Housing Stabilization Specialist (haitian Creole Or Spanish)

**** This is an onsite role where applicants should reside within the Raynham**, **MA area to be considered for this position. ****

About Activate Care:

At Activate Care, we’re on a mission to improve health equity and drive improved health outcomes across the country. Our Community Care Record platform enables healthcare and community organizations to coordinate care for populations challenged with health-related social needs. Path Assist is our tech-enabled community health worker program for HRSN utilizing an evidence-based, structured intervention. Our goal is simple: increase health confidence, improve self-efficacy, and reduce inappropriate healthcare spend. 

Activate Care has partnered with Commonwealth Care Alliance & Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide supportive temporary emergency shelter to families under the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities’ Emergency Assistance program.  To assist a rapidly growing number of unhoused families, including thousands of families migrating from Haiti due to natural disasters and civil unrest.

Role Overview:

The Housing Stabilization Specialist will act as a client advocate, and conduct housing stabilization activities to ensure tenancy preservation for families who have transitioned out of CCA-supported family shelter sites into permanent housing across Massachusetts.  This role will conduct minimum monthly outreach to families and landlords and engage in tenancy preservation activities where appropriate. Additionally, they will support housing initiatives, including but not limited to medical resources, school progress, and connecting families to other resources as appropriate.

This position requires regular on-site presence at the designated housing hub and their assigned shelter location within Massachusetts. This position will require regular travel using their personal vehicle to travel to various client locations during designated working hours to ensure families and individuals address unique needs to maintain successful long-term housing.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct housing stabilization activities to ensure tenancy preservation for families who have transitioned out of CCA-supported family shelter sites into permanent housing
• Demonstrate integrity and empathy by working with passion, commitment and honesty in the best interest of colleagues and members in a collaborative manner.
• Conduct at minimum, monthly outreach to families
• Conduct at minimum, monthly outreach to the landlord
• Medicate relationships between client/family  and landlord
• Intervene if tenancy is endangered
• Advocate for client/family with housing court
• Routinely assess client/families needs as they evolve
• Assist with medical care connections
• Monitor family and children’s school progress
• Document and update the Stabilization plan as required in ETO online platform
• Document progress with ETO touchpoints
• Collaborate with case managers and housing navigation liaisons to ensure smooth transitions of family support
• Other duties as assigned