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YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish Student & Family Life Coach in Seattle, Washington
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.
We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!
**What You'll Do
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The primary responsibility of the Student & Family Life Coach is to assist families experiencing housing instability in achieving long-term stability and independence. This position focuses on Black/African-American families with students that attend Seattle Public School in maintaining current housing or obtaining permanent housing. Services provided include, but are not limited to support with finding emergency shelter, employment, housing search, landlord liaison activities, financial coaching, and housing counseling.
Your Impact: you'll work closely with their manager to implement new housing and employment strategies aimed at linking housing case management and employment services with the goal of making progress toward living-wage employment and housing stability.
This position support the YWCA's Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions play out in institutions and systems. Knowing the core principles of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday social service practices are required job skills and core values of the YWCA.
As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Expectations of your role:
Systems Navigation/Assessments
- Conduct a thorough family assessment using screening, intake and provide relevant services and resources based on family needs. This includes determining eligibility of program participants for YWCA services.
- Work with families to set goals and objectives around obtaining and maintaining employment encouraging self-reliance and self-determination, leading to stabilization in permanent housing.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of community resources and provide appropriate referrals to address barriers to stable housing and employment (e.g. medical, mental health, chemical dependency, domestic violence, etc.).
- Effectively collaborate with co-workers, other YWCA programs and the school district to provide comprehensive services to meet families' needs
Record keeping and Compliance
- Maintain complete and accurate auditable file for each family and assist in collecting and compiling families data to complete funders program reports
- Keep case notes updated and complete daily after each meeting and/or interaction with families. Document service provided and track families progress
- Actively participate in regular supervisory and team or unit meetings
Collaboration
Work internally with other YWCA departments (e.g. Children and Youth Services, Gender Based Violence Intervention and Prevention, Economic Advancement, Health and Safety) to provide seamless service provision
Create external connections with other culturally responsive social service providers or institutions (e.g. public schools, medical providers, governm