Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator - CID

Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator - CID

Working at Evergreen Treatment Services makes a big difference in our community! ETS has been working to transform the lives of individuals and their communities through innovative and effective addiction and social services in Western Washington for over 50 years. Learn more about our mission and values. Change begins within. We strive to foster and sustain a diverse and inclusive community within our organization.

Find out how we are working to achieve racial equity, health equity, and community justice. Our Clinic Services and REACH teams bring critical professional expertise and heartfelt compassion to the work they do every day to serve our most vulnerable community members. Check out the compelling stories told by our patients, clients, and staff members that provide more information and a clear picture regarding our organization's essential work.

The REACH Program of Evergreen Treatment Services works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. The REACH mission is to foster community health and safety through outreach, relationship, healing interventions and systems advocacy for people who use drugs. REACH offers a continuum of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily accessible treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions.

All services are based on principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving through stages of change in their lives. REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals' lives. We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren't just surviving, but able to thrive.

The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele. REACH values diversity of lived experience is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor. People who have been impacted by the criminal legal system are encouraged to apply.

This dynamic position plays an important role in helping ETS accomplish our mission!

Job Summary:

As a part of the REACH Outreach Team, the CID Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator will focus on engaging clients living on the streets of the Chinatown
- International District and in nearby encampments with low barrier resource navigation, maintaining client engagement with case management services, and establishing partnerships with other providers and community stakeholders to coordinate care for people living in the CID unhoused or with unmet behavioral health needs.

The Neighborhood Coordinator will proactively outreach all clients living unhoused in the CID to get to know unhoused community needs, barriers, and any possible points of tension between the client and surrounding community. The Coordinator will assess client service needs and engagements to reconnect to existing services or coordinate referrals to appropriate providers. The Coordinator will work with community groups (including the CID BIA and Friends of Little Saigon, local providers and neighborhood safety ambassadors or volunteer groups) interacting with client populations to navigate clients' needs and confidentiality while resolving issues related to unmet behavioral health needs or survival-based behaviors in neighborhood.

Clinical, Proactive Individual & Neighborhood Outreach: (35%) Conduct daily street outreach to engage with individuals who may be hesitant to access traditional services, spending approximately 4-6 hours in the field and remaining time in coordination meetings or completing documentation. Proactive outreach and needs assessment of all individuals living unhoused, unstably housed, or presenting behavioral health needs in neighborhood to assess needs, current resource connections, service engagement barriers, and resource/ system gaps preventing individual and public health outcomes.

Develop community-based harm reduction plans in collaboration with clients, focusing on reducing risks associated with drug use and unmet mental health needs for groups of clients in neighborhood or encampment. Educate clients on safer drug use practices, overdose prevention, and accessing harm reduction resources (e.g., syringe exchange programs, MOUD, co-occurring outpatient programming etc.).

Community Care Coordination, Communication & Advocacy (35%) Manage client…