Job Description

About the Company

A Woman’s Place is a community-based social change organization committed to the empowerment of women and to ending intimate and domestic violence for all. A Woman’s Place envisions a society where all individuals are safe in their relationships and can flourish.

About the Role

The Rapid Rehousing Advocate is responsible for providing trauma informed counseling, case management, advocacy and supportive services to victims of domestic violence in identifying, obtaining and sustaining affordable housing. Rapid Rehousing is a housing first model where AWP aims to provide housing to survivors first and then work to address and support other needs once safely housed.

Responsibilities

• Provide services to victims of domestic violence in alliance with the Values, Vision, and Mission statements of the organization.
• Work with individuals to create change in their lives, which supports safety, healthy relationships and self-sufficiency.
• Complete intake paperwork with new housing clients.
• Assess client’s level of need and assign appropriate program assistance.
• Provide advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence that emphasizes improved safety and economic self-sufficiency.
• Provide services that improve immediate safety and prevent reoccurrence of relationship violence, including safety planning, lethality risk assessment, and linkages to specialized legal and therapeutic services.
• Provide services that improve economic self-sufficiency of survivors, including financial education, job searches, interview preparation, assistance with resume preparation and job applications, assistance accessing public benefits, and job placement programs.
• Assist clients on creating housing retention plans and work towards economic stability to build towards self-sufficiency at the end of the RRH program.
• Provide tools, resources and education to assist survivors in maintaining housing and prevent re-entry into the homelessness system.
• Coach clients to advocate on their own behalf with creditors and other financial institutions, employers, bill collectors, landlords, public and community-based programs.
• Maintain a comprehensive directory of local resources that are relevant to improving client self-sufficiency.
• Advocate for expedited referral processes to enroll survivors in job training and placement programs.
• Document and maintain records relevant to program services and in compliance with grant requirements.
• Daily data entry in order to maintain accurate statistical databases and ensure grant reporting requirements are met.
• Assist in gathering pantry items for community clients.
• Support clients in locating and obtaining affordable housing including advocacy with local landlords.
• Provide continual case management to work on stable housing and other identified areas of needs and goals. Regularly evaluate progress and adjust goal plans as needed.
• Attend supervision regularly to discuss caseload.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and/or
• An equivalent amount of work/education experience.

Required clearances/licensure

• 3/34 clearance
• Valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License
• Valid vehicle registration and insurance

Physical Demands/Environmental Conditions

• Operation of office equipment
• Occasional travel
• Willingness and ability to work varied hours, including nights and weekends.
• Exposure to cleaning supplies, office chemicals, and insecticides.

Equal Opportunity Statement

A Woman’s Place recognizes that anyone can experience domestic violence regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomics, gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, language, or culture. Services, programs, and resources provided by A Woman’s Place are available to people of any background and identity. A Woman’s Place recognizes that domestic violence occurs in a societal and systemic context. As a community-based social change organization, A Woman’s Place is committed to:

• Fostering societal change as a primary means of ending domestic violence
• Providing trauma-informed, survivor-centered advocacy
• Rejecting attitudes, social norms, and policies that reinforce oppression, powerlessness, and victimization

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