Family Housing Navigator

Family Housing Navigator

Warren City Schools seeks a compassionate, organized, and collaborative Family Housing Navigator to support families experiencing homelessness in Trumbull County and student parents enrolled in the district's GRADS program. This position will work closely with district staff, homeless shelters, and community partners to promote housing stability, ensure continuity of school attendance, and coordinate comprehensive supports that remove barriers to student success. The Family Housing Navigator serves as a critical liaison between families, schools, and housing systems to help families access safe, decent, and affordable housing while supporting educational stability and well-being for students.

The Family Housing Navigator will:

• Serve families experiencing homelessness and unaccompanied youth identified under the McKinney-Vento Act, as well as student parents enrolled in the GRADS program.
• Collaborate with counselors, administrators, social workers, school-community liaisons, and other district staff to support student attendance, engagement, and family stability.
• Provide intensive care coordination to connect families with school-based and community-based services.
• Participate in weekly McKinney-Vento partnership meetings and other interagency meetings to ensure alignment of services and timely referrals.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of family and student needs, including housing, psychosocial, educational, childcare, health, and mental health needs.
• Develop individualized service plans and housing stabilization plans in collaboration with families and partners.
• Assist families in navigating housing options and applications, including emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, public housing, and rental assistance programs.
• Advocate on behalf of families with landlords, housing providers, and agencies to secure safe, decent, and affordable housing.
• Support continuity of school enrollment and attendance during periods of homelessness and housing transition in accordance with McKinney-Vento requirements.
• Provide targeted support to student parents in the GRADS program, including coordination of childcare, parenting resources, and academic supports.
• Respond to urgent housing or family crises and coordinate emergency services as needed.
• Facilitate access to transportation and other logistical supports that remove barriers to school attendance and service engagement.
• Build trusting relationships with families using trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and strengths-based practices.
• Serve as a liaison between families, shelters, housing providers, and the school district to ensure clear communication and coordinated service delivery.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential documentation of services, referrals, and outcomes in accordance with district, state, and federal requirements.
• Collect data and assist with reporting for program evaluation, grants, and compliance purposes.
• Participate in professional development and trainings related to homelessness, housing systems, youth and family services, and trauma-informed care.
• Provide input to district leadership on policies, procedures, and practices impacting homeless and highly mobile students.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support the mission and goals of Warren City Schools.
• Abide by the rules, regulations, policies, and procedures of the Warren City School District Board of Education.