CAHP Coordinator - Family

• JOB TITLE:** CAHP (Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement) Coordinator - Family
• JOB TYPE:** Full-Time, At-Will, Salaried Position
• SALARY:** $65,000-$75,000
  
  

SUMMARY:Coordinated Entry, locally referred to as Coordinated Assessment and Housing Placement (CAHP), is the federally mandated process through which the District of Columbia Continuum of Care (CoC) identifies households experiencing homelessness and connects them with available housing resources. The CAHP Coordinator is responsible for implementing the Districts CAHP system in accordance with guidelines established by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the local CoC. The CAHP Coordinator will support the CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) with crafting CAHP related policies, components of special projects, data and reporting for their specific subsystem, along with participating in policy meetings. The CAHP Coordinator will lead maintenance of manuals and policy documents, directly implement matching processes in their subsystem, and will be responsible for developing curriculum for CAHP-specific trainings.

Policy

Specific Duties and Responsibilities of the Position:

• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to update subsystem specific matching policies at least annually, including obtaining feedback on policies, evaluating CAHP system performance, and presenting recommended changes;
• Leads updating and maintaining CAHP system manuals;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to support, participate in or lead relevant community and policy meetings
  
  

Matching

• Complete all pre-work for CAHP related matching processes and/or meetings, including but not limited to creating pre-check forms, By Name Lists, reviewing and approving case conferencing requests, creating match meeting agendas, confirming housing vacancies;
• Facilitate offline referral processes and/or meetings to identify referrals to available housing resources;
• Complete all post work for CAHP related matching processes and/or meetings, including but not limited to recording matches in HMIS, updating internal and external trackers with match information, sharing match information with community providers;
• Conduct other offline care coordination activities with service providers and/or other agencies to help connect households experiencing homelessness to services and prepare for connection to housing supports
  
  

Special Projects

• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) on components of general CAHP team projects and subsystem specific projects;
• Leads developing curriculum for CAHP-specific trainings;
• Leads orientation meetings to orient new agencies that are joining CAHP
  
  

Data And Reporting

• Leads ongoing subsystem specific data collection, analyze subsystem specific data, and present data to the community;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to report on performance of their specific subsystem;
• Works with CAHP Administrator (Youth and Family) to ensure high data quality for CAHP-specific data elements
  
  

Other

• Attend meetings that are led by our partner agencies
• Other duties as assigned as deemed appropriate