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THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $70000.00 - $80000.00.
The Administration for Childrens Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports. ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services and provides subsidized child care vouchers. ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment. In juvenile justice ACS oversees detention placement and programs for youth in the community.
The Division of Youth and Family Justice (DYFJ) provides a wide range of services and programs for youth at every stage of the juvenile justice process. Our goals are to (a) build stronger and safer communities and advance public safety by preventing juveniles from entering the New York Citys juvenile justice system (b) provide therapeutic treatment and services to youth in our custodial care and (c) help juveniles access the tools they need to leave the justice system for good. We strive to help families and young people by providing supportive services that are responsive to the needs of individual youth and families.
Juvenile Justice Program Services (JJPS) ensures that youth served by DYFJ (from detention to placement) are receiving comprehensive and consistent medical mental health case management social and educational services throughout their involvement with our system by: overseeing ACS entire array of programming and services for court involved youth developing innovative programming and services for youth and families strengthening mental health services working together with stakeholders to identify trends track data and implement effective interventions and coordinating training and staff development around specific clinical mental health and programmatic issues such as LGBTQ youth issues family engagement substance abuse and the impact of trauma. In addition JJPS organizes our family engagement and parent support work and provides staff training on mental health trauma LGBTQ issues and Commercially Sexually Exploited Children.
The Case Management Supervisor will work within the DYFJs detention continuum to effectively oversee and support the intake adjustment facilitation coordination advocacy planning discharge and re-entry for juvenile delinquents juvenile offenders and adolescent offenders remanded to and/or placed in the care and/or custody of ACS within an assigned secure detention facility. The Supervisor has the responsibility and accountability for secure detention case management.
Specific duties include but are not limited to:
- Direct manage and coordinate day-to-day case management operations within the juvenile detention facility for youth pending court proceedings or as a sentence after a conviction for either felony or misdemeanor offenses
- Actively participate in the development coordination and provision of orientation and in-service training to promote and support the professional development of staff
- Account for the intake of new residents process and procedure
- Conduct ongoing review of case files including progress notes
- Ensure direct assistance and facilitation to/and on behalf of youth in the areas of intake and assessment case expediting educational advocacy crisis intervention individual family and group counseling pro-social and vocational programming mentoring discharge and re-entry
- Collaborate with the Program and other DYFJ facility staff to ensure appropriate documentation and participation of programming development and maintenance of youth behavior management system and necessary orientation and/or coaching of staff
- Ensure timely communication and ongoing collaboration with the youth their families the courts the youths attorney and other systems and agencies involved in the life of the youth for the purpose of advising youth and coordinating current case status and permanency
- Ensure case management attendance at detention milieu-based meetings and conferences to support the planning development and coordination of care and behavior plans and discharge recommendations for youth that will enable them to return to the community with reduced risk to reoffend
- Ensure the required completion and maintenance of adjustment reports and other documentation requested by the courts statistical reports data entry internal monthly quarterly and annual reports (on requests) and case management records that are contemporaneous accessible and used as the basis for planning management and evaluation
- Assist the Director of Case Management as needed on ongoing case tracking data collection and reporting that informs the identification of admission trends review of incidents facility needs and capacity policy development special projects and problematic operational issues
ADDITONAL INFORMATION
Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.
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ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF RES - 1001B
Qualifications :
1. A masters degree in social work from an accredited school of social work and four years of full-time paid professional experience in a child care institution or in group work with children in a child care setting including two years in an administrative capacity; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college in sociology psychology education public administration or a closely related field and five years of full-time paid professional experience as described in 1 above including two years in an administrative capacity; or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have two years of administrative experience in a child care setting.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Full-time