Director of Detention Programs

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY OF $90000.00 - $100000.00

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 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 coordinate 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 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.

DYFJ directly operates two secure detention facilities for Juvenile Delinquents Juvenile Offenders and Adolescent Offenders whose cases are pending in Family Court or the Youth Parts in Supreme Court: Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn and Horizon Juvenile Center in the Bronx where youth receive comprehensive services including medical dental mental health care and education. Under administrative direction the Director of Detention Programs will work within ACS detention continuum to effectively oversee and manage programming for young people remanded to and/or placed in the care and/or custody of ACS within an assigned secure detention facility.

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

- Direct manage and coordinate day-to-day programming within a juvenile detention facility for youth pending court proceedings or as a sentence after a conviction for either felony or misdemeanor offenses including recreational and educational activities and workshops youth and family-focused events scheduling and logistical coordination internally and with external volunteers and vendors and development of internships support for NYS Regents exams and remediation and after-school activities.

- Directly supervise a unit of Programming staff and actively participate in the development coordination and provision of orientation and in-service training coaching.

- Ensure direct assistance and facilitation to/and on behalf of youth in the areas of education and recreation family and community engagement pro-social and vocational programming mentoring discharge and re-entry.

- Collaborate with other DYFJ facility staff to ensure appropriate development of programming schedules development implementation and maintenance of a youth behavior management system.

- Maintain collaborative and ongoing relationships with the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) Department of Education (DOE) other public agencies and external partners to maintain current programming and bring in new and innovative projects in the areas of recreation enhanced adolescent programming social emotional learning workforce development and religious services.

- Ensure theres representation 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 of reoffending.

- Ensure the required completion and maintenance of reports and other documentation requested by DYFJ administration and public partners and funding sources statistical reports data entry internal monthly quarterly and annual reports (on request) and contemporaneous programming logs are accessible and used as the basis for planning management and evaluation.

- In consultation with the Executive Director of Case Management monitor employees performance and manages disciplinary matters as warranted.

- Conduct tours with outside guests and visitors.

- Assist with mitigating operational issues related to coverage and facility coordination.

- Assist the Executive Director of Case Management as needed with ongoing case tracking data collection and reporting that informs the identification of admission trends review of incidents and facility needs and capacity.

Location: Crossroads Juvenile Center 17 Bristol Street Brooklyn NY 11212

ADDITIONAL 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.

TO APPLY

Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #757396.

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Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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