Community Engagement Worker - Toronto, Canada - YWCA Toronto

YWCA Toronto

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Job Position: Community Engagement Worker
Harm Reduction (C)

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Employment Type:Full-Time, Contract

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Work Hours:35 hours per week (includes days, evenings and every 5th weekend; shares on call duties)
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Salary:$55,385 annually (Level 7), plus comprehensive benefits
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Location:150 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 0B1
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Contract Start Date:February 5, 2023
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Contract End Date:December 8, 2023
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Internal Application Deadline:Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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External Application Deadline:Friday, February 3, 2023

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The Community Engagement Worker

Harm Reduction, is responsible for leading the design and implementation of programming that promotes harm reduction principles and approaches that empowers tenants and tenantled initiatives. The goal of the position is to create an inclusive community, encourage participation in the broader community, and develop effective harm reduction strategies to meet the emotional, practical and social support needs of the tenants and the community as a whole. The Community Engagement Worker
Harm Reduction will work within the Community Engagement Program team and alongside the Jean Tweed case management team to ensure that community engagement activities support a positive and dynamic community environment with a focus on health outcomes.

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ABOUT YWCA TORONTO - YWCA ELM CENTRE

YWCA Elm Centre includes 300 units of permanent housing for three different resident groups: 165 affordable rental units, 50 units for Indigenous women, gender diverse people and their families and 85 supportive units for women and gender diverse people living with mental health or concurrent mental health and substance use challenges.

The Elm Community Engagement Workers provides supports and services to the entire residential community, with a focus on community capacity building, housing stabilization and health promotion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Creates programming specifically designed to build community capacity through the use of harm reduction framework that will give individuals and groups of residents the opportunity to develop and use harm reduction strategies in all aspects of their lives (health, relationships, independent life skills, housing, etc.);
Provide harm reduction strategies that will empower individuals as they address issues related to substance use, mental health, health and wellness and housing;
Develops, implements and evaluates workshops, groups and individual supports that incorporate harm reduction strategies with an understanding of residents' mental health, addictions, and woman abuse issues, with attention to the value of peer supports in the Indigenous, youth, and supportive housing subcommunities;
Designs and delivers programming specifically designed to build individual and community capacity through activities that promote the development and use of harm reduction principles in conflict resolution and mediation skills, including peerled processes for addressing issues of concern to the community;
Supports tenants in addressing legal notices related to lease infractions such as arrears, Rent Geared to Income (RGI) documentation and/or behavior/tenancy challenging issues;
Assist in conducting intake interviews, ensures relevant documentation is completed/acquired and supports tenants move in process as required;
Uses Stages of Change with a focus on client centered goals that reduce harm and increase community engagement and cohesiveness;
The use of trauma informed practices to support individuals and community engagement/development.

QUALIFICATIONS:

General knowledge of an academic or technical discipline normally acquired through the completion of an undergraduate degree in a social services or health field (examples: BSW/Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc.);

years' experience working in a diverse, direct service setting with adults and families who experience impacts of poverty, homelessness/ under-housing, violence/trauma, mental health/addictions/ or concurrent disorders, and other sources of marginalization or oppression (Cases for Equivalency will be considered);

Minimum of 3 years' experience demonstrating clinical skills in engagement, assessment, counseling and group programming with an indepth understanding of harm reduction, trauma, mental health and substance use;
Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in providing support to women living with experiences of precarious housing, poverty, violence/trauma, mental health/concurrent addictions issues;
Knowledge and understanding of harm reduction approaches as a holistic frame work that incorporates supportive housing, community development, advocacy and peer support;
Supportive counseling and groupwork approach that is flexible, strengthsbased, deescalates tension, and teaches conflict resolution;
Life Skills certificate and valid food handler certifica