Young Adult Navigator - Homeless Services

YOUNG ADULT NAVIGATOR

The Youth Homeless Demonstration Project (YHDP) focuses on enhancing the Fairfield County Coordinated Access Network (FC CAN) by providing enhanced outreach and engagement to unsheltered and unstably housed youth. The Young Adult Navigator provides dedicated case management services to individuals and families and continuously engages clients in developing and realizing a plan to end their housing instability through diversion, shelter placement, rapid rehousing, and other interventions. Targeting decentralized, community-based supports to folks at the moment of crisis will allow for fewer entries into homelessness through more exhaustive prevention/diversion efforts, and shorter durations of homelessness by expediting the process of getting folks document ready prior to their possible entry into shelter. This position will remain connected to the Young Adult/ youth for up to 6 months (as appropriate) to assist with consistency and trauma-informed focus for long-term stability.

REQUIREMENTS:

· Conduct outreach and organizational in-reach to identify youth who are experiencing homelessness.

· Engage with youth through social media and other nontraditional ways

· Conduct CAN intake appointments and work with youth to identify and secure safe, stable housing opportunities outside of the homeless system

· Work with households to collect all personal identification and documentation, income verification, homelessness verification, and disability verification (all when applicable and appropriate) and upload them into the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS).

· Comply with all HMIS training requirements including HMIS, maintain organized files and adhere to timely data entry into HMIS, SmartSheet, and/or other data system

· Proactively engage all clients in creative problem solving to identify and secure safe, viable housing opportunities outside of homeless system

· Conduct youth-specific outreach, engagement, and CAN intake appointments with Young Adults and young families

· Assist youth with following through on service linkages made during CAN intake appointment, such as connection to McKinney-Vento liaison, DCF re-entry process (if applicable), etc.

· Ensure Young Adults are successfully linked to all appropriate resources as quickly as possible

· Guide youth through housing response system process

· Assess client safety and assist clients with meeting basic needs (food, clothing, hygiene, etc.)

· If Young Adult still requires an additional housing intervention to obtain permanent housing (enrollment in RRH, PSH, etc.), assisting youth with application processes, obtaining necessary documentation, coordinating with the new case manager to ensure a smooth transition

· Participate in YETI meetings, discussing evolving needs of local youth, systemic barriers, and strategies to address them

· Attend all locally and statewide scheduled meetings, trainings and workshops as appropriate

· Engage consumers in feedback mechanism to ensure crisis response system can adequately address client needs.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35 per week

Benefits:

• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person