Case Manager - Toronto, Canada - YMCA of Greater Toronto
Description
Salary Rate:
$45,500 - Check out the YMCA's total compensation package
Location:
Wagner Green YMCA
Work Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Employment Type:
Full Time Salaried Contract
Number of Vacancies: 1
Anticipated Start Date:
December 1, 2023
Deadline to Apply:
November 17, 2023 by 5 pm
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The Wagner Green YMCA 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.
Clients with a history of homelessness require support, not only to find and secure housing, but after they have moved in as well.
The Case Manager for this program, will 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 all other aspects of housing stability.
Housing Stability supports will be 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:
- Develop relationships with Property Managers and Private Market Landlords to assist in securing units
- 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 decision making. Case/goal planning with clients around life skills development and education 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.
- Provide ongoing assessment, case management, care coordination and monitoring of client's needs; monitors and evaluate clients changing needs and coordinate individualized services.
- Documentation; maintain member case files and ensure quality audit measures are achieved in accordance with the YMCA and funder's standards.
- Respond to and investigate enquiries, complaints and emergency situations involving clients; assesses the situation and presents and implements solutions; listens, mediates, negotiates and provides 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 YMCA protocols and practices as well as other relevant policies and procedures.
- Participate in volunteer supervision, staff meetings and professional development trainings as required.
- Association in a professional manner.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
You bring:
- Postsecondary 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 intensive 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, 2SLGBTQ+ 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
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