Chauvin Resource Development

04/23/2023

We are hiring!

We believe that everyone has the right to safe, secure housing. While we continue to work on permanent solutions to the housing crisis in HRM, Welcome Housing and Adsum for Women & Children are recruiting support staff to provide direct services and support to individuals and couples staying in a new shelter model. This temporary shelter, which will operate in a hotel setting from May 2023, will give residents access to health care and client services. There will be a clinic onsite and supports for continuing care, wellness and mental health.

In order to staff the shelter and support residents, we are recruiting immediately for 8- and 12- hour shifts, 7 days a week. All shifts will be double staffed.
We are offering a Living Wage and benefits. We prioritize diversity and inclusion considerations in hiring and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and all genders to apply. We are currently recruiting for the following position:
Title: Support Worker
Located at: 101 Wyse Rd Dartmouth, NS
Hours of work: Full Time & Part Time Positions. Shift rotations include 7am-3pm, 8am-8pm, 3pm-11pm, 4pm-8pm, 8pm-8am, & 11pm-7am.
Rate of pay: $25.00 per hour.

Position Scope
Under the day-to-day supervision of the Floor Supervisor, the Support Worker is responsible for assisting clients staying at the shelter and assisting in the day-to-day operations of the shelter as needed. These include, but are not limited to providing information, referrals, advocacy, goal planning, safety planning and providing crisis intervention support as needed. The Support Worker utilizes a social justice perspective and conducts oneself in ways that support a client-centered, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, non-judgmental shelter environment. The ideal candidate is comfortable working with and responding to people experiencing crisis, and those who may be using substances. They are familiar with harm reduction service principles and can implement these when supporting clients. The Support Worker demonstrates awareness of personal boundaries and can communicate these effectively.

Typical Duties
o Provides information, referrals, support to those persons residing at the emergency shelter
o Ensures that all interactions with clients are carried out in a safe, dignified, and unobtrusive manner
o Maintains client confidentiality and privacy
o Offers support and assists in making community referrals
o Assists clients in securing financial services
o Maintains accurate client records and is responsible for updating client information including an electronic database system
o Provides regular reports and communicates pertinent information to oncoming staff during shift change
o Strives to maintain the safety of the communal environment and protect the rights of all clients
o Addresses and responds to crisis situations as they arise (including notifying on-call if needed)
Qualifications:
o Education and/or experience in health education/promotion, human services, social work, or related field.
o Working knowledge of Housing First approaches, the social determinants of health, and services available within the community that impact an individual’s ability and/or opportunity to move beyond personal and systemic barriers.
o Knowledge of issues and resources in the community related to homelessness, poverty, harm reduction, mental health and addiction issues, community development and capacity building.
o Excellent problem-solving skills and understanding of the barriers that deter at-risk individuals from obtaining and maintaining safe and affordable housing.
o Strong team player and ability to work independently.
o Good organizational, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
o Computer skills and report writing ability required.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We encourage job applicants from equity seeking groups to self-identify in their cover letter.
We thank you for your interest in employment. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
To apply, please email [email protected] OR [email protected]

02/17/2022

11/25/2021

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11/02/2021

10/26/2021

Lots of Board of Directors are talking about burnout. Organizations are afraid they are putting too much work on their Boards and driving volunteers away. While I agree the Board burnout is a problem, there are many more causes of burnout beyond too much work. If this is a problem for your Board, look beyond workload to confirm the right cause. You can't start to address a problem until you have identified it correctly.

08/16/2021

Has your organization got the Twisties?

Having worked in the Sport and Recreation field for most of my life, I know that there is so much we can learn from sport. I believe Simone Biles, the US Olympic gymnast, gave us a new lesson that we need to think about and heed.

She has introduced us to the term and phenomena of ‘twisties.’ While well known in the gymnastics community the term twisties is not one that many people outside the sport are familiar with. Twisties have been described as a situation when gymnasts lose their sense of orientation while doing twists and gravity-defying mid-air tumbles (Reuters, August 3, 2021). Obviously a dangerous situation.

This got me thinking; I wonder where else in life we encounter a similar phenomenon? Where we get some form of the twisties. As I asked myself this question, I thought about what happens when our actions as an organization become disconnected from our Mission, Vision, and Values.

I am sure we have all seen a time when our organization is juggling multiple balls in the air, and we are scrambling just to keep them from falling to the floor and rolling away. Do this, go there, move, make that happen, chase this funding, get more partners. Our focus becomes the fastest and easiest route to move forward. Yet when we make these choices are they the best ways to move forward? Are they consistent with who we are and where we want to go?

Sometimes the decisions we have made, and the actions we have taken make sense. We have logical reasons for what we have done, and we even have evidence to support it. But, sometimes, those decisions and actions are not consistent with who we want to be and where we are going. As we keep moving, we were left with this nagging feeling that something is wrong. In the middle of our tumbling, we have lost our orientation. We have the twisties, and if we don’t do something, the organization will land badly and be left damaged when it counts.

I think we need to be on the watch for these moments. For when we get the twisties and end up making poor choices. When we become so busy doing that we lose sight of our purpose and who we are. Actions taken in the middle of the twisties lead to poor outcomes, erode our credibility, damage our cohesiveness as a team, and lead to confusion within and outside the organization.

We need to have the courage of Simone Biles when we know we are in this situation and stop, breathe, get help, and then re-engage.

Getting the twisties is not a weakness. Not addressing it when it happens is dangerous and, other than in an urgent crisis, poor governance. We know better, and we now have a brave example to follow.

08/11/2021

If you are struggling with strategic planning, or have some great tips and tricks to share, Kimberly and I would love for you to join us.

08/02/2021

Whether in our personal or professional lives it is important to remember this. If you are on the wrong path it will not get better until you stop and turn around.

How much time, goodwill, and other resources have Boards of Directors wasted when they have not been prepared to stay stop and head in a different direction?

07/28/2021

I think many of us are seeing and reading the stories of businesses struggling to recruit employees as the pandemic recovery begins. Many opinions are being offered why this is, including poor wages, government wage subsidies, and lazy people.

I have found it very interesting to read commentary from these employees who have chosen not to return to their jobs. One thing has become apparent to me.

As business owners and community leaders, we need to adopt zero tolerance for abuse and violence directed at our employees. Everyone has the right to be unhappy with a product or a service, and they should bring that to our attention. They can be upset. However, there is a line where behaviour becomes abusive or violent, and we need to start holding people accountable.

Customers who abuse or threaten the physical, social, and mental safety of our employees (or other customers) should be removed and not allowed back.

If we are prepared to protect our employees from this type of violence, we will see more people willing to come to work for us. For those of us in the not-for-profit sector the same thing applies to our volunteer recruitment.