CCEH seeks an experienced and committed professional to oversee member and program services, training and technical assistance at CCEH. The Manager of Technical Assistance and Program Services works closely with the CCEH management team and executive director as CCEH leads the recalibration of Connecticut’s homeless crisis response system to a housing based network of local and statewide programs.
The position is best served by an individual with a Bachelor’s degree and no less than 4 years demonstrated experience providing services to homeless or extremely low income individuals and families in a program setting. A strong familiarity with emergency shelter and transitional housing systems is a plus. Excellent oral and written communications skills are required, as are highly developed organizational skills. Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with service providers, government officials, and community leaders. Masters Degree in related field plus no less than one year direct service experience as above also acceptable.
Competitive Salary and Benefits
Reports to Executive Director
Interested Candidates should submit resume and cover letter by February 28, 2012 via email to:
Sorimar Vazquez
Executive Assistant
svazquez@cceh.org
No calls please
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Protect the homeless crisis response system. Maintain funding for the Housing/Homeless Services Line item in the Department of Social Services Budget. The Department of Social Services has proposed cuts to the Children in Shelters program (which provides child care assistance to families attempting to get out of shelter); and cuts to Connecticut’s Homelessness Management Information System, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-mandated system which collects data from state funded shelters, transitional and permanent support housing. This line also includes operating funds for homeless and domestic violence shelters, residences for persons with AIDS, rental assistance, security deposit guarantees, and homelessness prevention interventions.
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Expand the number of state-funded rental assistance certificates. Housing subsidies are the single most effective intervention to prevent and end family homelessness. Recent studies show that half of federal subsidies go to elderly and disabled people, thereby exacerbating the need for vouchers for homeless, low-income and working families. The rental assistance program (RAP) is only serving approximately 2,776 Connecticut households, and about 2,000 more are on the waiting list which is closed.
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Invest in new supportive housing and save state dollars. Supportive housing is a proven, cost-effective solution to long term homelessness that matches supportive services with affordable housing. Investing state dollars in supportive housing for frequent users of expensive state services reduces the number of people who rely on more costly emergency and crisis services and saves money.
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Preserve and revitalize the state public housing portfolio. It is critical to preserve and upgrade our current affordable housing infrastructure and to build new affordable housing units for elderly, disabled and very low-income families. Governor Malloy’s proposal would provide $30 million in bond funds and $1.5 million in project-based rental assistance per year over ten years to transform their current portfolio, affecting potentially more than 14,000 public housing units. This is especially critical at a time when Congress is proposing reducing federal housing resources.
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Increase economic security among Connecticut’s poorest residents by:
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Extending cash assistance time limits to allow parents to complete job training and education programs.
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Increasing investments in the youth employment program to help to build a workforce pipeline, and preventing housing crises and homelessness among youth, a growing sector.
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Building employability of low-skill adults through paid work experience combined with education, training, transportation and child care assistance.
The Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness seeks to prevent and end homelessness in Connecticut. For more information, contact Lisa P. Sementilli, Deputy Director.
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CCEH welcomes Pam Ralston to our team. Pam joins CCEH through a partnership with the Continuum of Care in Greater Stamford, as Project Coordinator for the Greater Stamford area Continuum of Care. She comes from a background in mental health and is also an employee of the Southwest Regional Mental Health Board, and does review and evaluation on community mental health services, which are funded by the State of Connecticut.
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More than 390,000 calls were made to United Way’s 2-1-1 assistance line last year. Housing and shelter were the number one reason people called, including almost 52,000 requests for help from people searching for a place to live.
Families, children and individuals sleeping in Connecticut’s homeless shelters Wednesday night will be the focus of CT Counts 2012, the annual Point-In-Time Count. Scheduled to take place Wednesday January 25th, this yearly “census” of homelessness is a tally of homeless people on one night and forms a profile of what is usually an invisible population.
High unemployment and a lack of affordable housing is expected to be a key factor in what experts expect will show an emergency shelter system that is stretched beyond its reasonable limits. Most concerning, according to Carol Walter, Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, the organization that conducts and analyzes the count, is the increasing number of young children sleeping in Connecticut shelter and transitional housing programs.
But Walter adds that there is plenty of hope for reversing this trend, despite rising numbers.
“We can end homelessness in our state in this decade” she said. “We know how to target housing and just the right services to families and individuals to either prevent their becoming homeless or assure that if they do become homeless they return quickly to stable housing.” Walter added, “We can prevent the devastating consequences that the experience of homelessness has in the lives of young children. We can do it in a humane, effective and cost efficient manner which will ultimately save taxpayers money.”
Effective programs include rental assistance, eviction and foreclosure prevention, security deposit guarantees, and supportive housing. Supportive housing is permanent, affordable and independent rental housing for individuals and families who have experienced long term homelessness.
The Point-in-Time Count is organized by the CT Coalition to End Homelessness, with the help of service providers within the State’s seven Continuum of Care. The count is funded by: the CT Department of Economic and Community Development, the CT Housing Finance Authority, the Melville Charitable Trust, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the Community Fund of Greater New Haven, the CT Office of Policy and Management, and the CT Departments of Social Services, Children and Families, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Department of Corrections and Court Support Services Division of the Judicial Branch.
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