Outreach Specialist / (SUD Counselor & Healthcare)

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Outreach Specialist will work within a Street-based Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to engage, assess, and develop permanent housing plans with individuals experiencing homelessness, utilizing best practices to provide intensive case management services and crisis intervention.  Outreach Specialist  will collaborate with various community-based organizations to ensure appropriate service connections are obtained and provide follow-up referral/service tracking to individuals experiencing homeless living on the streets. 

• Provides mobile, field-based outreach to people experiencing homelessness living on the streets and in encampments.
• For SUD Counselors, provide specific and certified approaches to Substance Use Disorder support. (CCAPP, SUDCC, etc.)
• For Healthcare, provide specific and certified approaches to heath needs, referral services and immediate medical attention. (Medical Assistant or LVN).
• Works within the goals of CES to reduce street homelessness by linking program participants to mental health, health services housing services, and other supportive services for which they are eligible.
• Motivates individuals experiencing homelessness to engage in outreach services and associated community referrals that promote well-being by building rapport and providing emotional support to participants.
• Works closely with mobile medical team to ensure homeless single adults on the streets are triaged to needed medical care and health care assessment.
• Works collaboratively with other outreach entities in the community (LAHSA, ERC, LAPD, DMH, VA)
• Provides crisis prevention, crisis intervention and de-escalation services as needed.
• Provides ongoing street-based housing focused case management services utilizing a Harm Reduction and Housing First approach.
• Provides follow-up services to ensure that referrals are completed; provide advocacy as needed.
• Maintains thorough and accurate records in both written form and through assigned electronic database.
• Attends various, regular staff, agency and community meetings as designated by supervisor.
  
• Additional tasks, projects, and responsibilities as assigned
  
• Other duties as required.