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Your Voice Can Create Change

We’re hiring! Your experience can help create change in Cameron/Elk/McKean/Potter Counties.

Northern Tier Community Action Corporation is looking for a Youth & Young Adult (YYA), ages 18–24, with lived experience and/or expertise with homelessness or housing instability to join our team through the statewide Youth Homelessness Systems Improvement (YHSI) initiative.

In this paid Peer-to-Partnership (P2P) position, you’ll have an opportunity to use your voice, ideas, and experiences to help improve how our community responds to youth homelessness.

You’ll work alongside local partners to:

    • Identify gaps in youth housing and homelessness services
    • Help develop a community plan to prevent and end youth homelessness
    • Bring youth voice and lived experience into important conversations
    • Collaborate with organizations working in housing, education, human services, and more

No prior professional experience is required. Training and support will be provided!

Location: Northern Tier Community Action Corporation, 135 West Fourth Street, Emporium, PA 15834
Hours: 30–40 hours/week
Position: Part-time, Temporary
Dates: December 2026 – June 30, 2027
Pay: Expected hourly rate of $20–$25/hour, with the final rate determined by the host agency based on local cost of living and organizational compensation practices
Requirement: Access to a vehicle and a valid driver’s license

Ready to use your voice to make a difference?

Express your interest here: Peer-to-Partnership Interest Form

Questions? Contact Emily Camerer,
YHSI Program Manager, Community Action Association of PA, 717-233-1075 x15

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This temporary opportunity is funded through June 30, 2027, by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant awarded to the PA Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). It is part of the Eastern/Western PA Continuums of Care’s YHSI grant project in partnership with the Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (CAAP).

Help us work toward making youth homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in Cameron/Elk/McKean/Potter Counties.