Community Navigator- Housing Services (20786811)

Tri-City Mental Health Authority; Pomona (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Tri-City Mental Health Authority in Pomona is recruiting a Community Navigator to support the Navigator Team within the Housing Services Department. You will perform community-based duties, including outreach, referrals, and linking individuals to housing and behavioral health resources.

The ideal candidate has an associate degree or relevant coursework and at least two years of outreach experience. Bilingual in Spanish preferred but not required; bilingual candidates encouraged.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience providing outreach to a diverse community for health or behavioral health programs, or a related field.
• Equivalent to an associate degree with college-level coursework in community health, behavioral health, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with agencies to outreach, engage, and refer individuals to services and housing programs.
• Provides outreach and information on community resources and referrals; links individuals to agencies and health providers.
• Recruits community-based organizations and faith-based groups to build a local support network for people with behavioral health needs.
• Performs home, shelter, or street visits to provide information and education; supports unsheltered individuals and advocates for tenant needs.
• Identifies and provides transitional housing options and helps tenants contact property managers to prevent evictions.

Skills

Outreach

Community engagement

Referral coordination

Advocacy

Education

Associate degree

Job description

$2500 SIGN-ON BONUS!

Do you love interacting with the community and helping connect people with resources to meet various needs?

Are you passionate about behavioral health and/or community services?

Tri-City is now actively recruiting to filla Community Navigatorposition that will support our Navigator Team within our Housing Services Department. The Community Navigators will report to a Program Supervisor and perform a variety of community-based duties, including but not limited to:

• Collaborates with Full Service Partnership agencies in the service area to appropriately outreach, engage, and refer individuals to these agencies; engages in promotion and collaboration amongst interagency departments in an effort to promote all Authority programs and events when out in the community.
• Provides outreach services; engages with people who need services and their families to help them identify currently available services, including formal and informal supports and services tailored to the particular cultural, ethnic, age, and gender identity of those seeking them; provides information on community resources and referrals; links individuals to agencies, health care providers, and other community networks; follows up with those individuals to ensure they have connected with support structures and are receiving assistance for their needs.
• Provides information and uses Authority resources to meet with agencies, faith-based organizations, and attend other community events; recruits community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and other community groups to become part of an active and ever growing locally-based support network for people, including those most challenged by behavioral health issues.
• Performs visits to individuals and their families in their homes, shelters, or on the streets to provide information and education; provides support to individuals who are unsheltered or at risk of becoming unsheltered; provides advocacy for at-risk tenants in contacting property managers to prevent or delay evictions; identifies and provides transitional housing options to individuals and their families

Ideal Candidate

Education

• Equivalent to an associate degree with college-level coursework in community health, behavioral health, or a related field.

Experience

• Two (2) years of experience providing outreach to a diverse community for health or behavioral health programs, or a related field.

Preferredcandidates will be bilingual in Spanish but it is not required.