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About the Role

The Part-Time Housing Coordinator supports daily operations and provides peer support for housing participants. This role instills hope, supports wellness, and demonstrates that recovery is possible, utilizing trauma-informed techniques to help individuals with mental health or substance use challenges live independently.

Responsibilities

• Provides screenings to potential program participants identified through the local county’s Single Point of Access (SPOA) process.
• Educates potential program participants on PEOPLe USA, its mission, core values, and Supported Housing program operations.
• Provides information on OMH, MRT, or HUD Supportive Housing guidelines and general housing.
• Assists accepted program participants with budgeting, including rental costs, utilities, program subsidies, personal finances, and other related personnel costs.
• Explores housing rental options that suit participants' financial, environmental, and personal needs.
• Assists participants in completing rental applications.
• Assists participants in understanding all leasing contract components.
• Assists participants in managing the moving process.
• Assists participants in furnishing rentals.
• Helps participants to continuously budget their money sensibly to maintain their housing and other basic needs.
• Regularly verifies participants’ income and budgeted costs to ensure rental subsidies are up-to-date and accurate.
• Maintains regular meaningful contact with participants, with no less than one (1) face-to-face and two (2) additional indirect contacts per month.
• Educates participants on useful health & wellness topics, including Peer/Self-Help resources, Recovery from Mental Health Challenges, Wellness & Whole Health, Community Resources, Trauma & Healing, and Wellness Planning & Prevention.
• Helps participants to identify barriers to their recovery journeys or personal wellness.
• Advocates with participants to overcome identified barriers, ensuring their voices are heard and decisions are respected.
• Builds peer-to-peer connections/relationships based on mutuality, empathy, and hope for recovery/wellness.
• Provides peer support, sharing stories, personal feelings, information, and strategies for living well.
• Coaches clients to identify & accomplish whole health goals related to the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.
• Connects people to the services and supports they need through direct bridging/linking.
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships with other provider agencies and local housing providers.
• Documents all meaningful interactions in electronic records software and maintains hard copies in participants’ files.
• Regularly attends SPOA meetings, HUD Continuum of Care meetings, and other related meetings.
• Consistently supports PEOPLe, USA.’s mission to instill hope, empowerment, and self-determination in people living with mental illness.
• Aligns all behaviors with core values that promote trauma-informed care, customer engagement and satisfaction, mutuality & empathy, and a commitment that everyone can and will recover.
• Documents time in Paycor effectively and does not work over allocated hours without Director approval.

Requirements

• High School degree or equivalency.
• Personal lived experience/s with mental illness or substance abuse.
• Clean & valid driver’s license.
• Must work towards or possess New York State Certified Peer Specialist within 6 months of hire.
• Must work towards or possess Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP).
• All other assigned training must be done in a timely manner.

Skills

• Technical Capacity
• Communication
• Thoroughness
• Customer/Client Focus
• Collaboration/Teamwork Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Computer Skills
• Organization & Time Mgmt.
• Mediation
• Resiliency & Flexibility
• Responsiveness & Calmness
• Ethical Conduct
• Results Driven

Location

• Kingston, NY

Work Type

• Part-Time
• Community settings
• Office environments

Experience Level

• Part-Time

Education Level

• High School degree or equivalency
• Bachelor's degree (Preferred)
• New York State Certified Peer Specialist (Required within 6 months)
• Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) (Required)

Salary/Compensations

• $23.07 per hour

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supplemental insurance options
• Generous paid time off (PTO) and recognized holidays

About the Company

• PEOPLe, USA. Supportive Housing programs (MRT, OMH, HUD) help people with histories of mental health challenges to live independent, self-determined lives in the community.
• Mission: To instill a sense of hope, empowerment, and self-determination in people living with mental illness that fosters recovery and a transition to wellness.
• Core values promote trauma-informed care, customer engagement and satisfaction, mutuality & empathy, and a philosophical commitment that everyone can and will recover.