Community Safety and Overdose Response Specialist - Belltown

Description

Title: Community Safety and Overdose Response Specialist

Location: REACH Belltown

Salary Range: $78,500-$84,500

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm

Working at Evergreen Treatment Services makes a big difference in our community!

• ETS has been working to transform the lives of individuals and their communities through innovative and effective addiction and social services in Western Washington for over 50 years. Learn more about our mission and values.
• Change begins within. We strive to foster and sustain a diverse and inclusive community within our organization. Find out how we are working to achieve racial equity, health equity, and community justice.
• Our Clinic Services and REACH teams bring critical professional expertise and heartfelt compassion to the work they do every day to serve our most vulnerable community members. Check out the compelling stories told by our patients, clients, and staff members that provide more information and a clear picture regarding our organization’s essential work. 

REACH Mission and Values 

The REACH Program of Evergreen Treatment Services works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. The REACH mission is to foster community health and safety through outreach, relationship, healing interventions and systems advocacy for people who use drugs. REACH provides outreach-based-care coordination, multidisciplinary clinical services, and supports to access and maintain housing. All services are based in principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving through stages of change in their lives. 

REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals’ lives. We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren’t just surviving, but able to thrive.

REACH offers an array of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily accessible treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions. 

The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele. REACH values diversity of lived experience, is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor. People who have been impacted by the criminal legal system are encouraged to apply. 

This dynamic position plays an important role in helping ETS accomplish our mission!

Job Summary:

• The REACH Community Safety and Overdose Response Specialist will support our Integrated Care Milieu Team by providing focused and compassionate overdose response and fatality prevention by building deeper relationships with people who are actively using drugs in and around our drop-in spaces and intentionally integrating harm reduction best practices into our milieu work. 
• As part of the Milieu Team, the Community Safety and Overdose Response Specialist will support the creation and daily maintenance of a warm, inviting environment in our drop-in/milieu space for the purpose of engaging the clients REACH serves. This position helps to set a tone of hospitality and models respectful engagement and clear boundary setting that creates an opportunity for healing-focused experiences for people who use drugs. This position fosters relationships and community building with individuals who have experienced marginalization associated with chronic homelessness and systemic oppression. 
• Client-centered services are provided from a harm reduction perspective, utilizing motivational interviewing and trauma informed care approaches. This position requires exceptional ability to consistently set limits in a respectful manner to ensure the milieu environment remains safe and welcoming for all. It requires excellent awareness of interpersonal interactions and the ability to manage client flow in and around the REACH office space. 
• De-escalation skills and the ability