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This employee will conduct lethality assessments with SafePlace clients to determine their need for DVHRT enrollment. They will provide ongoing advocacy, safety planning, and support to clients in the DVHRT program. This may include court accompaniment and support at law enforcement interviews. The DVHRT Coordinator will prioritize safety planning with identified high-risk clients and will help connect survivors to safe shelters and hotels as appropriate. The DVHRTC will collaborate with team members from the High-Risk Team (HRT) to ensure the safety and voice of the survivor is at the table during meetings. The DVHRTC will work closely with their Program Manager to gather and document relevant data for the team regarding progress and gaps in services.

In a culturally relevant manner, develop, coordinate and manage the SafePlace Housing Assistance Program. Provide program oversight to include monitoring the amount of flexible funding available and supervising the Housing Case Manager. Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with housing programs, landlords and other community agencies that will support clients in accessing, securing and maintaining permanent housing.

This position works within the Office of Crime Victims Advocacy and assists with Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) program development and implementation. The position provides technical assistance to community partners with consultation from section manager. It monitors compliance and accuracy of data with reporting to support data driven decisions and manages the full grant cycle.

This temporary full-time position at SafeChoice Housing and Hotline in Vancouver, WA, involves providing direct services and advocacy to survivors of domestic violence, assisting them with housing barriers, and ensuring access to necessary resources. The role requires a commitment to social justice, cultural competency, and maintaining strong community partnerships while managing program budgets and administrative tasks.

Provide trauma-informed legal assistance and representation to survivors of domestic violence in protection order and family law cases for the Domestic Violence Legal Advocacy Project (DV LEAD). Work in collaboration with referrals from community and systems-based survivor-focused advocacy organizations.

The Legal Case Manager provides trauma-informed support to clients as they seek advice and representation with a domestic violence protection order and/or a family law case. Client support is provided throughout the various phases of the case from initial client contact through the completion of legal representation.

The primary responsibility of the Rapid Re-housing Life Coach is to help secure and stabilize housing for families experiencing homelessness, or housing instability. This short-term housing intervention is intended to quickly move families experiencing homelessness into permanent housing. Services provided include, but are not limited to support with housing search, landlord liaison activities, financial coaching, and housing counseling. This position will work closely with the Housing Program Manager to implement new housing and employment strategies aimed at linking housing case management and employment services with the goal of making progress toward living-wage employment and housing stability. This position supports the YWCA’s Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions play out in institutions and systems. Knowing the core principles of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday social service practices are required job skills and core values of the YWCA. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

The YWCA of Seattle King Snohomish Gender-Based Violence Specialized Services provides culturally relevant services that are designed to meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence/sexual assault and commercial sexual exploitation. Gender Based Violence, Legal Navigator will provide legal advocacy to adult survivors which could include support with protection orders, family law, CPS, housing navigation, safety planning and life skills, employment, housing, and etc. This position will use a model of best practice trauma-informed advocacy with a strength based approach. This position has a social justice component that will allow for critical thinking around how the external systems influences 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.

YWCA Seattle | King | Snohomish, one of the largest nonprofits in the region, focuses on the needs of women, girls, and families in the community, is searching for a Gender Based Violence Transitional Housing Advocate to join their team in the South King County, WA area. YWCA offers transitional housing for women and children experiencing homelessness and gender-based violence. YWCA is dedicated to serving survivors of gender-based violence who are willing and interested in actively participating in goal planning and action steps for restoring long-term safety, stability, and independence. The Gender Based Violence Transitional Housing Advocate is responsible for serving survivors through transitional housing, case management and facilitating needed wraparound programs for participant residents and their onsite families. As an DV Advocate you will also provide trauma informed advocacy to adult survivors which may include support with safety planning, life skills, employment, etc. Note: This position is fully onsite at YWCA Offices.

The Campus & Community Advocate (CCA) provides trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and empowerment-based advocacy to survivors of domestic violence throughout the community and Campuses of our partner colleges. CCA meets with survivors where they feel safe throughout the community or college campus, so their time will be divided between various locations in South King County including Green River College (Auburn and Kent campuses), Bellevue College and will have some office hours in Kent. M-F

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. This is a residential program with onsite staffing.

This is a case-management position focusing on assisting DV survivor households experiencing homelessness to become rapidly re-housed in private rented accommodation with financial assistance and supportive services to promote long-term housing stability. Given this, the advocate will at times provide mobile advocacy services by driving to meet with and/or accompany clients to various locations throughout Seattle and King County.

This position provides advocacy, support, information and technical assistance to victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) who have or are starting a civil legal case in the Pierce County jurisdiction, including family law cases or domestic violence protection orders. YWCA Pierce County Legal Advocates assist clients to understand and navigate the court system and the local community service system, so clients can advocate for themselves. Advocates do not give legal advice.

The Managing Attorney plans, directs, and leads the YWCA's Legal Services Program, which provides protection order and family law assistance to survivors of intimate partner violence. This position maintains a limited case load and provides zealous legal representation to clients in family law and protection order cases. This position ensures that program obligations are carried out in accordance with all required laws and contracts, and within best-practice parameters. Responsible for short and long-term planning and strategy, staff development, assisting in budget development, quality assurance, and outcome and statistical reporting. The Managing Attorney functions as part of the leadership team for the agency.