Community Engagement Worker

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada YWCA Toronto Full time

**Community Engagement Worker
- Harm Reduction (Contract)
- (JOB ID-ELM827)**

**Employment Type**:Full-Time, Contract

**Work Hours**:35 hours per week (includes days, evenings, and every 5th weekend; shares on-call duties)

**Salary**:$55,939 per annum (L7), plus comprehensive benefits (April 2023 pay rate)

**Location**:150 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 0B1

**Contract Start Date**:April 17, 2023

**Contract End Date**:March 1, 2024

**Internal Application Deadline**:Thursday, March 23, 2023

**External Application Deadline**:Monday, March 27, 2023

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**JOIN OUR TEAM**

The Community Engagement Worker
- Harm Reduction, is responsible for leading the design and implementation of programming that promotes harm reduction principles and approaches that empowers tenants and tenant-led initiatives. The goal of the position is to create an inclusive community, encourage participation in the broader community, and develop effective harm reduction strategies to meet the emotional, practical, and social support needs of the tenants and the community as a whole. The Community Engagement Worker - Harm Reduction will work within the Community Engagement Program team and alongside the Jean Tweed case management team to ensure that community engagement activities support a positive and dynamic community environment with a focus on health outcomes.

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**ABOUT YWCA TORONTO - YWCA ELM CENTRE**

YWCA Elm Centre includes 300 units of permanent housing for three different resident groups: 165 affordable rental units, 50 units for Indigenous women, gender-diverse people and their families, and 85 supportive units for women and gender-diverse people living with mental health or concurrent mental health and substance use challenges. The Elm Community Engagement Workers provides support and services to the entire residential community, with a focus on community capacity building, housing stabilization, and health promotion.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Creates programming specifically designed to build community capacity through the use of a harm reduction framework that will allow individuals and groups of residents to develop and use harm reduction strategies in all aspects of their lives (health, relationships, independent life skills, housing, etc.);
- Provide harm reduction strategies that will empower individuals as they address issues related to substance use, mental health, health and wellness, and housing;
- Develops, implements, and evaluates workshops, groups, and individual supports that incorporate harm reduction strategies with an understanding of residents’ mental health, addictions, and woman abuse issues, with attention to the value of peer, support in the Indigenous, youth, and supportive housing sub-communities;
- Designs and delivers programming specifically designed to build individual and community capacity through activities that promote the development and use of harm reduction principles in conflict resolution and mediation skills, including peer-led processes for addressing issues of concern to the community;
- Supports tenants in addressing legal notices related to leasing infractions such as arrears, Rent Geared to Income (RGI) documentation, and/or behavior/tenancy challenging issues;
- Assist in conducting intake interviews, ensures relevant documentation is completed/acquired, and support tenants' move-in process as required;
- Uses Stages of Change with a focus on client-centered goals that reduce harm and increase community engagement and cohesiveness;
- The use of trauma-informed practices to support individuals and community engagement/development.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- General knowledge of an academic or technical discipline normally acquired through the completion of an undergraduate degree in a social services or health field (examples: BSW/Social Work, Occupational Therapy, etc.);
- 3 - 5 years experience working in a diverse, direct service setting with adults and families who experience impacts of poverty, homelessness/ under-housing, violence/trauma, mental health/addictions/ or concurrent disorders, and other sources of marginalization or oppression (**Cases for Equivalency will be considered);**:

- Minimum of 3 years experience demonstrating clinical skills in engagement, assessment, counseling, and group programming with an in-depth understanding of harm reduction, trauma, mental health, and substance use;
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in providing support to women living with experiences of precarious housing, poverty, violence/trauma, mental health/concurrent addictions issues;
- Knowledge and understanding of harm reduction approaches as a holistic framework that incorporates supportive housing, community development, advocacy, and peer support;
- Supportive counseling and group-work approach that is flexible, strengths-based, de-escalates tension, and teaches conflict resolution;
- Life Skills certificate and valid food handler certificate, an asset;

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