Housing Stabilization Specialist

** This is a hybrid role where applicants should reside within the Boston, MA area to be considered for this position.**

About Activate Care:

At Activate Care, we’re on a mission to improve health equity and drive improved health outcomes across the country. Our Community Care Record platform enables healthcare and community organizations to coordinate care for populations challenged with health-related social needs. Path Assist is our tech-enabled community health worker program for HRSN utilizing an evidence-based, structured intervention. Our goal is simple: increase health confidence, improve self-efficacy, and reduce inappropriate healthcare spend.

Activate Care has partnered with Metro Housing Boston of Massachusetts to provide supportive assistance to a rapidly growing number of unhoused families. 

Role Overview:

The Housing Stabilization Specialist will act as a client advocate, conducts housing stabilization activities to ensure tenancy preservation for families who have transitioned into permanent housing across Massachusetts.  This role will conduct minimum monthly outreach to families and landlords and engage in tenancy preservation activities where appropriate.

This position requires regular on-site presence at the designated housing hub, and their assigned shelter location within Massachusetts. This position will require regular travel to various client locations during designated working hours. 

This position will focus on assisting families and individuals with their unique needs to maintain successful long-term housing. The Housing Stabilization Specialist will support housing initiatives, including but not limited to medical resources, school progress, and connecting families to other resources as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct housing stabilization activities to ensure tenancy preservation fro families who have transitioned out of CCA-supported family shelter sites into permanent housing
• Demonstrate integrity and empathy by working with passion, commitment and honesty in the best interest of colleagues and members in a collaborative manner. 
• Conduct at minimum, monthly outreach to families
• Conduct at minimum, monthly outreach to the landlord
• Medicate relationships between client/family  and landlord
• Intervene if tenancy is endangered
• Advocate for client/family with housing court
• Routinely assess client/family needs as they evolve
• Assist with medical care connections
• Monitor family and children’s school progress
• Document and update the Stabilization plan as required in ETO online platform