If you are experiencing a mental health crisis call 988 or text 741-741.

CAREERS

We are looking for passionate, qualified individuals who embrace the challenge of working in an environment that supports people and their behavioral health needs.

Why work for CLR?

We are a nonprofit that has provided services in Pierce County since 1971. We serve every person who comes through the door – sometimes with our own team and sometimes by navigating to other agencies designed to meet a client’s needs. Often, it’s both.


We do not turn anyone away - regardless of their ability to pay.


Our employees are dedicated to meeting people where they are to provide individualized support based on specific needs. We believe in honoring others' dignity. Through evidence-based treatment, we connect clients to tools that enable them to build paths toward mental wellness. 


When asked to describe the CLR environment, the top four words our employees named are supportive, flexible, collaboration and compassion.


Comprehensive Life Resources is committed to establishing and sustaining an equitable community that achieves the agency’s equity mission to end the predictive value of race while we seek to recognize, reconcile, and rectify historical and contemporary injustices and support tribal sovereignty and cultures.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision

CLR employees employed full time receive full medical, dental and vision benefits.
 

  • Medical coverage through Premera Blue Cross with options for a health savings account and flexible spending account
  • Dental coverage through Guardian
  • Vision coverage through VSP

Retirement

After two years of service with at least 1,000 hours per year, CLR contributes to a 403(b) account in your name. Employees may make self-contributions at any time. CLR contributions belong to the employee immediately, without a vesting period.

Tuition Assistance

CLR supports employees as they further their education. We recognize that tuition costs have shot up over the last several years and it has become increasingly difficult for people to access higher education to advance their career. We offer up to $3,000 per calendar year in tuition assistance for whatever field an employee chooses. 

Paid Leave


Vacation

Vacation hours are accrued on a per hour basis; current accrual rate can be up to 3.69 hours per pay period.


Sick Leave

Sick leave is accrued on a per hour basis; up to 3.69 hours per pay period.


Mental Health/Wellness Leave​​​​​​​

Once an employee has accrued a minimum of 40 hours of sick leave, a maximum of 16 hours per year may be used from sick leave balances for personal reasons.


Holidays​​​​​​​

CLR employees receive 11 paid holidays:


  • ​​​​​​​New Year's Day
  • Martin Luther King Day
  • Memorial Day
  • Juneteenth
  • Independence Day
  • Labor Day
  • Indigenous Peoples' Day
  • Veterans Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • Day after Thanksgiving
  • Christmas

Employee Affinity Groups

Employee Affinity Groups come together and actively engage and gather around a unifying mission to strength employee connections. At CLR, membership is voluntary and open to all CLR current and active employees. Our four affinity groups include:


  • Anti-Racism Collaborative
  • Ability Justice
  • Rainbow Alliance
  • Veterans Unite

Career Pathways

Check out these open positions!

Pearl Youth Residence

Pearl Youth Residence is a positive learning place for youth, families, and staff. The program serves youth ages 12-17 from all around Washington state.


Park Place Residence

Our adult residential program offers individualized treatment and recovery services for people with serious mental illness and who are in need of daily supportive services. 


MCIRT

Our Mobile Community Intervention & Response Team (MCIRT) in Spanaway is passionate about servicing the community by providing a therapeutic, community-based system designed to reduce the demand on 911, emergency rooms, and other crisis services.


Gig Harbor Satellite Office

Our outpatient treatment option for people who live in the Key Peninsula area. This office also acts as a remote work location for other CLR program employees. 


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Internships

CLR offers internship opportunities for individuals looking for experience in the field of behavioral health services and more. 



Questions about a career at CLR?

Contact:


Jeffrey Young

Human Resources Recruiting Administrator

jyoung@cmhshare.org

253-396-5287




About Pierce County

Comprehensive Life Resources is located in beautiful, growing Tacoma, Washington. In 2018, Forbes listed the Tacoma-Lakewood metro area #10 on its Best Places for Business and Careers.


Set in the shadow of Mount Rainier and surrounded by water, Tacoma and Pierce County are known for walkable neighborhoods, farmers markets, abundant parks and accessible waterfronts.


Pierce County offers ample recreational activities, including water activities like boating, fishing, and swimming. Thousands of miles of hiking trails can be easily accessed, with options for families with small kids to mountaineers seeking to summit our majestic mountain. An active lifestyle is common for many who live in Pierce County, and you’ll find runners, walkers and bikers out year-round. Snow activities are plentiful, and multiple ski resorts are less than two hours away.


