Housing First Stabilization Coordinator

Unison Health•Toledo, OH

About The Position

The Housing First Stabilization Coordinator provides direct therapeutic and stabilization services to clients with mental illness and adjustment difficulties who have recently been housed through the Housing First Program. The role supports clients in achieving stability and maintaining housing through individual and group therapy, diagnostic assessments, benefits coordination, advocacy, care coordination, and connections to additional services. Services may be provided in clients’ homes and in community settings.

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 providing superior services, and enthusiastic support for the agency’s mission.
CPR certification required within 90 days of hire.
CPI certification required within 90 days of hire.
Must be at least 21 years of age.
Must be able to drive and be insurable under the agency’s commercial liability policy as a driver if hired into a program where driving is required.

Nice To Haves

Working toward an independent license is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide stability coordination to an assigned caseload of recently housed Housing First clients to support stabilization and housing retention.
Assist clients in establishing a budget.
Coordinate client benefits, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other appropriate benefits.
Assess clients’ 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 when needed.
Coordinate care with mental health providers as appropriate.
Maintain required 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 needed to facilitate clients’ transitions, including travel to social security offices, county departments of job and family services, banks, and stores.
Help clients overcome potential barriers, such as credit recovery and criminal convictions.
Complete diagnostic assessments for enrollment in the Housing First or Supportive Services Programs.
Provide in-home therapy for participants in Housing Programs.
Facilitate group services focused on housing stabilization and other barriers that may affect stability, including 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.