Part-Time (Evenings/Weekends) Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate

Family Pathways; Cambridge (MN); On-site; USD 25,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Family Pathways in Cambridge, MN is seeking a Part-Time Shelter Advocate for evenings and weekends to support residents of a domestic violence shelter. The role involves crisis intervention, direct service, and systems advocacy guided by our guiding principles.

You will provide intake within 24 hours of entry, facilitate group activities, support residents with problem-solving and de-escalation, and help coordinate personal/legal advocacy in collaboration with shelter staff.

Qualifications

• Provides crisis intervention and advocacy for shelter residents.
• Experience with trauma-informed care and trauma-informed approaches.
• Ability to complete intake and orientation within 24 hours of entry.

Responsibilities

• Provide crisis intervention and direct service to residents.
• Coordinate personal/legal advocacy with staff and residents.
• Assist with intake forms and orient residents to shelter services.
• Plan and facilitate resident groups and activities as directed.
• Provide transportation for residents when necessary.

Job description

Part-Time (Evenings/Weekends) – Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate - Cambridge, MN

Would you like to support and empower individuals in a domestic violence shelter setting? Are you passionate about nurturing connections and providing trauma-informed care? Do you want to be part of a mission-driven team that makes a real difference? If this sounds like you, we invite you to join us as our Shelter Advocate.

The Shelter Advocate is responsible for providing crisis intervention, direct service, and systems advocacy for individuals residing in a domestic violence shelter setting. It is expected that the Shelter Advocate’s job performance will incorporate the practice and promotion of Family Pathways' guiding principles: trust, collaboration, communication, integrity, respect, positivity, and creativity.

Who You Are:

• Capable of providing support, advocacy, crisis intervention, information, and referral to callers on a 24-hour crisis line, while also assessing calls for appropriateness.
• Knowledgeable about providing a Primary Advocate approach, facilitating case planning and coordinating personal/legal advocacy for residents, while also collaborating with staff to review cases and make recommendations.
• Able to complete intake forms with all new residents within 24 hours of entry into the shelter; orient residents to the shelter facility; explain expectations of residents in the shelter, and inform residents of services offered.
• Excited to plan resident groups and activities: support, parenting, illness management, house meetings, etc., as needed and directed.
• Experienced with helping residents hone skills such as problem-solving, crisis management, conflict resolution, and de-escalation, in addition to cultivating a welcoming, peaceful, healing environment for residents.
• Able to provide transportation for residents when necessary.
• Must have a clean Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) and pass a criminal background check with fingerprinting.

Who We Are:

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and - together with the community - champions positive social change. We have been committed to standing by the side of our neighbors since 1978. We’ve done this by working together with partners, individuals, businesses, organizations, and faith communities who are passionate about their communities.

Over the past four decades, we’ve adapted to the needs of the communities we serve in the City of Forest Lake; Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine Counties in Minnesota and Polk County in Wisconsin. Family Pathways support services provide healthy food access, domestic and sexual violence prevention and victim services, supervised visitation, and services for older adults and caregivers.

What You Get in Return

• Starting Salary: $18/hour, plus an additional $1.00/hour shift differential for hours worked between 12 a.m. and 6 am.
• Benefits: Family Pathways offers competitive pay and benefits to our eligible employees. Benefit eligibility is based on average hours worked per week. Benefits offered include health insurance with optional HSA, dental, vision, employer-paid group life term insurance, supplemental group term life insurance, AD&D, long-term disability, short-term disability, critical illness, accident insurance, employee assistance program, and retirement plan with an employer match. In addition to these benefits, Family Pathways offers full-time employees a competitive paid time off package, which includes paid holidays and floating holidays.

Family Pathways is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. Family Pathways will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual or affectional orientation, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other protected class.