About GLIDE
GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.
Position Summary
Journey Home Case Managers spearhead mobile and on-premises client outreach, intake, assessment, and low-threshold to intensive case management: develop and manage individualized care plans, coordinate resources and wrap-around services, transport clients to appointments, connect clients with shelter and housing, facilitate health, mental health, and substance use disorder treatment, arrange travel and transportation, and help clients reunite with family, support networks, and careers for long-term well-being and housing stabilization. In this role, you will create, develop, and steward a caseload of approximately 50-60 clients at various stages of their journey toward housing stabilization and help approximately 8-10 people per month progress from homelessness toward housing stability.
Journey home case managers are assigned a regular shift (AM, PM, Graveyard), must be available to work outside of their regular shift when assigned, and must be available to work special events or serve as emergency workers when required by community need. Shifts can be reassigned or rotated as the business needs of the operations change.
Key Qualities to ensure success in this role:
· Must be able to conduct oneself in a professional manner, model emotional intelligence and self-regulation.
· Consistent attendance and on-time arrival (for all assigned shifts) are crucial.
· Must successfully complete the California Peer-to-Peer Support Specialist certification within 60 days upon hire.