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Veterans Street Outreach Worker
The Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI) is focused on reducing veteran homelessness across Waterloo Region. Street outreach workers use a Housing First approach to support individuals experiencing homelessness in the Region, working collaboratively with the EVHI and existing street outreach teams. This work focuses on low threshold, direct and networked outreach to identify veterans who are street-involved, at risk of, or experiencing homelessness, and those who are living in encampments. Workers use low threshold approaches making minimal demands on program participants, with the goal of facilitating safety, well-being, engagement and ongoing connections to highly accessible community, social, health and housing services, including rental supplements and all program components of EVHI, shelter-adjacent and shelter services across Waterloo Region, the Cambridge MACS Drop-In and Sanguen mobile van and bus outreach.
Please note that full-time staff at Thrive work a 30-hour (4 Day) week, and that starting annual salaries for full-time Workers are $42,455; for Coordinators are $47,400; and for Managers are $53,900.
