Peer Support Worker

6 months ago

New Westminster, Canada Aunt Leah's Place Full time

**Peer Support Worker**

**Who We Are**:
Aunt Leah’s Place is a non-profit organization that helps prevent youth in foster care from becoming homeless and mothers from losing custody of their children. Aunt Leah’s Place aims to support youth on their journey to self-sufficiency; providing supported housing, job training, and education on essential life skills.

**Job Summary**:
**Reports To**: Link Program Coordinator

**Salary**:Starting at $23.00/ hr

**Qualifications & Requirements**:

- Minimum high school completion or equivalent
- Lived experience in the foster care system
- Minimum of 1 year related experience preferably, in peer support working with under-housed youth and families and individuals experiencing homelessness

**Assets**:

- RentSmart training
- Mental Health First Aid
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Certification

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**:

- Communication skills (verbal and written)
- Flexibility/adaptability in managing multiple priorities
- Ability to follow and implement program policies and procedures
- Computer/technical literacy
- Interpersonal abilities and teamwork skills
- Planning/organizing and budgeting skills
- Cultural safety/competency
- Documentation skills
- Creative problem solving
- Knowledge of the Residential Tenancy Act
- Crisis management, de-escalation, and conflict resolution skills
- Knowledge of the principles of Housing First
- Ability to work independently
- **Key Duties and Responsibilities**:_

**1.** **Direct Care**:

- Provide outreach and support to participants, primarily in an office setting
- Support, encourage, and collaborate with participants through developing a trusting relationship, using a trauma-informed approach to practice. Responsibilities include:

- Facilitate housing readiness
- Support with budgeting as it pertains to housing - understanding rent amounts based on the type of housing, location, etc.
- Connect participants to tenant resources, including the Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) and the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre (TRAC)
- Connect participants to affordable housing
- Support participants with housing searches, educate participants on how to respond to housing postings, and provide advocacy with landlords, as needed
- Connect participants to emergency housing, supportive housing, and private market housing options
- Connect participants to external housing subsidies, as needed
- Provide housing advocacy and support housing maintenance
- Support participants with tenancy challenges, to prevent evictions
- Educate participants about tenants’ rights and responsibilities
- Connect participants to other external housing-related workshops and resources
- Refer participants to other internal and external services, including mental health, education, and employment supports, as needed
- Prevent homelessness through moving support
- Book movers for participants, as needed
- Connect, or reconnect, participants to tenant resources

**2.** **Direct Care (Housing First)**:

- Embrace the Six Principles of Housing First:
1) **Rapid access to housing with supports**:

- Support participants with finding and securing permanent housing as rapidly as possible
- Assist participants with rehousing if needed
- Understands that housing readiness is not a requirement to secure housing

**2)** **Offering participants’ choice in housing**:

- Provide choice in terms of housing options as well as the services participants wish to access

**3)** **Separating housing provision from other services**:

- Understand that acceptance of any services, including treatment, or sobriety, is not a requirement for accessing or maintaining housing

**4)** **Providing tenancy rights and responsibilities**:

- Educate participants on tenancy rights and responsibilities, in accordance with the Residential Tenancy Act

**5)** **Integrating housing into the community**:

- Understand that, in order to respond to participant choice, minimize stigma, and encourage client social integration, more attention should be given to scattered-site housing in the public or private rental markets

**6)** **Strength-based and promoting self-sufficiency**:

- Facilitate participants’ self-determined goals toward independence and self-sufficiency
- Collaborate with internal and external life skills, education, employment, mental and physical health, and housing services

**3.** **Direct Care (other duties)**:

- Inform past participants of upcoming events and activities, and participates in the planning and facilitating of events and activities as required
- Assist with facilitating drop-in and workshops for participants, as needed
- Follow up on internal and external referrals, as requested by Aunt Leah’s Case Managers and Link Coordinator
- Assist with creating, reviewing, and modifying service agreements with participants on a regular basis
- Educate, inform, and advocate for participants regarding benefits and entitlements (government assistance, h

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