Housing Court Answers is HIRING!
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Housing Court Answers seeks a full time coordinator for its NYCHA Information Table. HCA, an independent nonprofit, provides non-lawyer assistance to people in Housing Court without lawyers from Information Tables in all 5 boroughs, and through a telephone hotline. The NYCHA Coordinator will be responsible to staff an information table at 250 Broadway Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 1pm to answer NYCHA tenants' questions about NYCHA rules, grievances, and termination of tenancy hearings. The coordinator will also refer tenants to legal and social services and rent arrears assistance when appropriate. Additionally, the NYCHA coordinator will spend time in the NYHCA parts in the city's Housing Courts and assist tenants who call our hotline.
The NYCHA coordinator will engage in ongoing advocacy with NYCHA to make the Authority's procedures easier to navigate for tenants and to improve access to justice for tenants facing eviction.
The NYCHA coordinator will coordinate advocacy campaigns around the following issues:
- Streamlined procedures for getting repairs for NYCHA tenants through Housing Court
- Fairer treatment of tenants at 250 Broadway termination proceedings
- Better treatment of tenants in nonpayment proceedings in the courts' NYCHA parts
- Greater legal representation of NYCHA tenants in eviction proceedings.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the provision of services at the information table in the administrative hearing office at 250 Broadway
- Work with HCA staff and local advocates on advocacy campaigns to further the rights of NYCHA tenants
- Develop workshops and trainings on NYCHA procedures and related issues for advocates and social service providers across the city
- Develop information sheets and other tools for educating unrepresented litigants on their rights and NYCHA procedures
- Plan monitoring and advocacy projects
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice
- Demonstrated ability to work with the public in a stressful and/or chaotic setting
- Demonstrated knowledge of housing, tenants' rights, and NYCHA
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Spanish ability a plus
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Salary currently $45,000 plus health insurance and paid vacation, although salary and benefits subject to Collective Bargaining process.
To apply: email cover letter and resume to info@hcanswers.org with NYCHA Coordinator in the subject line.
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The Academy of Medical and Public Health Services is HIRING!
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The Academy of Medical & Public Health Services (AMPHS) is a not-for-profit health service organization based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with a triple aim to identify barriers to health and wellness in underserved immigrant communities; coordinate truly needed primary care with social assistance; and deliver care with dignity and empathy to marginalized New Yorkers.
They are looking to hire Part-time positions for the following areas:
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Program Coordinator
AMPHS seeks a passionate and skilled professional to join the operations team. The Program Coordinator plays a key leadership role in integrating clinical and social services and ensuring the smooth coordination of all Community Health Project programming activities among AMPHS staff and partners. The ideal candidate is a seasoned program manager and exceptional communicator, relationship manager, trainer and coach. He or she will identify and contribute to the development and execution of innovative solutions to grow program capacity and expand outreach within vulnerable immigrant populations. The Program Coordinator reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer. For more information, please click here.
Program Assistant
The Program Assistant is responsible for assisting in the implementation and administration of the health screening, education, and training programs at the Academy of Medical and Public Health Services. Responsibilities include event coordination, outreach, client communication, and basic reception and clerical duties. The candidate will work directly with Executive Management staff to ensure that the organization runs smoothly and efficiently. For more information, please click here.
Social Worker
The Social Worker is responsible for providing high-level oversight over the organization's culturally-sensitive social service counseling program and presiding over the organization's weekly Saturday health clinics. AMPHS' unique, integrated clinical-social service program enables community members to receive direct social service counseling to connect them to theneeded care immediately following each clinical encounter. The Social Worker is responsible for managing client cases and assisting community members in navigating resources in coordination with recommendations from the clinical team. The Social Worker is also responsible for establishing and maintaining a community referral network, facilitating workshops and overseeing a team of community health workers. For more information, please click here.
Community Health Worker
The community health worker (CHW) is responsible for providing culturally-sensitive health navigation services to help patients and their families navigate and access community services and resources within the healthcare system, while guiding them to adopt healthy behaviors. CHWs will work primarily with immigrant families in Sunset Park, many who have limited access to healthcare. The CHW supports AMPHS clinicians, the supervising social worker and program coordinator by providing an integrated system of support services that promotes and maintains healthy behaviors and addresses the social determinants of health affecting the local community. Primary function areas include social service counseling, advocating for individuals and community health needs, and facilitating community outreach workshops.
Nurse Practitioner
The Academy of Medical & Public Health Services offers free weekly Saturdayhealth clinics for low-income, uninsured community members in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Screening participants often lack health insurance or experience language barriers that prevent them from accessing available health resources; for many, it is their first time receiving a health assessment in many years. During the clinic, AMPHS clinicians perform health screenings while partner healthcare agencies offer free specialty services, such as HIV and Hepatitis C testing, mammograms, and flu shots. AMPHS may also offer specialty theme-based services each month. At the beginning of the screening, AMPHS volunteers distribute health surveys through which it collects health data used to analyze community health trends and develop education programs.
The Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for presiding over AMPHS clinics to conduct basic and specialty screenings, provide long-term medical counseling, and facilitate health education workshops. The NP will not be making diagnoses, but will identify risk factors and lifestyle changes that the community member should pursue, as well as follow-up treatment. He or she will then work collaboratively with the Social Assistance team to connect community members to the relevant services based on treatment recommendations from the clinical encounter. The ideal candidate is passionate about working with immigrant communities and has significant experience working with low-income populations who have had little or no access to care. For more information, please click here.
Chinese/Spanish Translator
The Academy of Medical & Public Health Services (AMPHS) works with a predominantly Latino and Chinese community in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, bringing them accessible healthcare through free health screenings and education workshops. At the beginning of each screening, AMPHS staff collects demographic data from each participating community member to conduct analytical research on predominant health trends in the local community. AMPHS also holds public health workshops that educate community members in health access, disease management and prevention, nutrition and wellness. They are seeking fluent or highly proficient Spanish, Cantonese and/or Mandarin speakers to interpret for AMPHS constituents during open clinics and events.
Translators will also have the opportunity to engage in other community fieldwork projects that include conducting interviews and focus groups and community outreach alongside our community engagement team. Additionally, they will be responsible for assisting with other administrative projects, such as recording Chinese/Spanish segments for educational videos, translating educational literature, brochures, flyers, and other outreach material, and writing Chinese/Spanish blog posts for our online news portal.
AMPHS clinics take place Saturdays on a weekly basis; workshops take place on weekends and select weekdays. Translators will receive training in medical terminology, patient history-taking, and HIPAA prior to engaging in a service role. For more information, please click here.
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