Position:Yeha:wi Treatment Navigator
Position: Yeha:wi Treatment Navigator
Reports to: Chief Operations Officer
Hours: Full-Time
Salary: $27/hour
JOB SUMMARY
Mother Nation is an Indigenous-led non-profit organization offering culturally informed healing services, mobile advocacy, mentorship, and support to unsheltered relatives and MMIW families. Our services celebrate and inspire the success of Native American women and families with custom-designed specialized services based on traditional practices, teachings, and values built on each relative’s ancestral strength.
Our priority is to ensure healing and wellness with cultural resilience, offering quality service to change the dynamics of Native women and families from the impacts of historical and intergenerational trauma. Primary services are to stop the violence against Native women through culturally informed healing services, mobile advocacy, and support for unsheltered relatives.
The successful candidate will be provided with excellent training opportunities, traditional teachings, career advancement, ceremonial leave, and a comprehensive health benefits package.
All Yeha:wi Team members provide culturally based and survivor-centered mobile advocacy to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and commercial sexual exploitation.
The Yeha:wi Treatment Navigator supports relatives seeking treatment for substance use disorders (SUDS) in navigation with referrals to local Tribal and non-profit agencies. This position will work directly with Mother Nation Spirit Journey Healing Village in referrals, the Waatunwan Street Outreach team, and the Cultural Response Team.
The Yeha:wi Treatment Navigator also collaborates with Mother Nation programming, first responders, schools, and other community partners to provide referral and transition services to relatives.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
- Facilitates appointments at outpatient clinics, serves as a resource and coach for relatives, and advocates for navigation to recovery services.
- Conduct program intake, program entry, and program exit.
- Maintain accurate participant files with timely data collection and reporting.
- Provide culturally based survivor-centered advocacy, safety planning, identify community resources, information, and referrals to treatment, intensive outpatient services and/or detox.
- Work with King County legal advocates to guide survivors through the criminal justice system and develop ongoing referral relationships with service systems.
- Join the Mother Nation Waantuwan Street Outreach team periodically conducting street outreach seeking unsheltered relatives in need of service to treatment.
- Refer participant to Mother Nation Cultural Services Team, Yeha: there will be healing circles, a gathering of women’s sweats, access to traditional healers, and other spiritual needs as identified by survivors.
- Participate in all Mother Nation Staff Talking Circles, culturally based training, and Staff community presentations as required.
- Work weekly at Spirit Journey House to support the Case Manager in the resident’s AA program advocacy needs.
- Prepare check requests with supporting documentation following Mother Nation policy and procedures, with support by Yeha:wi Program Assistant.
- Collaborate with sister agencies in co-advocating the needs of relatives. Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Possess State Certification of 20 to 30 hours of domestic violence advocacy, sexual assault core advocacy, and commercial sexual exploitation advocacy preferred.
- Two years of direct experience working with survivors of multi-abuse trauma in Native American communities.
- Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or equivalent experience in working with a Native American population of survivors of multi-abuse trauma.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Demonstrated health and wellness lifestyle to withstand the emotional and physical challenges to offer a trauma-informed work environment for staff and participants.
- Knowledge of community and cultural healing services or traditional practices in the Indigenous community.
- Have the confidence to handle emergency crises.
- Skills in the Microsoft Office Word Suite.
- Strong interpersonal skills and excellent writing skills.
- A vehicle with a valid WSDL and insurance is required; the candidate must be able to travel independently between multiple work sites within a day.
- Sensitive to the cultural integrity of Mother Nation and participants. In full agreement and aligns with Mother Nation’s core values, mission, vision, and beliefs.
- Willingness to work independently and as a team member.
- Pass a background check.
Apply with resume and cover letter:
Email: HR@mothernation.org Subject line: Yeha:wi Treatment Navigator
OR Send applications to:
801 23rd Ave S, Suite A
Seattle, WA 98144
Attn: Chief Executive Officer