CAHP Coordinator - Family

Homelessness Prevention; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Homelessness Prevention in Washington, DC is seeking a CAHP Coordinator - Family to implement Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement processes. You will work with the CAHP Administrator to update policies, maintain manuals, and lead matching and referral activities to connect households to housing resources.

This salaried, at-will role requires coordinating data collection and reporting, developing CAHP trainings, and participating in policy meetings to improve service delivery for

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating housing resources and policy updates.
• Ability to craft and maintain manuals and training materials.
• Strong data quality and reporting skills.
• Experience with CAHP or similar homeless services workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead updating CAHP manuals and subsystem policies.
• Coordinate matching processes, referrals, and meetings.
• Develop CAHP training curricula and orientation for new agencies.
• Collect and report subsystem data to inform policy decisions.
• Support external meetings with partner agencies.

Job description

Job Details

• JOB TITLE:** CAHP (Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement) Coordinator - Family
• SALARY:** $65,000-$75,000

Additional Details

• JOB TITLE:** CAHP (Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement) Coordinator - Family
• JOB TYPE:** Full-Time, At-Will, Salaried Position
• SALARY:** $65,000-$75,000

Summary

Coordinated Entry, locally referred to as Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement (CAHP), is the federally mandated process through which the District of Columbia Continuum of Care (CoC) identifies households experiencing homelessness and connects them with available housing resources. The CAHP Coordinator is responsible for implementing the Districts CAHP system in accordance with guidelines established by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the local CoC. The CAHP Coordinator will support the CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) with crafting CAHP related policies, components of special projects, data and reporting for their specific subsystem, along with participating in policy meetings. The CAHP Coordinator will lead maintenance of manuals and policy documents, directly implement matching processes in their subsystem, and will be responsible for developing curriculum for CAHP-specific trainings.

Policy

• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to update subsystem specific matching policies at least annually, including obtaining feedback on policies, evaluating CAHP system performance, and presenting recommended changes;
• Leads updating and maintaining CAHP system manuals;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to support, participate in or lead relevant community and policy meetings

Matching

• Complete all pre-work for CAHP related matching processes and/or meetings, including but not limited to creating pre-check forms, By Name Lists, reviewing and approving case conferencing requests, creating match meeting agendas, confirming housing vacancies;
• Facilitate offline referral processes and/or meetings to identify referrals to available housing resources;
• Complete all post work for CAHP related matching processes and/or meetings, including but not limited to recording matches in HMIS, updating internal and external trackers with match information, sharing match information with community providers;
• Conduct other offline care coordination activities with service providers and/or other agencies to help connect households experiencing homelessness to services and prepare for connection to housing supports

Special Projects

• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) on components of general CAHP team projects and subsystem specific projects;
• Leads developing curriculum for CAHP-specific trainings;
• Leads orientation meetings to orient new agencies that are joining CAHP

Data And Reporting

• Leads ongoing subsystem specific data collection, analyze subsystem specific data, and present data to the community;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to report on performance of their specific subsystem;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to ensure high data quality for CAHP-specific data elements

Other

• Attend meetings that are led by our partner agencies
• Other duties as assigned as deemed appropriate