to mental health resources
• Rapidly-accruing paid time off (PTO)
• Discounts on qualifying YMCA of Greater Seattle childcare and day camp programs

Hiring Range: $24.50 – $27.50/hour

Schedule:

This is a full time role with an anticipated schedule of Monday-Friday; 8:30am-5pm with 1-2 weekends a month required

Responsibilities

• Establis trauma-informed, person-centered relationships with young people experiencing various degrees of housing instability and family crisis.
• Connect youth to critical services and resources that resolve their immediate housing instability crisis and address social, emotional, and education needs.
• Resond to crises, conflicts, and emergencies using trauma-informed de-escalation techniques.
• Develops individualized, strengths-based, youth-driven service plans.
• Complete check requests and communication and landlords.
• Must understand contract/grant terms and conditions to ensure program outcome requirements are met and services rendered to young adults appropriately.
• Research best practices in field; creates and maintains specialized resource library.
• Maintains clear, professional, timely participant contact notes, service plans, progress updates, outcomes, and other documentation in designated databases.
• Teaches life skills, job readiness, or other subject matter individually and/or in groups, often experientially.
• Supports participant success in key…