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Hours: 40 hours/week Company Sponsored Time: We are piloting a 4-day, 32-hour work week, and YWCA will provide this role 8 hours of Company Sponsored Time for you to use on Fridays to maintain work-life balance while maintaining pay at 40 hours a week. Pay Range: $25/hour + $1 bilingual differential The LGBTQ+ Supportive Services Generalist provides direct advocacy including safety planning, emotional support, legal advocacy, and referrals to community partners, with an emphasis on serving LGBTQ+ survivors. Working closely with the Director of Community Services and Outreach, this position provides training and support to ensure that advocacy services are inclusive and staff are knowledgeable in providing culturally responsive services to LGBTQ+ survivors. This position is also responsible for coordinating ongoing supportive services, such as domestic violence support groups. There is a strong social justice component to all program positions within YWCA, requiring critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty and other forms of oppression. Knowing the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values.

The Children’s Advocate is responsible for developing and implementing services and activities that respond to the unique needs of children, youth and their parent experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence residing at Broadview. Broadview is a DV Shelter and Transitional housing site that is confidential.

The DV Resident Advocate (RA) ensures that there is a staff presence in the building at all times and supports the work of the case manager. The RA assists with promoting the well-being of residents through a team approach of the development of life skills and ensures that residents have the resources and tools needed to become self-sufficient and contributing members of their community.

The SafeChoice Shelter On Call Advocate help to provide supportive and low barrier emergency shelter services to survivors of domestic violence. The SafeChoice shelter provides comprehensive support to victim/survivors of domestic violence, all services provided are trauma-informed, survivor-centered and in compliance with contract requirements. This position is responsible for providing direct service advocacy in the SafeChoice Domestic Violence Shelter, services are provided 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The SafeChoice Shelter On Call Advocate provides services that align with agency values, supports direct service staff while modeling positive self-care. This position provides coverage for shelter shifts when full time shelter staff are not available to work due to illness or other leave from work.

The Housing Navigator will support veterans that have a VASH voucher through the public housing authorities in Snohomish County. The Housing Navigator will identify permanent housing units in the private rental market for voucher holders, work closely with the case managers from the VASH program to ensure clients are connected to services, and provide crisis intervention for clients at risk of losing their housing which could include a home visit or meeting with the landlord. The position is part of the YWCA Homeless Initiatives Department, which is part of the Specialized and Integrated Services Division of the YWCA. These programs have a reputation in the community for providing culturally competent services with particular emphasis on serving homeless and low-income families and individuals. Valuing diversity and championing anti-racism policy and program delivery are core values. This position has a social justice component that will allow for critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Valuing diversity and championing anti-racism policy are core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

DVSAS is hiring an On-Call Relief Advocate! The On-Call Relief Advocate ensures that individuals accessing advocacy services outside of DVSAS business hours receive crisis intervention, information and referral services, and basic legal and medical advocacy. They may also support volunteers and interns to provide professional, meaningful services.

The Domestic Violence Program Manager is responsible for developing and coordinating services to victims of domestic violence in shelter, transitional housing, and the Broadview’s RRH program. This position provides legal advocacy services, as well as the supervision of the Broadview Domestic Violence RRH Advocate and interns. The Domestic Violence Program Manager is also part of the on-call supervision of team working evenings and weekends. During this time, the position is responsible for determining program staffing levels, providing staff supervision, and responding to emergency personnel including law enforcement, emergency medical providers and the fire department during client and building emergencies.

The Domestic Violence Program Director is responsible for overseeing operations of all services, including supervision of the 24-hour staff team and development and oversight of the department budget. The Director is also part of the on-call team evenings and weekends one to two weeks per month and provides back up support to supervisory on-call staff as needed. On-call coverage includes determining program staffing levels, providing staff supervision, and responding to emergency personnel including law enforcement, emergency medical providers and the fire department during client and building emergencies.

Broadview is a 24-hour facility providing emergency shelter (10 units), transitional housing (21 units) and support services to women, children, and youth whose lives have been disrupted by family violence, substance abuse, inadequate medical and mental health care, long periods of family separation, child abuse and neglect and poverty. Support services include on site crisis intervention, case management and advocacy-based counseling, legal advocacy, information and referral, and long-term stabilization services. The Administrative Coordinator is responsible for the overall fiscal, contractual and administrative operations of the program and provides assistance to the Program Director.