Assistant Program Manager

Assistant Program Manager: Hartford REGIONS-Staff Secure Residential Treatment Program for Male Youth, Hartford, CT

AGENCY DESCRIPTION

One of the oldest organizations of its kind in the country, Community Partners in Action (CPA) was founded nearly 150 years ago to champion criminal justice reform and advocate for preserving the dignity of those in and out of prison. Through our programs that include reentry and housing, youth initiatives, a nationally recognized Prison Arts Program, and holistic alternatives to incarceration, we provide a long-term impact that positively transforms individuals and society at large. Annually serving nearly 7,000 individuals throughout Connecticut, our work is possible due to partnerships with and support from individuals, government, private funders, organizations, and businesses.

CPA launched our BEDI (Belonging, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Journey in June 2020. Led by a task force that includes board members, our executive leadership team, Program Managers and staff who act as BEDI Ambassadors from each of our programs, WE ARE COMMITTED to building and maintaining an inclusive, equitable workplace and COMPELLED to have a constructive impact on criminal justice reform in CT that ends racial inequities and ensures the humanity and dignity of those interacting with the system. Read more about our BEDI journey at (https://cpa-ct.org/our-commitment-to-belonging-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/) (https://cpa-ct.org/our-commitment-to-belonging-equity-diversity-and-inclusion/)https://cpa-ct.org/our-bedi-journey/.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The REGIONS Staff Secure Program is a residential treatment program for up to 8 male youth. The mission of the program is to provide a home-like environment with a DBT trauma-informed, culturally responsive, gender-specific, linguistically appropriate, strengths-based, and relationship-driven milieu for the youth to help them improve their social, physical and emotional well-being. Our vision is to therapeutically intervene in the cycle of offending to reduce the youth's risk factors and prevent them from transitioning into the adult justice system. Our treatment philosophy is one that is individualized, designed to help the youth develop a positive self-image, learn effective coping skills, experience success, gain confidence, build positive relationships, achieve behavioral changes and re-enter their communities better equipped to succeed.

The youth in this program may have a high violence risk but it is not likely to be chronic and/or had later onset. The youth are not likely to have a history of violence nor be at risk for future violence. They are at a reduced risk to public safety and if they AWOL their behavior is not likely to involve violence or public safety risk. The youth in the REGIONS Staff Secure Program are amenable to treatment.

• Assists the Program Manager in the implementation of all program services and staffing including maintaining a safe, secure, gender-responsive, trauma-informed, linguistically appropriate and culturally sensitive environment; ensure fidelity to program model.
• Oversee day to day operations and maintain the daily staff schedule for the program.
• Coordinate all training for new and existing staff and ensure accurate record keeping of training records.
• Develop and maintain standards for program policies and procedures including supervision and monitoring of youth.
• Assist in managing staff recruitment, retention, evaluation, development and trainings in compliance with agency/funder requirement.
• Provide ongoing leadership and supervision for direct reports including facilitation of staff meetings and conducting monthly supervisions with Senior Youth Mentors to discuss performance and professional development.
• Serves as a role model to participants and staff modeling pro-social behaviors.
• Perform quality assurance audits to ensure program compliance with all standards.
• Train staff on CPA policies; attain certifications to train new staff on topics such as Suicide Prevention, Safe Crisis Management (SCM) and PREA.
• Ensure that the program's physical environment is clean, safe and supports a therapeutic community setting.
• Facilitate and document weekly MDT meetings.
• Provide DBT coaching with staff and youth daily.
• Run DBT consultation/implementation team weekly meetings.
• Support Staff Education and Support (SES) weekly meetings.
• Respond to after-hours calls, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed, on a rotating on-call basis.
• Establish and maintain professional boundaries with all staff, youth, and providers.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external providers.
• As requested, interact with other community-based agencies.
• Analyze and evaluate the accomplishment of program objectives.
• Collect and input data into the PBS (Performance Based Standards) system.
• Adhere to and maintain PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) standards, policies and practices.
• Participate in and maintain SCM certification.
• Comply with all funding and reporting requirements.
• Assume Program Manager duties, as needed.
• Participate in all required training.
• Assist with bi-weekly payroll via Paylocity.
• Perform all other duties as required.

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