Housing First Stabilization Coordinator

Unison Health•Toledo, OH

19h

About The Position

The Housing First Stabilization Coordinator provides direct therapeutic services to assigned clients with mental illness and adjustment difficulties, including group and individual therapy and diagnostic assessments. The role also uses linkage and advocacy skills to support clients. The coordinator serves clients recently housed through the Housing First Program, helping them stabilize and maintain their housing. This includes supporting independent living, coordinating benefits and care, arranging or providing transportation, addressing barriers, providing in-home therapy, and facilitating groups focused on housing stability and related challenges.

Requirements

An LSW or LPC is required.
Prior experience is required.
Knowledge of mental illness and the ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients.
Ability to define problems, analyze data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make recommendations.
Positive attitude, commitment to superior service, and enthusiastic support for the agency's mission.
CPR certification is required within 90 days of hire.
CPI certification is required within 90 days of hire.
Must be at least 21 years of age.
Must be able to drive and, if hired in a program where driving is required, be insurable under the agency's commercial liability policy as a driver.

Nice To Haves

Working toward an independent license.

Responsibilities

Provide stability coordination to an assigned caseload of clients recently housed through the Housing First Program to support stabilization and housing retention.
Assist clients in establishing a budget.
Coordinate Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other appropriate benefits.
Assess tangible and intangible needs for successful independent living.
Monitor newly housed clients, making at least two contacts per month and linking them to additional services as needed.
Coordinate care with mental health providers as appropriate.
Maintain documentation in accordance with agency policy.
Submit documentation and summaries required by the LCHB and LCMHRS Board.
Attend required program meetings, trainings, and webinars.
Arrange, secure, or provide transportation to facilitate the transition process, including travel to social security offices, county departments of job and family services, banks, and stores.
Assist clients in overcoming potential barriers, such as credit recovery and criminal convictions.
Complete diagnostic assessments for enrollment in Housing First or Supportive Services Programs.
Provide in-home therapy for participants in Housing Programs.
Facilitate group services focused on stabilizing and maintaining housing and addressing barriers such as criminal thinking and recidivism, mental health symptoms, and substance use.
Coordinate with other agency treatment providers for needs outside the scope of the position and housing program.