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Harm Reduction Specialist

The Harm Reduction Specialist is responsible for the everyday operations related to the drop-in center and all programs and services offered within the drop-in. The Harm Reduction Specialist will also assist in developing, implementing, and modifying all new and existing drop-in programming at the direction of the Associate Director of Drop in Services and Site Manager.

Safety Team Manager 
HHCLA is seeking a Safety Team Manager for the Crocker Campus in Skid Row. This position will directly supervise up to four Team Leads, and support the supervision of up to 18 Safety Specialists. The Safety Team Manager is responsible for the everyday operations and activities related to the Safety Team and maintaining the entire team’s adherence to HHCLA’s comprehensive safety strategy for the Crocker Campus. This strategy is guided by an ethos of “forging relations, not enforcing sanctions” and uses non-punitive, trauma informed crisis intervention strategies to transform conflicts and threats to communal safety into opportunities to strengthen bonds and reinforce communal enfranchisement for clients, staff and partners at the Campus. This position is responsible for ensuring the campus is a safe and welcoming environment for all attendees and staff, through leveraging relationships and empathy to minimize the potential for conflict to occur, and identifying potential conflicts or crises early and working to diffuse them in a restorative manner whenever possible and appropriate.

Safety Team Lead
HHCLA is seeking a Safety Team Lead for the Crocker Campus in Skid Row. This position will directly supervise up to 7 Safety Specialists. The Safety Team Lead is responsible for the everyday operations and activities related to Safety Specialists on their assigned team and maintaining the team’s adherence to HHCLA’s comprehensive safety strategy for the Crocker Campus. This strategy is guided by an ethos of “forging relations, not enforcing sanctions” and uses non-punitive, trauma informed crisis intervention strategies to transform conflicts and threats to communal safety into opportunities to strengthen bonds and reinforce communal enfranchisement for clients, staff and partners at the Campus. This position is responsible for ensuring that their assigned team is adhering to this ethos, ensuring the campus is a safe and welcoming environment for all.

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Site Manager

HHCLA is seeking a Site Manager for the new drop in center spaces at the Crocker and Maple Campuses, and the Center for Harm Reduction (hiring 3 positions total, one for each location). This position directly supervises up to two Team Leads, Client Leadership Coordinator, and supports the supervision of up to 15 Harm Reduction Specialists. The Site Manager is responsible for the everyday operations related to the drop-in center and related programs. This position is responsible ensuring the drop in center is safe and welcoming for people who use substances, and functioning optimally at all times. HHCLA’s harm reduction-focused drop in programs provide a holistic wellness program, which promotes and supports overdose prevention, safer substance use practices, infectious disease prevention, and treatment interventions for people who use drugs and are experiencing homelessness in the Skid Row community. The Site Manager will oversee and/or facilitate access to the following programs offered via the drop in center program: safe supply access, overdose prevention services, naloxone distribution, safer substance use education and training, abscess and wound care services, health and treatment services (e.g. for TB, HIV, Hepatitis, and vaccinations), MAT/linkage to treatment, case management, counseling/therapy, groups/clubs, medical care, respite, daily meals, laundry and showers and other supportive services.

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Associate Director of Drop In Service

HHCLA is seeking an Associate Director of Drop in Services (ADDIS). The ADDIS is a detail and systems-oriented individual with demonstrated competency overseeing safe, dynamic and effective programs and services in a drop-in setting and from a harm reduction lens. This position directly supervises up to five Site Managers and supports the supervision of all Harm Reduction Specialists providing low-threshold services in our buildings. With support from the Program Directors, this position will be tasked with launching and sustaining new programming for clients who access building-based, low threshold services to keep them engaged, educated, and supported in their own decisions, and linked to care both internally at HHCLA and with external partners. This position is responsible for creating and implementing systems to ensure low threshold, building-based program spaces are safe and welcoming, and functioning optimally. The ADDIS will oversee and manage client access to harm reduction supplies and drug checking, overdose prevention services, food and nutrition program, educational and recreational programming and groups, client engagement program, hygiene services (showers and laundry), respite room and clinical/mental health care within HHCLAs drop in spaces.

 

Volunteer and Training Coordinator

The Volunteer and Training Coordinator (VTC) is responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and hosting volunteer events to ensure volunteers have a positive experience at our sites and are supported to be maximally productive. Volunteers interact with the organization in a variety of ways including, at its simplest, preparing supplies and kits for distribution across HHCLA’s harm reduction programs. Other volunteer opportunities include coordinating donation drives, to more technical initiatives such as legal clinic, specialized clinical sessions such as wound care or podiatry clinics, or hazardous waste clean-up events with our Overdose Response Team and other community partners. HHCLA’s volunteer program is the entry point to employment for program clients and other people who use substances (PWUS) or are experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Skid Row. The VTC is someone who is passionate about facilitating the engagement of PWUS/EH in volunteer and employment re-entry activities including resume workshops, job readiness and interviewing 101. The VTC is responsible for ensuring all of HHCLA’s training requirements across contracts are met and that mandatory trainings are completed during onboarding/annually as required (Overdose Intervention, AED/CPR, BBP, etc.). This role will support the professional development of all staff by providing trainings in specified areas on an as needed basis.​

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Recovery Housing Navigator

The primary purpose of HHCLA’s Recovery Housing Navigation (RHN) program is to bridge a critical gap in services in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care. It provides housing focused supportive services for Persons Experiencing Homeless (PEH) with the goal of helping them identify, apply for, secure, and move into permanent housing. Recovery Bridge Housing (RBH) and Recovery Housing (RH) are recovery-oriented interim housing settings which provide housing to participants who are concurrently in treatment for a substance use disorder (SUD) (i.e., RBH) or have recently been in treatment (i.e., RH) and are working to maintain their recovery. Recovery Housing Navigators will work with participants while they are enrolled in RBH or RH to ensure they have a safe and stable housing plan ready for when they are discharged from these settings. The goal of RHN services is to prevent a participant from returning to homelessness. Certain populations, such as PEH, are particularly at risk for relapse without access to housing.​

 

​Clinical Case Manager I/II

Under the direction of the Permanent Supportive Housing Manager, the Clinical Case Manager provides Intensive Case Management Services (ICMS), working directly with program participants in a PSH site to develop, arrange and coordinate treatment services. The CCM provides support with housing maintenance, eviction prevention, and connection to medical, mental health and/or other various community resources that help improve a client’s quality of life.  The targeted populations for Project-Based PSH sites are those experiencing homelessness.​

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Client Engagement Specialist

The Client Engagement Specialist provides face-to-face services to clients who are involved with state, county, and city entities (e.g., probation, courts), engages with clients, and determine which Substance Use Disorder services are most appropriate for individuals based on an ASAM brief triage screening.

Requirements: must be a registered or certified counselor with RADT/CADC/CATC or have a Masters in Social Work or Marriage & Family Therapy.​

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Housing Navigator

Under the direction of the Housing Navigation Program Manager, the Housing Navigator works directly with program participants and develops, arranges and coordinates treatment services. The Housing Navigator provides linkage to permanent, affordable housing service for homeless individuals who meet the criteria to available Homeless Health Care Los Angeles Housing Subsidized Programs. The Housing Navigator also works to improve the health of homeless individuals by assisting with the provision of stable housing, development of a comprehensive treatment plan and facilitating linkages to medical care, mental health care, alcohol/substance use treatment, housing retention and other supportive services.

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