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Weekend Advocate information

What is a weekend advocate?

Weekend Advocates are professionals who provide support, guidance, or representation to individuals or groups during weekends. They often work in social services, crisis intervention, domestic violence shelters, or advocacy organizations, ensuring help and resources are available outside of standard weekday hours. Their responsibilities may include crisis counseling, providing information about services, and connecting clients to resources. Weekend Advocates play a crucial role in ensuring continuous support for people in need, especially during times when regular office staff may not be available.

What are some common challenges weekend advocates face when balancing high caseloads with limited weekend resources?

Weekend Advocates often encounter high demand for support services while working with fewer onsite resources compared to weekdays. This can require creative problem-solving and strong time management as you coordinate care, communicate with offsite staff, and handle urgent situations. Building solid relationships with community partners and having a thorough understanding of local resources can help you address clients’ needs efficiently. Collaboration and clear documentation are also crucial for ensuring continuity of care when weekday staff return.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a weekend advocate, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Weekend Advocate, you typically need experience in crisis intervention, knowledge of community resources, and a background in social work or a related field. Familiarity with case management software, hotline systems, and confidentiality protocols is often required. Strong active listening, emotional resilience, and effective communication skills help advocates support clients in high-stress situations. These competencies ensure that clients receive timely, empathetic assistance and appropriate referrals during critical weekend hours.
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Part-Time Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate - Every other weekend

Family Pathways

Cambridge, MN

$18/hr

Full-time, Part-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 24 days ago


Job description

Employment Opportunities >> Part-Time Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate - Every other weekend
Part-Time Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate - Every other weekend
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Title: Part-Time Domestic Violence Shelter Advocate - Every other weekend ID: 2095 Location: Cambridge, MN Department: Domestic Violence
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PART-TIME (EVERY OTHER WEEKEND POSITIONS) - 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 Advocates' 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.


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 with an additional $1/Hour shift differential for hours worked between 12 am - 6 am.
  • Available Part-Time Position(s)
    • 1 - Every other weekend, Friday and Sunday.
    • 1 - Every other weekend, Saturday and Sunday. 
  • 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.

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