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- Attends required meetings and training sessions.
- Provides phone coverage, as necessary.
- Performs various administrative tasks such as maintaining accurate records, recording log notes and data entry.
- Performs other duties as required.
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Counselor - Southampton Street Shelter (Homeless Services Bureau) - Boston, United States - Boston Public Health Commission
Description
Since 1983 the Commission's Homeless Services Bureau has provided emergency shelter, workforce development, and housing services to individuals experiencing a crisis of homelessness with the goal of making homelessness in Boston rare, brief, and one time.
We are one of the largest shelter providers in New England, running two emergency shelters, which operate 24 hours a day 365 days a year, and providing more than 5,000 homeless individuals annually with food, beds, lockers, emergency clothing, health care, case management, and housing services.
We use a housing first framework and principles of trauma informed care, restorative justice, and health equity to people move from homelessness to housing as quickly as possible.
Duties
