Family Stability Navigator

The Gathering Place; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Breakfast and lunch

Employee Assistance Program

Yoga membership

Job summary

The Gathering Place in Denver seeks a Family Resource Navigator to identify member needs and provide comprehensive care via referrals, navigation, and financial assistance, supporting pathways to stability. This in-person role operates during site hours within the Stability and Recovery Programs.

The role emphasizes low-barrier, trauma-informed approaches, with a focus on community connections and respectful, strength-based engagement with families.

Qualifications

• Motivated and self-driven.
• Ability to work autonomously or within a team.
• Organized, efficient, reliable, detail oriented.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to tailor communication to each audience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc), or willingness to learn.
• Bilingual with Spanish language proficiency preferred.
• Knowledge of homelessness, poverty, women and trans issues, substance misuse a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assess families to understand their needs, challenges, and goals like housing, food insecurity, physical and mental health, benefits assistance, financial aid, employment, and follow through with their plan to completion.
• Works directly with families onsite at TGP to provide strength-based and member-directed navigation support, housing connection, and stabilization services using culturally responsive and evidenced-based practices.
• Makes connections, referrals, and outreach to external programs that connect families to resources and achieve needs.
• Achieves established programmatic goals and outcomes.
• Develops relationships with program participants that are marked with dignity and respect, and that foster hope and empowerment.
• Demonstrates respect, cultural competence, and knowledge of trauma informed care and low barrier practices in interactions with TGP members, staff, and collaborative partners.
• Helps to maintain a clean, trauma-informed environment for staff and members.
• Ensures completion of all program effort documentation and data entry as required, in a timely manner.
• Regularly participates in supervision and team meetings.
• Work is onsite and during operating hours.
• Proactively engage in de-escalation, crisis prevention, and crisis mitigation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Motivated and self-driven

Autonomy / teamwork

Organized / detail oriented

Verbal and written communication

Bilingual Spanish

Cultural competence

Trauma-informed approach

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Gathering Place in Denver seeks a Family Resource Navigator to identify member needs and provide comprehensive care via referrals, navigation, and financial assistance, supporting pathways to stability. This in-person role operates during site hours within the Stability and Recovery Programs.

The role emphasizes low-barrier, trauma-informed approaches, with a focus on community connections and respectful, strength-based engagement with families.