ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

MCM’s Youth Housing First for young people (Housing First Young People Leaving Care) program is an innovative five-year program focused on providing housing and support to eligible young people leaving care. It will be delivered across South-East regions of Victoria, in partnership with Quantum Support Services and Junction Support Services and compliment existing supports for young people.
This program is the first of its kind in Victoria and Australia for young people leaving care, and we are very excited to lead this with our partners and work with young people to shape this program into the future.
Housing First is a program that will provide housing, personalised case work and tenancy support for young people leaving Residential care, other care types, or custodial settings.

This program will:

• Provide housing stability that enables young people to achieve their transition goals across housing and independent living, health and wellbeing, education, employment and community connections, strengthen social, community, cultural and where appropriate, family connections
• Improve health outcomes for young people and increased educational attainment and employment participation rates
• Reduce the risk of homelessness and contact with the justice system.

The role of the Youth Worker, Youth Housing First is to provide Young People with flexible support that is tailored to their needs, with the level of support varying during the Young Person’s time in the program.
Ensuring the program is led by Advantaged Thinking, Sustaining Tenancies, Housing First, and Healing Informed principles allows us to respond creatively to build capacity, relationships, create space for healing, and assist Young People to strengthen community connections, sustain housing, and divert away from the experience of youth homelessness.
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ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who can:

• Effectively manage work with a dedicated number of young people and develop advanced goal directed case planning and crisis interventions underpinned by Advantaged Thinking to meet the needs of Young People presenting with multiple needs, including risk assessments and safety plans.
• Assist Young People with multiple support needs to firstly access allocated program housing and at transition access ongoing accommodation options, particularly supported accommodation, family reconciliation, private rental, shared housing and social or transitional housing in accordance with the case plan.
• Use a sustaining tenancies practice approach to assist young people to establish a new tenancy, settle well into new housing, intervene/prevent ongoing tenancy issues, manage a tenancy long term, and as required, end a tenancy on the best positive note.
• Facilitate access to relevant specialist support services, including health, mental health, AOD and therapeutic interventions and where appropriate, external services in accordance with the case plan.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of MCM’s programs and relevant external service providers to ensure an integrated service response to people.

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