The Family Support Center is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. The Family Support Center does not discriminate against any person on the basis of any legally protected status including, but not limited to: age, citizenship, color, disability, health condition, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
To apply for a position, please email your professional resume, cover letter, and contact information for three professional references to hiring@fscss.org or fax documents to 360-943-1139 ATTN: Amara Saint Germain with the position title in the subject line. You can also mail your application packet to Family Support Center of South Sound - 3545 7th Ave SW Suite 200, Olympia WA 98502. No phone calls please.
Housing Stability Crisis Peer Counselor: The Housing Stability Crisis Peer Counselor will draw from lived experience to work alongside families with children who have serious mental health and/or substance use disorders who are experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness. The Crisis Peer Counselor must have a good understanding of best practices including housing first, harm reduction, trauma informed care, and the protective factors framework. The Crisis Peer counselor will work outside of normal business hours with the goal to support people in crisis outside of the 9-5 working hours. This will be done through direct client engagement, facilitating community activities that help build positive social connections, and connection to other agency and community programs. This role requires maintaining strong boundaries while building supportive rapport and peer support. The Crisis Peer Counselor will work in collaboration with other Housing First staff and the broader housing team at Family Support Center to ensure households have and maintain stable housing. To view full job description, click here.
Domestic Violence Housing Case Manager: The Domestic Violence Housing Case Manager works directly with survivors experiencing homelessness, utilizing a housing first model, to support households in accessing permanent housing as fast as possible. This may include survivors staying in area shelters, attempting to flee violence, and/or having recently fled violence. This position supports households in accessing rapid re-housing assistance. All services are survivor driven, following a trauma informed and harm reduction approach. To view full job description, click here.
Pear Blossom Place On-Call Support Staff: Pear Blossom Place is Thurston County’s only 24/7 shelter for families experiencing
homelessness, and provides at least 36 parents and children safety, stability, and warmth every night of the year. Pear Blossom Place operates from a low barrier and harm reduction model, working from a strengths based perspective in supporting families in accessing permanent housing. Staff at Pear Blossom Place are critical to supporting families in achieving their goals, ensuring shelter is safe and clean, mitigating conflicts and challenges between guests, and for answering the 24-hour Housing and Shelter Line for shelter and housing resources. This position is an on-call role, and may include overnight and weekend shifts, and is an awake position. To view full job description, click here.
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