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Evergreen Treatment Services Bilingual Case Manager - English/Spanish speaking in Seattle, Washington
*The REACH Program of Evergreen Treatment Services *works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. Through outreach, relationships, advocacy and bridging gaps. REACH focuses on reducing harm and supporting healing.
REACH provides outreach-based-care coordination, multidisciplinary clinical services, and supports to access and maintain housing. All services are based in principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving forward through stages of change in their lives.
REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals' lives. We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren't just surviving, but able to thrive.
REACH offers an array of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily assessable treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions.
The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele.
REACH values diversity of lived experience, is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor.
Salary $70,000
Hours: M-F 8:30am-4:30pm
Office location : Belltown
*Job Summary *
The function of this position is to provide outreach, engagement and intensive case management/care coordination to Spanish-speaking individuals who are experiencing substance use disorders, homelessness, and face barriers to accessing needed resources. The purpose of these services is to help individuals achieve psychosocial stability and improved quality of life. Client-centered services are provided from a harm reduction perspective utilizing motivational interviewing skills. The case manager must develop collaborative relationships with staff of other agencies providing services to this population in order to effectively coordinate care. The nature of this position is extremely independent requiring self-motivation and time management skills, creative thinking, multitasking and conflict resolution skills.
* Job Functions (May Include) *
- Provide outreach, engagement, intensive case management and care coordination services in English and Spanish for assigned clients in a culture-informed manner with particular sensitivity to issues specific to immigrants and refugees: Meet clients where they are, either on the streets or at other service facilities (including jail), to explain offered services and establish a working relationship.
Develop rapport and a trusting relationship with clients through respectful outreach and client-centered engagement practices.
Develop and implement in collaboration with the client, an Individualized Service Plan which addresses the client's stated needs and priorities. Review and update this plan regularly to reflect progress or attainment of articulated goals and the emergence of new client needs and to help the client move toward the achievement of autonomy.
Assist clients in obtaining housing and maintaining housing stability.
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