Location
San Jose, California
Salary
$25 - $28 / HOUR
Provide outreach, engagement, and case management to homeless adults with serious mental health and substance use disorders. Assist participants in accessing community treatment, public benefits, and navigating the criminal justice system.
Requires a high school diploma and personal lived experience with recovery from addiction, homelessness, or mental health challenges. Must have six months of field experience and a valid California Driver's License with a clean DMV record.
Abode, one of the largest and effective nonprofits working to end homelessness in the Bay Area, is seeking a Peer Specialist for our Renascent Place program in San Jose, Ca.
The Peer Specialist provides outreach, case management, or rehabilitative services. This position, along with team members will provide outreach, engage, house, and wrap around clinical services to participants. These participants will be identified through county data and other assessment processes as being the most frequent users of emergency services, criminal justice, and other homeless/county services in the County. Program participants will have Serious Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and/or Chronic Health Conditions.
You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams - people you can be proud to work with! Abode Services regularly recognizes employees’ efforts, seeks employees’ input, and cares for employees as people with lives outside of work. We believe that we make better decisions and provide quality services when our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. People of color make up nearly 70% of our workforce and we strive to recruit and retain employees from all backgrounds.
This description is to be used as a guide only. It does not constitute a contract, commitment or promise of any kind. Abode Services reserves the right to change, add, delete, upgrade, or downgrade the position as dictated by business necessity at any time with or without notice.
Abode Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Drug Free Workplace.
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