Peer Advocate

Health Care for the Homeless is looking for a Peer Advocate to join our Housing Services team. As a Peer Advocate, youll be a trusted guide and support for individuals who have experienced homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use, or incarceration-helping them connect to services and maintain housing placements using a strengths-based, harm reduction approach.

What Youll Do:

• Build meaningful, recovery-oriented relationships with clients through home and community visits.
• Use your lived experience to model wellness and encourage service engagement.
• Support clients in accessing health care, housing, behavioral health, and entitlement programs.
• Provide hands-on coaching in life skills like budgeting, housekeeping, and shopping.
• Triage walk-in clients and connect them with appropriate services.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and contribute to client care plans.
• Maintain accurate, timely documentation in the electronic health record.

What You Bring:

• Personal experience with homelessness, substance use, mental illness, HIV, or incarceration (required).
• High school diploma or GED required; AA in Human Services preferred.
• One year of experience helping individuals connect to essential services.
• Knowledge of Baltimore City resources and a passion for harm reduction and housing-first approaches.
• Strong interpersonal skills, emotional resilience, and the ability to work with clients who may be ill, disabled, or emotionally distressed.
• Valid Maryland drivers license and access to a personal vehicle (required).

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a mission-driven team committed to racial equity, social justice, and community wellness.
• Work in a dynamic, people-first organization that centers compassion, authenticity, and hope.
• Receive training and support to grow in your advocacy and peer work.
• Help shape the future of housing and recovery services in Baltimore.

Read more about our clients and the people we serve here: https://www.hchmd.org/who-we-help

Join us in advancing health equity and delivering exceptional care to our communitys most underserved populations. Apply today to be a part of something bigger.

Health Care for the Homeless is an equal opportunity employer.

Notice to Applicants Health Care for the Homeless participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are required to complete the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form and provide documentation proving their identity and legal authorization to work in the United States. We use the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility in accordance with federal law.