Case Manager - Los Angeles, United States - Downtown Women's Center

Downtown Women's Center
Downtown Women's Center
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Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

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Summary


The Downtown Women's Center (DWC) seeks a full-time Case Manager - Housing Justice with a proven history of high-quality intensive case management services provision, to provide culturally responsive services through the Housing Justice Program.

The Housing Justice program is focused on providing culturally responsive services to unhoused women, living on Skid Row, who have experienced long-term homelessness and have been historically underserved by traditional housing programs.

This innovative program is dedicated to implementing the recommendations of the Ad-Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness and the Ad

  • Hoc Committee on Women Experiencing Homelessness and is designed to house the most vulnerable women of Skid Row quickly and permanently. Housing Justice is a collaboration between Downtown Women's Center, the Mayor's Office, City Council, and other homeless service sector partners. This senior level direct service role is responsible for providing intensive case management services, housing navigation, and conducting outreach to women in the Skid Row area. The Case Manager will be responsible for engaging women in services, building a caseload, establishing housing linkages and placement, and provide individualized case management using Housing First and Rapid Re-Housing Models. This position will report directly to the Housing Justice Program Supervisor.

Essential Functions

  • Provide culturally responsive fieldbased case management services to the most vulnerable women living in the Skid Row area to secure housing, including landlord engagement, identification of housing locations in the community, conducting biopsychosocial assessments, creating individual service plans, including goals to ensure housing stability, and ensuring women are linked to the appropriate services.
  • Implement recommendations from the Ad-Hoc Committees on Black People Experiencing Homelessness, and Ad-Hoc Committee on Women Experiencing Homelessness, in providing services ranging from outreach, housing navigation, housing retention and connection with community resources.
  • Collaborate with community service providers to identify appropriate clients through educational presentations and street outreach, as needed.
  • Arrange transportation or provide transportation in a personal vehicle, as needed, to ensure that clients can attend appointments.
  • Research and provide necessary referrals for linkage with health care, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, food, employment, job training, public benefits and other services as indicated by treatment planning.
  • Assist newly housed clients in familiarizing and connecting with community resources including but not limited to, local grocery stores, entertainment, transportation, health care and social supports and services.
  • Address client crisis, as needed.
  • Work to effectively meet clients' needs and resolve individual barriers through followup, advocacy and collaboration with DWC staff and other community service providers.
  • Maintain accurate and timely records of activities, case management notes, and services provided to each participant.
  • Participate in weekly individual and group supervision, in addition to other agency meetings and trainings as required.
  • Participate in quarterly peer chart reviews by providing and responding to colleague feedback and making necessary corrections in a timely manner.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with clients, staff and local service providers, participate in community meetings pertaining to services benefiting clients, and serve as a representative of DWC at community events.
  • Be an ambassador of DWC and its mission and values by participating in community meetings/events.
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and as needed written reports to the Program Supervisor as assigned.
  • Advocate for racial equity and eliminating systemic barriers to housing retention.
  • Additional duties as assigned.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions._

Competencies

  • Strong engagement skills
  • Culturally Responsive
  • Flexibility
  • Empathy
  • Communication
  • Relationship building
  • Teamwork

Supervisory Responsibility
This position does not have supervisory responsibilities.


Work Environment


This position is primarily field-based, meeting clients in the field, but does also sometimes work in a professional office environment.

This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.


Physical Demands


The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. T
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