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About the Role
The Housing Advocate works with street homeless individuals, conducting outreach to engage them for services and secure housing solutions. The role involves building relationships, utilizing motivational interviewing, and connecting clients with essential resources. This position requires extensive fieldwork, often in a partner setting, and data management.
Responsibilities
- Engage with all persons on the street who appear homeless
- Create and maintain active registry of chronic homeless clients; non-chronic included in registry
- Conduct vulnerability assessment
- Attend clinical supervision and training
- Develop and maintain recordkeeping files and databases, completion of necessary reports and data entry
- Communicate with team members through progress notes, program databases, reports, staff meetings, and weekly clinical supervision
- Liaison with other service providers on behalf of clients
- Collaborate with Parks Department, NYPD, DSNY, MTA, and other agencies
- Respond to 311 calls
- Participate in Code Blue/Red
- Monitor encampments
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Two years related work experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience
- Knowledgeable about local benefit agencies and familiarity with substance abuse, mental health, and employment issues
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and electronic record keeping
- Valid NY, NJ, CT, or PA driver’s license with a good driving record, as defined by Breaking Ground, is a condition of employment
- Must maintain a good driving record (as defined by the organization) is a condition of employment
Skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Bi-lingual (English/Spanish) preferred
Location
- New York City
- Upstate New York
- Connecticut
Work Type
- Full-time
- 35-hour work week
Experience Level
- Two years related work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience
About the Company
- Breaking Ground operates nearly 4,000 units of housing across New York City, along with housing in upstate New York and Connecticut.
- Supportive housing - affordable housing paired with services designed to help people maintain their homes for the long-term - is widely recognized as a proven and cost-effective solution to chronic homelessness.
- Breaking Ground's programs and services help people experiencing street homelessness - especially those who have been on the streets the longest - to come indoors.
- Through our Street to Home outreach program and transitional housing resources, we help people get, and stay, on the path to a permanent home.
- Breaking Ground’s Street to Home program makes regular contact with more than 2,000 street homeless individuals and connects more than 500 individuals to housing, medical and mental health services, substance abuse counseling, and other essential supports each year.
- The caring, individually tailored attention clients receive at each stage of their journey from street to home ensures that more than 95% of people who Breaking Ground places remain stably housed.
Equal Opportunity
- EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled