Job Location: Main Street Bridgeport - Bridgeport, CT 06606
Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: 2 Year Degree
Salary Range: $22.00 - $22.00 Hourly
Job Shift: First Shift
Job Category: Case ManagementProgram: START
Position: Case Manager 2
Location: Bridgeport
Salary: $22.00/hour
Schedule: Full time, 40 hours, 1st shift, Monday-Friday
The Start Program is a nationally recognized program that works with homeless and unstably-housed youth, age 18-24, located throughout the state of CT through an innovating service delivery model that combines short-term rental assistance with intensive, community-based case management services targeted towards housing stabilization. Through a lens of trauma-informed care and positive youth development, the program partners with young adult participants to identify goals and resources that help them to exit homelessness and achieve long-term stability.
The Case Manager 2 is responsible for providing home- and community-based case management services to homeless young adults located throughout the state. Responsibilities include;
Working within our Young Adult Services, the Case Manager 2 works with the START program staff to provide services to stabilize and reunite families experiencing complex issues such as substance use, behavioral health matters, and homelessness.
If selected for employment with The Connection, newly hired employees will be required to attend a two (2) day mandatory New Hire Orientation at our Roscommon office located in Middletown.
The Connection is a statewide human services and community development agency that provides unique solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental illness, substance use, improving child welfare and community justice rehabilitation. For additional information, visit www.theconnectioninc.org.
For more than 50 years, The Connection statewide community-based human services agency has partnered with individuals and their families to provide the needed resources to improve their lives. We help more than 8,000 people annually find solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental illness, substance use, and community justice rehabilitation.
The Connection maintains corporate offices in Middletown, and delivers services at 65 residential and outpatient sites to residents in an extensive number of communities in Connecticut, including New Haven, Hartford, Middletown, Groton, Norwich, New London, Bridgeport, Danbury, Torrington, Waterbury and many others.
The Connection's Institute for Innovative Practice is a social enterprise committed to empowering organizations through training, professional development, and consultation. With a track record of training thousands across 400+ organizations as well as our own staff of nearly 500, the critical relationship between individual wellbeing and organizational health is the primary focus of its efforts.
As a socially conscious enterprise, the proceeds from our endeavors are reinvested directly into The Connection's programs, ensuring a continuous cycle of support and transformation.
