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Overview:
CASES’ Supervised Release Program (SRP) annually diverts over 5,000 people otherwise facing pretrial detention at Rikers Island to community-based supervision and support services. Program participants include youth and young adults, people with Substance Use disorders and mental illnesses, and individuals who are homeless. About 88% of SRP participants identify as Black and Latinx. The program serves individuals of all gender identities and sexual orientations. While many SRP participants experience significant behavioral health and other service needs, they have not been found guilty of a crime and have limited obligation to engage in program services. This context requires SRP community staff to expertly deliver culturally competent and trauma-informed approaches to help participants tap into their intrinsic motivation as they recognize and leverage their strengths and skills, typically including remarkable resilience. Community staff—including through mobile outreach in participants’ community settings—help participants fulfill SRP court-mandated supervision. SRP community staff seek to leverage the pretrial supervision period—typically lasting about 5-6 months—to help participants identify their goals and access services to support meaningful life improvements while fulfilling all court requirements and avoiding detention and incarceration.
What you will be doing:
- Provide case management and substance abuse counseling services to a caseload of pretrial participants who have co-morbid Substance Use issues.
- Provide substance abuse counseling services to clients in sessions including education on harm reduction, relapse prevention, abstinence, etc.
- Provide direct services, including individual counseling, crisis intervention, conflict resolution, advocacy, psychoeducation, coordination of services and appropriate follow-up on all referrals.
- Identify, network and work collaboratively with community Substance Use service providers and maintain an up-to-date directory of these resources.
- Directly escort clients to treatment interviews and/or treatment related appointments when needed.
- Conducts psychosocial assessment related to chemical/Substance Use and dependence.
- Participate in regular supervision, team meetings, case conferences and staff training.
- Work collaboratively with the court and other pretrial staff team to facilitate and ensure caseload participants’ successful completion of mandated supervision appointments.
- On an ongoing basis, conduct service need assessments with participants to examine psychosocial needs and problems affecting participation, engagement, and continuity in supervision and treatment and individual motivation for treatment.
- Utilize problem solving techniques, motivational interviewing as an integral part of the pretrial supervision and case management process approach, to help motivate and engage individuals in any needed process of change.
- Maintain collaborative relationships with community providers (supported housing providers, Health Homes, care management programs, addiction treatment and mental health providers, peer-run providers, education, vocational training and employment services providers, legal services providers, medical care providers, and family providers)
- Enter assessment, supervision appointment reporting, progress note documentation into program database; conduct all electronic charting activities and reporting in accordance with confidentiality regulations and in a timely fashion.
- Meet monthly case management contact and outreach goals as established by supervisory staff.
What we are looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree Required.
- An active Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) License strongly preferred.
- Minimum of three (3) years Substance Use counseling experience required.
- Minimum of three (3) years’ experience working in social services with individuals with Substance Use disorders, co-occurring mental health and involvement in the criminal justice system.
- Knowledge of community treatment, support services and resources.
- Experience understanding family systems based on diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- Highly organized and self-motivated.
- Must be a self-starter and able to work independently.
Schedule: Monday-Friday 9AM-5PM
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