Anti-Trafficking Services Caseworker

PREBLE STREET•Portland, OR

9d•Onsite

About The Position

For over 10 years, Preble Street has been a leader in the anti-trafficking movement in Maine. Working with a network of partners to promote individual and systemic justice, Preble Street’s Anti-Trafficking Services (ATS) provides survivor-centered services toward healing, growth, and self-sufficiency to people who have been trafficked and forced into commercial sex work, domestic services, agricultural work, restaurant work, or other labor. Preble Street is seeking a full-time Caseworker to work with the ATS team to provide intensive case management, housing-related services, and targeted outreach activities. While facilitating access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met, Caseworkers also provide crisis intervention and support; carry out program coverage; collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care; document and report services provided; and work with the ATS team and participate in various program activities toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives. This position has opportunities for work in Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor.

Requirements

A combination of education or study in social work or related field and relevant experience working with trafficking survivors or similar populations, OR comparable combination of education and lived experience
Understanding of and commitment to low-barrier service provision, housing-first principles, harm reduction, and empowerment approaches, and issues related to human trafficking survivors and other experiences of trauma
Understanding of systemic racism, oppression, social and economic justice, and issues related to historically excluded/marginalized groups and communities
Positive regard for individuals fleeing violence, experiencing homelessness, poverty, engaging in commercial sex, and other complex situations
Effective crisis intervention skills
Ability to establish boundaries in challenging situations
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Computer skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work 40 hours a week, with regular and consistent attendance

Nice To Haves

Bi/multi-lingual skills

Responsibilities

Provide intensive case management
Provide housing-related services
Conduct targeted outreach activities
Facilitate access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met
Provide crisis intervention and support
Carry out program coverage
Collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care
Document and report services provided
Work with the ATS team and participate in various program activities toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives