About The Link: Youth and Family Supports

For more than90 years, The Link has helped youth and families on a journey to healing, hope,and better lives. The organization is dedicated to walking alongside children,youth, and families as an inclusive community, strengthening and empowering asense of being, pride, and purpose. With over 15 diverse programs, The Link hasa community of caring staff that work together to provide support through a24-hour crisis line, youth resource centers, emergency shelters, mobile crisisteams, specialized foster care, healing homes, job readiness supports, andSkills4Life. With a solid foundation within the community and a focus onconnection, unity, and compassion, the organization provides a vital link foryouth and families in the province of Manitoba.

Position Summary

The Home Ally is a front-line family-centred role within Home Fire, aFamily Preservation program designed through a First Nations lens to strengthenfamilies and support children to remain safely at home whenever possible.Reporting to the Family Preservation Manager, the Home Ally works as part ofthe Home Fire Family Support Team to provide practical, culturally responsive,trauma-informed, and strengths-based support to caregivers and families.

This position plays a central role in supporting families to createsafe, organized, functional, and sustainable home environments that promotefamily wellness, stability, autonomy, and preservation. The Home Ally assistscaregivers to identify household strengths and barriers, develop practicalplans, establish routines, improve organization, and access supports thatenhance daily family functioning.

Working collaboratively with families, community resources,



andinterdisciplinary team members, the Home Ally provides hands-on coaching,modelling, encouragement, and follow-up support. The role requires soundjudgement, cultural humility, respectful engagement, strong boundaries,accurate documentation, and a commitment to meaningful outcomes for children,youth, caregivers, and families receiving services.

Reporting Relationships and Program Context

The Home Ally reports to the Family Preservation Manager and workscollaboratively with Home Fire team members, caregivers, children, youth, andrelevant community supports. The position contributes to case planning, servicecoordination, information sharing, and team-based decision-making whilemaintaining appropriate professional boundaries and confidentiality.

Home Fire is grounded in family preservation, relational practice, andculturally responsive service delivery. The program focuses on strengtheningcaregiving capacity, reducing risks that may contribute to family disruption,supporting safe home environments, and promoting family-led change. Servicesare delivered in collaboration with families and are guided by respect,dignity, self-determination, and an understanding of the historical and

ongoing impacts of colonization, intergenerational trauma, systemicbarriers, and involvement with Child and Family Services.





Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

HouseholdSupport, Family Capacity Building, and Direct Service

- Provide in-home support to caregivers and familiesparticipating in the Home Fire program.
- Conduct assessments of home environments and identifyareas that may benefit from improved organization, structure, cleanliness, orfunctionality.
- Collaborate with families to develop practical andachievable plans to improve the flow, safety, and function of the household.
- Support caregivers in creating and maintaininghousehold organization systems, including storage solutions, routines,schedules, and family responsibilities.
- Assist families in establishing household processesand routines that support daily functioning and reduce family stress.
- Develop meal plans and support families in creatingsustainable weekly meal preparation routines.
- Provide coaching related to household management,budgeting for household needs, and food planning when appropriate.
- Assist with light housekeeping tasks alongsidefamilies to model and support the development of healthy household practices.
- Coordinate the removal, disposal, donation, orrelocation of unnecessary household items, boxes, furniture, or clutter asappropriate.
- Identify environmental factors within the home thatmay impact family wellness and work collaboratively with families to addressthem.
- Support families in accessing community resources andservices that can assist with improving household stability and familywell-being.
- Develop trusting and supportive relationships withcaregivers and family members.
- Work collaboratively with Home Fir

📌 Home Ally (Winnipeg)
🏢 The Link: Youth and Family Supports
📍 Winnipeg