4 Housing Navigator/Recovery Specialist, Northampton Jobs in Northampton, MA
Clinical & Support Options is Hiring a Housing Navigator/Recovery Specialist, Northampton Near Northampton, MA
This shelter will support adults experiencing homelessness in Hampshire County.
The Housing Navigator/Recovery Specialist assists in accessing support services and making referrals to and advocacy with CBOs on behalf of the client. They provide substance abuse education and direct connections to treatment, and provide extended aftercare.
Responsibilities
- Work with homeless individuals identified as a high priority to coordinate services and get them housing ready such as documents, ID and income verification and assist with housing search and placement.
- Access the data system daily to obtain and manage caseload and keep up-to-date client records.
- Assist individuals who are homeless in gathering all documents necessary to obtain permanent supportive or other housing.
- Assist individuals in accessing mental health, addictions and primary care services.
- Provide substance abuse education.
- Support Individual Service Plan development and make case presentation to MDT.
- Participate in assessments as needed with clients to ensure proper supportive services are provided.
- Participate in and prepare for weekly meeting including staff meetings, case conferencing and other related meetings and provide regular feedback to Program manager.
- Collaborate with a network of FOHITS community partners including outreach workers, shelter case managers, housing and other service providers, and understand all roles and responsibilities of each.
- Will participate in FOHITS development and other trainings as they are offered, and will be flexible to the job role evolving as the FOHITS evolves to best meet the needs of the population served.
Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply, (English/Spanish speaking.)
BenefitsWe provide our employees with competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including full coverage health and dental insurance and ample paid time off (vacation, personal, sick, and holidays). Additionally, we offer a 403B retirement savings plan, an employee referral bonus program, regular in-house training and professional development opportunities with free CEUs, and voluntary supplemental insurances at group rates, including short and long-term disability, cancer, accident and life. We also offer a premier employee assistance program (EAP) and personal cell phone plan discounts. Our work environment is flexible and supportive, with ample opportunities for collaboration within and across departments, programs and locations.
Our AgencyClinical & Support Options, Inc. is a behavioral health organization serving individuals and families across Western Massachusetts. From our early days as a child guidance clinic, we have expanded into a full-service behavioral health agency, committed internally to excellence while we collaborate externally with community partners to participate in a comprehensive system of assistance and resources for the residents of our communities. We employ over 650 multi-disciplinary staff, helping thousands of families over the past 50 years. We have community-based office locations throughout Western Massachusetts, including Springfield, Northampton, Greenfield, Orange, Athol, Gardner and Pittsfield.
Our expertise, in a nutshell, is to support people in their progress towards self-sufficiency, no matter what challenges they face on that journey. EOE/AA
Job Summary
Full Time
Sports & Recreation
$35k-48k (estimate)
07/09/2023
06/28/2024
csoinc.org
GREENFIELD, MA
500 - 1,000
1954
KEITH OBERT
$10M - $50M
Sports & Recreation
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About Clinical & Support Options
Clinical & Support Options Inc. (CSO) is a community-based nonprofit behavioral health agency providing individuals and families with comprehensive, holistic care throughout Western Massachusetts and the North Quabbin region. With 16 locations in five Massachusetts counties (Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Worcester), CSO offers an Open Access model, with walk-in availability and No Wrong Door coordinated entry. CSO embraces a trauma-informed culture in fulfillment of its mission to provide responsive and effective interventions and therapeutic services to support adults, children... and families. CSO serves more than 18,000 individuals and families annually in their quest for stability, growth and an enhanced quality of life. CSO provides a full range of behavioral and mental health and substance abuse outpatient services, including: Urgent outpatient assessment & treatment Diagnostic evaluations Therapy for children, adolescents and adults Child and adult psychiatry Sexual abuse and trauma treatment for survivors and families Treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD and general adjustment disorders Group therapy Structured outpatient addiction programs Medication management Intensive outpatient programs CSO Crisis Programs provide behavioral health assessment, intervention and stabilization for youth, families and adults 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. CSOs Family Support Services are part of the Massachusetts Childrens Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI). CSOs Friends of the Homeless (FOH) provides a warm bed and hot shower to more than 1,100 individual adults each year and serves 157,000+ hot meals to anyone in need of food. In addition, FOH case works help FOH guests find work and permanent homes, navigate state and federal assistance programs and access mental health supports.
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