About The Link: Youth and Family Supports

For more than 90 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 a sense of being, pride, and purpose. With over 15 diverse programs, The Link has a community of caring staff that work together to provide support through a 24-hour crisis line, youth resource centers, emergency shelters, mobile crisis teams, specialized foster care, healing homes, job readiness supports, and Skills4Life. With a strong foundation within the community and a focus on connection, unity, and compassion, the organization provides a vital link for youth and families in the province of Manitoba.

Position Summary

The Home Ally is a front-line family-centred role within Home Fire, a Family Preservation program designed through a First Nations lens to strengthen families and support children to remain safely at home whenever possible. Reporting to the Family Preservation Manager, the Home Ally works as part of the 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 create secure, organized, functional, and sustainable home environments that promote family wellness, stability, autonomy, and preservation. The Home Ally assists caregivers to identify household strengths and barriers, develop practical plans, establish routines, improve organization, and access supports that enhance daily family functioning.

Working collaboratively with families, community resources, and interdisciplinary team members,



the Home Ally provides hands‐on coaching, modelling, encouragement, and follow‐up support. The role requires sound judgement, 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 works collaboratively with Home Fire team members, caregivers, children, youth, and relevant community supports. The position contributes to case planning, service coordination, information sharing, and team‐based decision‐making while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and confidentiality.

Home Fire is grounded in family preservation, relational practice, and culturally responsive service delivery. The program focuses on strengthening caregiving capacity, reducing risks that may contribute to family disruption, supporting safe home environments, and promoting family‐led change. Services are delivered in collaboration with families and are guided by respect, dignity, self‐determination, and an understanding of the historical and ongoing impacts of colonisation, inter‐generational trauma, systemic barriers, and involvement with Child and Family Services.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

Household Support, Family Capacity Building,



and Direct Service

- Provide in‐home support to caregivers and families participating in the Home Fire programme.
- Conduct assessments of home environments and identify areas that may benefit from improved organisation, structure, cleanliness, or functionality.
- Collaborate with families to develop practical and achievable plans to improve the flow, safety, and function of the household.
- Support caregivers in creating and maintaining household organisation systems, including storage solutions, routines, schedules, and family responsibilities.
- Assist families in establishing household processes and routines that support daily functioning and reduce family stress.
- Develop meal plans and support families in creating sustainable weekly meal preparation routines.
- Provide coaching related to household management, budgeting for household needs, and food planning when appropriate.
- Assist with light housekeeping tasks alongside families to model and support the development of healthy household practices.
- Coordinate the removal, disposal, donation, or relocation of unnecessary household items, boxes, furniture, or clutter as appropriate.
- Identify environmental factors within the home that may impact family wellness and work collaboratively with families to address them.
- Support families in accessing community resources and services that can assist with improving household stability and family well‐being.
- Develop trusting and supportive relationships with caregivers and family members.
- Work collaboratively with Home Fire team members to implement family support plans and contribute to identified goals and outcomes.
- Provide timely and accurate docu

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