Tacoma offers an active arts, theatre and museum scene, with six museums within walking distance of each other. Known for its world-renowned glass art, the city provides a friendly atmosphere for budding artists and famous artists alike.


House hunters will find a range of options in Pierce County, from traditional Victorian and Craftsman homes to mid-century modern treasures to condos with unmatchable water views – and everything in between.


Pierce County’s moderate climate means warm summer months and mild springs and winters. The average rainfall is 45 inches, which contributes to the greenscape everywhere you go. The average temperature in the summer is around 75 degrees. Pierce County scores a 7.3 out of 10 on Best Places comfort index, which means it is more comfortable than most places in Washington.


The violent crime index for Pierce County is 16.4/100; The U.S. average is 22.7.

Employee Spotlight

Meet Jerinee

Every person on our team - whether they provide direct service or support services - plays a role in the treatment path for the people we serve. Meet Jerinee, the kitchen supervisor at Pearl Youth Residence.


Meet Orlando

This story is about an employee named Orlando Stumvoll, written by Jacob Nau.

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Orlando Stumvoll is known among people experiencing homelessness in Tacoma as a dude who’s no-nonsense, been through it already and is still standing, offering a hand up. He’s always going to tell it how it is, promise nothing he can’t deliver on, and look you in the eye. The young folks at HYPE call him “Pops” and they mean that in the best of ways, as a term of respect for an elder who’s worth listening to.


“Pain is a powerful motivator,” Orlando often says. He’s 20 years sober this year, and a whole lot of years not sober before that. Pre-sobriety, Orlando did what he had to do to get by; he lived by grit and guts, survived a lot of chaos, including incarceration, and made it out the other side. His life story is a testament to pain's efficacy as a motivational tool. Yet today, Orlando is part of CLR’s Homeless Outreach team as an FHARPS case manager and his everyday work is to help bring others out of pain and into sustainable stability, to help start the healing process, which just goes to show, life finds a way of using what you know.


Orlando has been bending corners for CLR’s Outreach team since 2015, looking for people experiencing homelessness to help however he can. The homeless outreach team does exactly what their name suggests - they reach out to homeless folks throughout Pierce County and offer assistance. Almost always that relationship starts simple, with some snacks and a kind word, sometimes a blanket or rain jacket. People got to be seen first. Once rapport is established, usually the outreach worker starts looking for direction, asking the person experiencing homelessness how they want to be helped. The answers are always so simple (housing) and yet so needlessly complex (need ID, phone, insurance, behavioral health assistance, CE, employment assistance, clothing assistance, transportation, housing locator and application assistance, financial assistance, supportive housing assistance, etc.). Part of Orlando’s role with the FHARPS arm of the Outreach team is to simplify housing for the most complex cases.



FHARPS is a criteria-based intervention that came out of the True Blood settlement and is financed by a state-controlled pot of money used to help people experiencing homelessness develop long-term stable housing. In order to qualify for FHARPS, a person must be currently experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness and already be receiving FPATH services or have had recent contact with involuntary detainment, crisis triage and/or stabilization services. FHARPS provides up to 6 months of housing funds and a small wraparound support team. Orlando is a part of that wraparound team for 15 or so clients that he visits a couple times a week at one of the houses CLR is master leasing. Orlando works with his clients on independent living skills, short- and long-term goal development, finding employment, and finding motivation and reasons to reinvest in themselves. He’s always there offering stern and stoic encouragement.


Orlando is characteristically straightforward with the FHARPS clients he works with. He says, “You know, I don’t ever have a one-answer fix. But if you allow me to help, I’ll slow-walk you along the way and we’ll get you to a good life.” And Orlando inspires the sort of trust needed to want to start that walk. He says that you can’t fix a problem with the same way of thinking that caused the problem. Orlando has a great line (you should ask him) about leading a horse to water that goes in a different direction than one would expect and ultimately becomes quite explicit and unprintable. But what it comes down to, he says, is that we all need help to maintain hope. And Orlando’s made it his mission to be a hope dealer, one of the best I’ve ever met in fact. His past and present contributions to the CLR mission fill me with hope for our future.

Photography by Danica Thomas.


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