Encampment Response Worker

Position Summary

The Encampment Response Workers will play a critical role in facilitating comprehensive care through relationship building, system navigation and case management, ensuring individuals receive assistance beyond initial interventions. The primary goal of this position is to develop trusting relationships with community members assisting to leave encampments for housing and increased safety and stability.

Encampment Response Workers provide direct, hands-on support to individuals who are sheltering outdoors or living in precarious housing situations and who may be struggling with mental health, addictions and other barriers to wellbeing. This position will meet people where they are at, regularly visiting encampments, shelters and public spaces to make connections and develop trust. 

Working collaboratively with Bylaw Enforcement, Regina Police Service, Regina Fire and Protective Services, the Saskatchewan Health Authority, t...