SCSI Resource Navigator

Job Description
Summary of Position
Reporting to the Seattle Community Safety Initiative (SCSI)Resource Navigation Manager and supported by Resource Navigation Lead, the Resource Navigator partners with the Community Safety Team to form a Care Team that provides intensive wraparound services to participants through relationship building, coaching/mentoring, safety planning, strength and need assessments, goal planning, coordination of community services, and systems navigation and advocacy. Care Team caseloads should be between 10-15 participants. Participants may be supported for up to 18 months.
Essential Responsibilities

• Intake, Assessment, and Goal Setting
• In coordination with the Community Safety Team, provide one-on-one outreach to youth and young adults between the ages of 12 to 30 who meet three risk factors and/or those referred through SCSI and RPKC network. Risk factors include:
• Regularly singled out by law enforcement, even if no arrest
• Has been shot and/or seriously injured from violence
• Has had a close peer, friend, or family member shot and/or killed in the last 3 years
• On probation or parole
• Lives or hangs out in hotspot areas
• History and/or immediate risk for engagement in gun-involved activity
• Connect with participants and establish a supportive relationship
• With Community Safety Team Member, maintain consistent contact - including phone calls, texts, and in-person meetings-with each person on their caseload in accordance with their phase:
• Review service plans with participants every 60 days and edit service plans as needed. Address what barriers have been keeping them from achieving their goals. Celebrate each accomplishment!
• Program Support
• Connect participants to comprehensive wrap-around services such as housing, employment, medical support, mental health, substance use, legal advocacy, etc.
• Schedule appointments for participants and work with Community Safety Team Members to coordinate transportation as needed
• Develop and maintain relationships with systems players with whom participants interact
• Act as an advocate for participants when dealing with other agencies, and support participants to develop their voice and advocate for themselves within systems
• Maintain clear, professional, timely participant contact notes, service plans, progress updates, and other documentation according to all confidentiality guidelines
• Attend weekly supervision meetings with the Resource Navigation Manager to review workload, highlight successes, and find solutions to challenges
• Provide and maintain records for data and tracking reports. Document work, including incident debriefs, client interactions, etc. consistently and accurately
• Attend mandatory meetings to review and refine protocol, plan hot-spot remediation and upcoming events, as well as all other required training and professional development opportunities
• Other
• Participate in meetings, as assigned by supervisor
• Maintain confidentiality as per agency guidelines
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements
Preferred competencies:

• Commit to understand deeply and seek to dismantle the systems of oppression impacting communities of color
• Value the intrinsic worth of young people and their unlimited potential
• Maintain a restorative justice orientation in relationship to staff, partners and participants
• Be a self-aware (know your strengths and weaknesses), engaged and adaptable team player
• Take ownership of projects, be self-motivated, and practice independent problem solving
• Be flexible about changing priorities and manage competing deadlines
• Observe the highest level of discretion in protecting confidential information and preserving database security
• Practice excellent oral and written communication, especially proactive communication
• Exercise a willingness and ability to execute routine administrative procedures and tasks
• Be proficient with mainstream office software such as G Suite, email and calendar scheduling tools

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• 401k
• Aetna Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Insurance
• 100k employer paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Discount Program
• Fin Fit- Financial literacy services
• Metlife Legal Plans
• Generous PTO