Housing Specialist, Flagstone Family Center

Overview

Who We Are: CAMBA is a community of staff, volunteers, clients, donors, neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City, where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We offer more than 180 integrated programs in Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Job Training & Employment Support Services, Health, Housing, and Legal Services.

We reach almost 80,000 individuals and families, including almost 13,000 youth. CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are living in poverty, reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.

CAMBA operates 6 single adult shelters and 6 family shelters and one drop in center. Each shelter offers clients a supportive, structured therapeutic, safe, and drug-free facility. Homeless (often mentally-ill and substance-abusing) men and women are provided with comprehensive services to stabilize their condition in order to successfully transition into to permanent and/or supported housing.

CAMBA’s Flagstone Family Center provides comprehensive case management services to 160 families who are in a Tier II transitional residence program for homeless families. The facility consists of eight (8) four (4) story walk up apartment buildings on the east and west sides of the street. There will be two main entrances: one for the east side of the street and one for the west.

Each building contains 20 apartments of varying sizes, each fully self-contained.

Position: Housing Specialist

Reports To: Case Manager Supervisor

Location: 199 Amboy Street Brooklyn, NY 11212

The person filling this position is expected, under close supervision, to:

• 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…