ANALYTICAL ● DECISIVE ● EMPATHETIC ● RESULTS-DRIVEN ● SUPPORTIVE
Our client is a growing, community-based organization that provides support for youth in the Region of Peel. They are a leading organization recognized for their commitment to providing youth with the resources and services to help them achieve independence and growth. The organization is looking for passionate people to join their vision and mission!
Are you passionate about accounting and supporting vulnerable youth?
The Pod Group is partnering with this amazing organization to place a resourceful, hands-on, and organized individual to fulfill the role of Manager, Youth Services.
WHY YOUR ROLE MATTERS 🔍
Reporting to the Director of Youth Services and Wellness, you will guide the work of a multidisciplinary team including mental health and addictions specialists and intensive case managers. You will manage all clinical services and intensive case management functions at the organization, including crisis response services, individual and group clinical interventions, housing stabilization supports, and youth-centered case management. You will work with the Director to implement and maintain integrated practice standards informed by Assertive Community Treatment, Housing First for Youth, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care principles.
You will drive effective service coordination for youth with complex needs across organizational service areas, including central intake, shelter, housing, prevention services, and community partnerships.
The Manager, Youth Services will lead, elevate, engage and deliver the innovative and highly effective supports based on the following:
Trauma-Informed Principles
Clinical Assessment and Treatment Planning
Relationship-Centered Approach
Strengths-Based & Anti-Oppressive Approach
Housing First and Harm Reduction Philosophy
Multidisciplinary and Coordinated Care
Cultural Sensitivity & Intersectionality
Ongoing Supervision and Reflective Practice
Advocacy and Systems Navigation
Aftercare Support and Evaluation
Working within a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and harm reduction framework, the Manager, Youth Services supports a continuum of intervention services that promote housing stability, wellness, mental health recovery, and long-term positive outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT 🎯
Lead integrated programs and services . Using Assertive Community Treatment, Housing First for Youth, and Harm Reduction principles and best practices, you will develop and manage the delivery of integrated and coordinated supports for youth (ages 16-24) receiving services from the organization. Overseeing a team of mental health and addictions specialists and intensive case managers, you will shape and evolve the team's vision, philosophy, and objectives while managing projects that align internal operations with the evolving landscape of wraparound support for youth experiencing homelessness. Programs in this portfolio include the following:
Clinical interventions – You will oversee the delivery of rapid crisis response, mental health and addictions assessments, individual and group counselling, treatment planning, and clinical consultation across all organizational sites.
Intensive Case Management – Using the Assertive Community Treatment model, you will oversee the delivery of youth-driven intensive case management services based on Housing First for Youth principles, including assessment, care planning, housing stabilization, systems navigation, advocacy, safety planning, and service coordination.
Service Integration and Care Coordination - You will ensure effective integration between clinical services, shelter services, housing supports, prevention services, and community partners to facilitate seamless service delivery and positive youth outcomes.
Ongoing Quality Improvement - You will continuously identify and address barriers to service access while monitoring program effectiveness and implementing…