Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Organization: Sanctuary of Hope (SOH) is a nonprofit that provides education, housing, and basic needs stabilization services to Transitional Age Youth (TAY), ages 16-25, who are child welfare or justice involved, housing or income insecure, and at-promise in South Los Angeles and the South Bay. SOH helps young people build self-reliance by helping them overcome poverty, trauma, low educational achievement, unemployment, and lack of well-being.

Summary: The Outreach Navigator builds and fosters healthy relationships and assists with helping them secure housing. S/He provides life coaching and case management services to address multiple complex needs and reduce barriers, including referrals to SOH programs and/or other community resources.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•Conducts outreach and develops relationships with educational institutions, community-based organizations, etc. who may encounter young people in a crisis and in need of safety net services.

• Serves as representative of Sanctuary of Hope on coalitions, committees, coordinating councils, etc. • Provides education and resources about resolving a crisis and assists with making connections and/or warm hand off.

• Performs life coaching and support services applying strengths-based, Positive Youth Development, and youth-centered approaches.

• Develops a service plan to establish goals and action steps toward stabilization, independent living, and self-sufficiency in conjunction with the youth.

• Help youth to secure and attain documentation for housing and other ancillary services as needed.

• Help youth develop permanent connections in their lives to strengthen their support network.

• Assist youth in identifying and accessing services necessary to reach long-term housing goals.

• Utilize personal vehicle, in good working order, to transport youth to appointments when necessary. • Meet with youth every bi-weekly (more often when needed and less as youth matures in their goals), to monitor progress and /or barriers toward achieving their life aspiration goals.

• Provide crisis intervention as needed.

• Work with SOH team members and community partners, and with input from youth, develop and implement engaging activities and outings.

• Help youth identify and find housing options including assisting with completing housing and credit check applications. 

• Perform recordkeeping and reporting of program activities on electronic reporting systems (Social Solutions, HMIS, etc.) for outcomes and evaluation; and complete progress notes and program-related reporting as required.

• Report issues and problems to management.

• Attend monthly staff meetings.

• Perform other duties as may be assigned by Site Director.

Education: BA in human services field

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in working with at-promise youth to reach their housing, employment, or education goals

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications

• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following areas: mental health, chemical dependency, emotional/behavioral special education, at-promise youth issues

• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to work effectively with youth with a variety of identities, cultures, and backgrounds including ethnic/racial minorities and LGBTQ youth

• Knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care and Practices a plus

• Knowledge of Harm Reduction and Practices a plus

• Ability to work collaboratively, but independently

• Ability to pass a criminal and child abuse index background check

• Ability to pass drug screening

• Reliable transportation and clean DMV record Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Valid California Driver’s License and proof of auto insurance

• Adult CPR & Basic First Aid

• TB Test Clearance Position is grant funded; in addition to other specified conditions of employment, it is understood that no guarantee of continued employment, beyond the availability of current funds, is expressed or implied by Sanctuary of Hope. Sanctuary of Hope provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religious belief, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status or other protected classification.

To apply send cover letter and resume to recruitment@thesoh.org

Company Description

SOH eliminates intergenerational poverty by promoting the value of higher education and housing stabilization. We serve vulnerable Transition Age Youth (TAY), ages 16-25, who have diverse histories of foster care, probation, homelessness, and being at-promise. We provide life coaching, mentoring, independent living, college access and retention, emergency services, and financial assistance with the sole purpose of helping our youth and young adults to become self-sufficient.

SOH was established 2010 by a group of South Los Angeles professionals who were frustrated by the lack and unmet need of youth homelessness in the south area of Los Angeles, California. With very few or no alternatives for emergency and transitional housing and education services to intervene in their time of crisis, many of these youth were succumbing to street life – homelessness, gangs, unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, and sexual exploitation.

Since our inception, we have helped over 4,000 youth and young adults with housing, education, basic needs, and leadership development services.

Company Description

SOH eliminates intergenerational poverty by promoting the value of higher education and housing stabilization. We serve vulnerable Transition Age Youth (TAY), ages 16-25, who have diverse histories of foster care, probation, homelessness, and being at-promise. We provide life coaching, mentoring, independent living, college access and retention, emergency services, and financial assistance with the sole purpose of helping our youth and young adults to become self-sufficient.\r\n\r\nSOH was established 2010 by a group of South Los Angeles professionals who were frustrated by the lack and unmet need of youth homelessness in the south area of Los Angeles, California. With very few or no alternatives for emergency and transitional housing and education services to intervene in their time of crisis, many of these youth were succumbing to street life – homelessness, gangs, unplanned pregnancies, substance abuse, and sexual exploitation.\r\n\r\nSince our inception, we have helped over 4,000 youth and young adults with housing, education, basic needs, and leadership development services.

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Permanent employment, Trial period, Gangs,

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