POSITION: Prevention & Intervention (P&I) Coordinator

REPORTS TO: Director of Housing Services

STATUS: Non-Exempt, Full-time, 40 hours per week

COMPENSATION: $22 per hour

BENEFITS: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Employee Assistance Program; 403(b) Retirement Plan; Paid Holidays, Sick, and Vacation

LOCATION: Sacramento, CA

JOB SUMMARY:

Agency Overview: Prevention and Intervention is a collaborative team made of members from Waking the Village, Lutheran Social Services, Sacramento’s LGBT Center, and Wind - all non-profit agencies that provide housing and supportive services to youth experiencing homelessness.

Mission Statement: P&I promotes stability and honors the dignity of those we serve by providing supportive housing services that lead to self-sufficiency and healing.

Program Overview: SacYAPI works hard as an inter-agency team to support folks ages 12-24 who are experiencing housing instability or homelessness. Through system navigation, landlord/roommate mediation, warm hand-offs to appropriate services, family reunification, and other creative solutions, SacYAPI strives to advocate for and guide youth toward greater housing stability and healing.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Maintain a strength-based perspective.
• Provide diverse services to diverse people.
• Treat others with respect and courtesy, striving for open and honest working relationships.
• Maintain high ethical standards when dealing with others.
• Demonstrate good judgment and common sense.
• BA or BS degree from an accredited college or university, preferably with a major in behavioral science and/or 2-3 years experience in the human services field, OR equivalent experience (lived experience counts).
• Ability to work with adults or youth with low income from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds who have a history of homelessness.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Housing First and Trauma-Informed treatment frameworks.
• Professional experience working with clients who have AOD dependencies, mental health diagnoses, domestic violence histories, issues with abandonment, and abuse.
• Ability to access community-based services and to collaborate with other service providers.
• Skillful writing and analytical skills.
• Strong organizational Skills
• Ability to work independently, make effective decisions, and utilize supervision as needed.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.
• Ability to multi-task and set priorities.
• Have a clean driving record, a licensed and registered car, and proof of insurance.
• As an organization, we fully support COVID-19 vaccinations and are requiring new employees to have either proof of full vaccination, written notice of an upcoming vaccination appointment, or an approved medical or religious exemption. Documentation will be required prior to your first day of work.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide universal system advocacy as well as direct service case management.
• Quickly triage services needed to keep or secure housing.
• Assist youth in navigating the housing, mental health, foster care, and benefits systems as it pertains to housing.
• Assist disconnected youth in becoming document ready for housing services.
• Participate in bi-weekly case conferencing to evaluate youth who are on the coordinated entry list and discuss housing openings and weekly case conferencing with collaborative partners.
• Provide whole-person resources with a warm handoff to other service providers.
• Identify and approve one-time expenditures to ensure that housing is secured or maintained.
• Provide mediation between youth and landlords, youth and families, or roommates.
• Follow-up on housing placement for up to a year to determine the stability of housing placement.
• Enter data and support client progression, and provides updated information about client goals.
• Provide consultation and support to families and chosen families to ensure the safety and comfort of the housing placement.
• Attend the required meetings
• Provide crisis intervention, referrals, and collaborative consultation with any service providers working with current or former clients in aftercare.
• Serve as a role model in guiding clients and facilitating appropriate behavior regarding daily living skills, self-care, personal interaction, social relationships, and constructive time management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Client Engagement

• Complete the initial assessment.
• Ability and willingness to meet youth where they are in the community
• Identify a support network for the youth
• Transport client to appointments necessary to complete documentation readiness
• Identify the ongoing services that will be provided by P&I or by a warm hand-off to another service provider.

Milieu Management

• Keep the work area uncluttered and organized.
• Facilitate a calm workspace and client meeting space.
• Be welcoming and engaging with every client.
• Ensure that your clients know when you are available for drop-in appointments.
• Identify potential crisis situations, and avert the crisis if possible.

Whole Person Case Management

• Assist clients in identifying and building natural supports using a family finding or permanency model.
• Assist clients in accessing resources needed to locate and keep housing.
• Provide ongoing assessment of client needs, and adjust the plan as circumstances change.
• Provide referrals to services to address specific needs such as mental health and AOD treatment services.

Discharge Planning

Once the youth has been connected to and completed intake for a program with more long-term case management, the Prevention and Intervention Coordinator facilitates a warm hand-off and transfers care to the permanent case manager. This includes:

• Coordinating intake.
• Accompanying youth to the intake when at all possible.
• Communicate with the youth and the new case manager about what steps have been taken and what steps still need to be taken. This includes ensuring incomplete support needs are either agreed to be completed by the P&I Coordinator or to be picked up by the new case manager.
• Clearly defining what future supports look like for the youth and how they can re-access P&I if necessary.
• Check back in with the youth within the next 30 days or as defined by the wants and needs of the youth.

Ready to Rent

• Ensure youth receive ready-to-rent information from either the P&I Coordinator or from the Case Manager.
• Review the lease expectations with each client, such as quiet times, pets, and when guests are allowed.
• Discuss how to be a good neighbor.

Paperwork

• Enter each client's services into ETO by the end-of-month deadline.
• Enter each client's admission into HMIS within 24 hours of the entrance.
• Maintain a paper list of clients served and provide weekly summarized updates to the supervisor weekly.

Safety

• Identify and report safety hazards to your supervisor.
• Report any workplace accidents to your supervisor immediately.
• Update your client list as specified by your agency.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION:

The Sacramento LGBT Community Center works to create a region where LGBTQ people thrive. We support the health and wellness of the most marginalized, advocate for equality and justice, and work to build a culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY:

Sacramento LGBT Community Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People of color, women, persons with disabilities, and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex are encouraged to apply. The Center maintains a policy of non-discrimination with respect to employees and applicants for employment. No aspect of employment will be influenced in any matter by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical disability (including HIV or AIDS), medical/mental condition, perceived physical disability or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by statute.

TO APPLY:

Please submit application materials through our career portal at saccenter.org/careers. No phone calls, please. Posting will remain up until the position is filled.