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About the Role
The Part-Time Housing Coordinator supports daily operations and provides peer support to program participants. This role instills hope, supports wellness, and demonstrates that recovery is possible, utilizing trauma-informed techniques to help individuals with mental health challenges live independent lives.
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's 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 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 that 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.
- 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 and 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Poughkeepsie, NY
Work Type
- Part-Time
- Community settings
- Office environments
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- High School degree or equivalency
- Bachelor's degree (Preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $23.07 per hour
About the Company
- Organization: People USA
- Supports the daily operations at the assigned Location.
- Implements PEOPLe, USA’s Supportive Housing programs (MRT, OMH, HUD), helping people with histories of mental health challenges to live independent, self-determined lives in the community.