Crisis Services Advocate – Nights and Weekends **Dubuque Community Y** 2 Positions ID: 323693 Posted On 01/03/2025 **Job Overview** Dubuque Y Crisis Services offers round the clock 24/7 365 services to meet the various safety needs of survivors of violence. Our Crisis Line, Emergency Shelter and Extended Stay services provide immediate and critical interventions, with our overall goal to increase survivor safety. Our service provision is built around providing quality, client centered, trauma informed services that promote self-sufficiency and increase successful outcomes for survivor’s unique, individualized needs. DYCS prioritizes women and children experiencing various types of gender based violence such as Domestic Violence / Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking and Other Violent Crimes. The essential function of each Crisis Services Advocate is to actively engage in fostering and maintaining optimum service provision by cultivating a safe, positive living environment to all to DYCS program participants. Crisis Services Advocates provide coverage during early evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. This position reports directly to the Crisis Services Coordinator. **Skills & Abilities** Advocates must demonstrate the ability to execute the following: + Must be highly dependable and possess the ability to work effectively with minimal supervision. + Exhibit a strong skill set in being able to work well under pressure, utilize sound judgment and decision making skills, be courteous and helpful and maintain confidentiality requirements. + Hold appropriate boundaries while implementing services and understand importance of empowering clients while providing a strong and stable support system. + Able to handle difficult situations with professionalism and maturity and elevate situations that need guidance. + Must have strong written and oral communication skills, as well as intermediate computer skills. + Can work in an environment that requires the ability to transfer/ carry cleaning and bedding supplies up & down stairs and packages weighing at least 25 pounds. + Ability to pass state, federal, and child abuse background checks and able to work in the United States. **All advocates receive a free membership to the Dubuque YMCA!** **Part-time hours. Great for Social Work, Psychology, and Criminal Justice Students!** Primary Contact 1691788896726 Michelle Ernst Crisis Services Director, 563-556-1100 Phone Phone Phone Fax mernst@dubuquey.org Email True True False **Job Details** Categories Human and Social Services Location Dubuque, IA Job Type Employee Full/Part Part Time Pay/Salary $14.50- $15.00/hr **Qualifications** Education High School/GED Company ID 973 Job REQ # 323693 \# Positions 2 Start Date 20250103 End Date 20250331 Featured Job TH Ad 0 TH Comments **Similar Jobs** HCBS Employment Services-Job Coach Hills & Dales Dietary Assistant - Cook - 1st and 2nd shift flex Hills & Dales Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Hillcrest Family Services Program Manager- Community Support Services Hillcrest Family Services Direct Support Professional – SCL – PART TIME Hills & Dales **Share this Job** Dubuque Community Y **About the Company** **Learn, Grow and Thrive with a Career at the Y** Imagine going to work knowing that what you do each day positively affects the lives of the people in your community. Working at the Y, you’ll discover more than a job—you’ll enjoy a career with a future and the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of those around you. In more than 10,000 communities nationwide, our staff members—of all ages and from diverse back–grounds and life experiences—enjoy the personal satisfaction that comes from nurturing the potential of youth and teens, improving the nation’s health and well-being and providing support to our neighbors. The Y is, and always will be, dedicated to building healthy, confident, connected and secure children, adult, families and communities. Everyday our impact is felt when an individual makes a healthy choice, when a mentor inspires a child and when a community comes together for the common good. With a areas of impact including **YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, HEALTHY LIVING, AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY,** strengthening communities is our cause. At the Y, we believe that lasting personal and social change happens when we all work together. Every day we work side-by-side with our neighbors to make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to be healthy, confident, connected and secure.