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Tubman is seeking a Full Time Youth and Family Worker- Rapid Re-Housing, to provide resources and connections to comprehensive services for clients in Safe Journeys program, housing, and community-based settings.

The shift is Tuesdays- Saturdays from 10 AM - 6:30 PM

Reports to:Youth Community Housing Manager

In this role you serve youth, adults and families by providing intensive case management through Rapid Rehousing support. As a direct services staff, you will provide mentorship and resources to help maximize potential by highlighting individual strengths. You will also serve as a systems change advocate to ensure relevant services for youth, adults and families who represent historically marginalized communities. Join us in pursuit of driving positive changes and be a part of helping to foster thriving people, healthy relationships, and peaceful communities.

Why work for Tubman?Tubman's vision represents the future we want for our clients and the wider community: thriving people, healthy relationships, and peaceful communities. Our mission is to advance opportunities for change so that every person can experience safety, hope, and healing.

Four strategic directions guide our work:

• Clients: Provide streamlined access to exceptional, relevant services
• Community: Engage the community to take action
• Culture: Invigorate organizational culture to lead with equity, wellbeing, and engagement
• Capacity: Strengthen the agency's infrastructure in order to better serve clients and the community

Tubman's philosophy is rooted in our inspiration and namesake, Harriet Tubman. Facing unrelenting adversities, Harriet Tubman encouraged others to simply "Keep going." Each year, Tubman offers safety, hope, and healing to nearly 18,000 people of all ages, gender identities, and cultural backgrounds who face relationship violence, trafficking, homelessness, addiction, mental health challenges, and other trauma. Our culturally responsive services are rooted in decades of research, innovation, experience, and partnership.

Tubman offers a mission-centered culture that values integrity, respect, innovation, partnership, and social justice. Our programs are strength-based, client-centered, and rooted in hope. Our work environment focuses on flexibility, self-care, and work-life balance for all employees.

Tubman's Commitment to Diversity and EquityTubman is fiercely committed to equity and inclusion. We are an affirming workplace that values people's identities and multiple dimensions of diversity. Tubman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strives to hire a workforce that reflects the people we serve. Tubman believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion amongst our staff are vital to both our clients' and the agency's success. We strive to hire, develop, and retain the best people from a diverse pool of candidates. Black, Indigenous, and people of color, people of all gender identities, people with disabilities, and veterans are all encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive support and mentorship to youth and adults and their families who have experienced various forms of violence and/or homelessness
• Promote safety and healing of individuals and families through crisis management, early intervention, and prevention
• Promote healing through creation of a positive environment and provision of comprehensive activities to support goals
• Promote trusting relationships
• Foster healthy relationships through coordinated service delivery methods and systems advocacy
• Provide resources to foster meaningful client outcomes Uphold professional boundaries and client-centered approach
• Manage effective and efficient data practices and communication
• Engage in marketing to ensure awareness about comprehensive agency services, partnerships, and additional community resources
• Access to reliable transportation, beyond Uber/Lyft and Metro Transit

Preferred Candidate

• Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent lived or field experience
• Experience providing crisis response services and direct services advocacy in community settings
• Familiar with tenant rights
• Two years direct service experience related to relationship violence, including sexual assault and exploitation
• Ability to engage diverse youth, parents, and families in activities that promote meaningful relationships and goal attainment
• Ability to foster an inclusive and responsive environment
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary systems change initiatives addressing over representation of marginalized communities in prisons, shelter, and child welfare responses
• Demonstrated effectiveness in upholding a youth development framework within the context of experiences related to historically-based trauma
• Experience in implementing interventions to support complex trauma
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, bend, extensive walking, standing, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Pass DHS Fingerprint Criminal Background Study as required by program licensing.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary for the position is $23.50 per hour. Tubman provides a quality benefits package that includes a highly competitive paid time off program, multiple health plan options, dental, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. As well as other optional health and wellness insurance to meet diverse employee needs, and a 401(k) plan. Tubman is a qualified employer under the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program. In addition, you will have multiple professional development and personal growth opportunities while at Tubman.

To apply

Apply online or send resume and cover letter to: jobs@tubman.org, or mail resume and cover letter to: Harriet Tubman Center East, Attn: HR Department, 1725 Monastery Way, Maplewood, MN 55109