Re-Entry Coordinator

THE SELECTED CANDIDATE WILL BE OFFERED A SALARY BETWEEN $62868.00 - $72298.00

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 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 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 Re-entry Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the development of service and discharge plans with the secure detention milieu to deepen connections in the community that will help facilitate the successful reintegration of youth into the community upon their release.

The selected candidate will be responsible for performing the following duties but not limited to:

- Manage relationships within detention to coordinate and support the development of service plans and discharge plans for youth in detention.

- Establish relationships with community-based organizations to develop a network of providers that will work to assist youth and their families in connecting to resources in the community upon the youths release.

- Engage youth in the identification of their individual strengths needs and interests.

- Coordinate with DYFJ case management programs and detention services staff as well as DYFJ-partner and contracted health services and DOE staff.

- Ensure youth are exposed to services that address their needs including mental health medical literacy substance use emotional regulation conflict mediation life skills prosocial development and enrichment recreation and vocational and career support.

- Collaborate with other City agencies including the Department of Youth and Community and Development Department of Education and the Department of Correction for planning and continuity purposes.

- Perform field visits as needed to coordinate with other stakeholders to ensure continuity in the areas of medical and mental health education career readiness and prosocial programming and promote greater family engagement to support continuity for kids as they are being released from detention.

- Participate in detention milieu-based meetings conferences team meetings and weekly program meetings to support the planning development of programs across youth living spaces and other designated programming space. Coordinate the care behavior plans and discharge recommendations for youth that will enable them to return to the community with reduced risk of reoffending.

- Prepare and maintain reports by utilizing information obtained from forms service plans discharge plans youth surveys databases and other sources.

- Perform Case Management duties as assigned.

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 #758682.

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Note: Only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

COMMUNITY COORDINATOR - 56058

Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in 1 above.

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