Summary
Streetwork Project is the oldest street outreach program for homeless and street-involved youth in New York City. The program has grown from its beginnings in 1984 as a storefront project to encompass both outreach and comprehensive harm reduction services. Streetwork’s programs are innovative outreach-counseling programs for homeless youth, which use a harm reduction, client centered, and trauma informed approach. Services include counseling, HIV prevention, case management, drop-in, daily living services, meals, groups, legal services, syringe exchange and overdose prevention services, mental health, and medical. The core service is long-term, one-on-one counseling, which is offered in a non-judgmental and holistic manner utilizing a harm reduction approach that focuses on building trust, fostering self-esteem, exploring options and choices, and empowering youth to change their high-risk behaviors. The Streetwork Overnight is a 24-bed facility for homeless youth ages 16-21. Services include: counseling, case management, meals, laundry, showers, support groups, and access to medical and psychiatric care.
Responsibilities:
- Learn and integrate a trauma-informed, client-centered approach, using an anti-oppressive lens, into your work with clients. Coach and guide staff in their client practice that reflects these approaches.
- Conduct client intakes, safety assessment and risk management
- Provide direct client services, including complex case management and consultation, crisis intervention, supportive counseling and advocacy on behalf of and in partnership with clients
- Provide clinical and task supervision to Overnight Case Managers;
- Oversight of all clinical services, including the implementation of staff trainings, workshops and clinical case conferencing;
- Coordinate and advocate for clients’ housing placements, including transitional independent living;
- Oversee all discharges, referrals and extensions;
- Supervision of all group services;
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation and case files, including reports for funders, utilizing an electronic case record system
- Coorination of inter-site clinical case conferences with Drop-In Center Supervising Social Workers;
- Coordination of psychiatric services with Satellite Clinic at Streetwork Uptown Drop-in;
- Co-facilitation of weekly staff meetings;
- Provide back-up support to the Director;
- In charge in absence of the Director;
- Responsible for after hours on-call supervision on a rotating basis;
Qualifications:
Masters in Social Work or related Masters Degree.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience with appropriate clinical background including experience working with at-risk adolescents and/or homeless population.
- Two years’ experience working within a harm reduction setting is strongly preferred.
- Two years’ experience providing clinical supervision is required.
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
- Understanding of issues confronting homeless youth;
- Understanding of harm reduction philosophy and practice;
- Compassionate and non-judgmental approach;
- Ability to incorporate Evidence Base Framework in working with youth
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AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and other national service alumni are encouraged to apply.
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