Follow-up & Transitional Support Worker Housing - Toronto, Canada - YMCA of Greater Toronto

YMCA of Greater Toronto

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Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Salary Rate:
$45,500 - Check out the YMCA's total compensation package

Location:
Wagner Green YMCA Centre

Work Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Employment Type:
Contract Full Time Salaried

Number of Vacancies: 1

Anticipated Start Date:
July 10, 2023

Deadline to Apply:
June 22, 2023

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Wagner Green YMCA Centre is a part of YMCA Employment and Community Programs, which provide a variety of employment, and counselling programs to youth ages 16-24 throughout the GTA.

It provides a variety of supports to homeless and street-involved youth in the Queen Street West area. Services include employment, housing, substance use, harm reduction, mental health and other related supports. The Vanauley St. YMCA is LGBTQ positive space where all sexual orientations and gender diversity are welcome and celebrated. These services and supports are provided directly by the YMCA of Greater Toronto and community partners.

Clients who leave the streets or leave incarceration with a history of homelessness and achieve permanent housing require support after they move in.

The Follow-up Support staff work within a Housing First case management framework, which is client centred and based in harm reduction, to assist with community integration, life skill development, financial stability, socio-recreational interaction, recovery, and housing stability.

Follow-up supports are assessed on an on-going basis based upon a client's specific needs and level of support needed to meet their goals; a case management plan will be developed and monitored.

In this role, you will:

Attend client transfer meetings.
Create a client crisis plans.
Assist clients with community mapping and community integration by facilitating connections to community social and recreational activities through accompaniment.
Actively involve a client in planning, goal setting and decisionmaking. Case/goal planning with clients around life skills development and employment options.
Connect clients to other community and/or ongoing supports such as mental health, and/or physical health, and/or substance use/harm reduction resources and supports.
Assist clients with referrals, accompanying the client to all appointments, and walking with the client in their community to identify and connect with local resources.
Conduct regular home visits focused on specific activities/outcomes that result in the client moving toward independence.
Assertive engagement, which involves actively looking for, and locating the client in the community as required.
Landlord contact and support.
Eviction prevention activities, which includes checking monthly with the landlord to ensure rent was paid, and landlord mediation etc.
Maintain regular case notes to track progress on client goals and highlight next steps, landlord communications, referrals and crisis plans.
Assist clients with rehousing and completing required documentation.
Discharge from services as prescribed by Eva's and the YMCA (or Funder requirements)
Attend a monthly case conference with program partner
Provide ongoing assessment, case management, care coordination and monitoring of client's needs; monitors and evaluates clients changing needs and coordinates individualized services
Documentation; maintains member case files and ensures quality audit measures are achieved in accordance with the YMCA and funder's standards.
Respond to and investigate enquiries, complaints and emergencies involving clients; assess the situation and present and implement solutions; listen, mediate, negotiate and provide support and guidance to resolve issues.
Participate in research activities and program development and delivery.
Liaise with staff from other programs and community agencies to provide program information or advocating for transfers/placements of clients.
Adhere to all Wagner Green YMCA protocols and practices as well as Association and other relevant policies and procedures
Participate in volunteer supervision, staff meetings and professional development trainings as required.
Perform other duties as assigned

You bring:

Post secondary education in social or human services or equivalent experiences
Minimum of two years in a setting that provides service to homeless or street involved youth including case management
Ability to work flexible shifts
Working knowledge of the Residential Tenancies Act, Landlord and Tenant Board processes and other relevant housing legislation
Training certificate in defusing hostility and/or crisis prevention
Knowledge and ability to integrate antioppression, critical disability, LGBTQ2S and transpositivity, trauma, recovery approach in support to mental health and strengthsbased principles into practice
Knowledge of the issues that lead young people to become homeless, and an ability to wor