Housing Specialist- Flagstone

**Program Overview:** CAMBA operates six family homeless shelters funded by New York City Department of Homeless Services. Each shelter offers clients a supportive, structured, therapeutic, safe, and drug-free facility. CAMBA’s **Flagstone Family Center** provides comprehensive case management services to 158 families who are in a Tier II transitional residence program for homeless families. **Position Overview:** The person filling this position is expected, under close supervision, to: (1) assist case managers by being a client liaison with outside organizations regarding such ~~~~ matters as education, healthcare, housing, social services, legal issues, etc housing and public benefits; (2) assist clients in attaining their Housing and Entitlements related goals by identifying and locating community resources for clients and by making referrals to appropriate services both within and outside CAMBA; including the following: - Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality. - Practice Universal Precautions/Standard Protocol & Procedures. - Comply with any and all Federal, State, City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information. - Establish and maintain professional relationships with clients’ and client confidentiality in order to engage them in case management services. - Develop curriculum to address shelter residents’ Housing, Independent Living Skills and Entitlement related needs including, permanent housing search process and options. - Develop a series of monthly Housing readiness workshops. - Develop and maintain a Bulletin Board that serves to provide relevant Housing related information - Provide individualized and group counseling on housing and entitlement related topics. - Organize and schedule presentations by local “housing experts” and/or landlords. - Provide support, training and coordination of the peer counselors. - Select appropriate instructional procedures or methods such as individual training, group instruction, self-study, lectures, demonstrations, simulation exercises, role play, and computer-based training. - Establishing linkages with community-based organizations, realtors, brokers and landlords. - Conduct marketing and outreach presentations regarding the program to recruit clients and resources. - Follow-up with clients and with referral organizations regarding client contact and progress with referral organization. - In collaboration with the case manager(s), work with clients to break through barriers to client goals and to assist clients in advocating for themselves and in moving toward self-sufficiency. - Monitor clients' progress toward their goals (i.e., dates achieved) via regularly scheduled telephone contact and/or face-to-face home and office visits, and document via progress notes. - Provide all required information for weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reports. - Create and maintain client files and make copies of all client documents. - Assist case managers to schedule appointments for client with referral organizations. - Assist case managers to escort clients to appointments (apartment viewings, public benefits, educational, medical, social service, etc.). - Assist clients in completing applications for benefits and entitlements, and may process applications on clients' behalf. - May follow-up with clients for a period of time after successful completion of their primary goals to assure client stability. - May input client data and client progress information into automated database. - Tasks may be modified, expanded and/or assigned over time. **Minimum Education/Experience Required:** - Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in a related field. - Two years of relevant experience. - Bi-lingual English and Spanish preferred **Other Requirements:** - As part of the onboarding process, obtain State Central Registry (SCR) clearance, Register of Substantiated Category One Cases of Abuse…