OUTREACH SPECIALIST / LEAD
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Outreach Specialist / LEAD 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 / LEAD 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.
· 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’s ERT, 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 by
Other duties as required.