Clinician, Community-Based

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice. Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods. With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies:

Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide.
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THE OPPORTUNITY

Brooklyn Justice Initiatives (BJI), the largest operating project of the Center, seeks to re-engineer the experience of criminal court in Brooklyn, New York, by providing judges and attorneys meaningful alternatives to bail, fines, and jail sentences. Operating out of Kings County Criminal Court and community-based offices, BJI is a team of social service providers, court-based resource coordinators, mental health practitioners, compliance specialists, and others who seek to improve the quality of justice.

Supervised Release offers an alternative to jail by providing pretrial supervision, case management, and voluntary social services to people charged with misdemeanor and felony offenses, and in doing so, uses an arrest as a window of opportunity to change the direction of a participant’s life, avoiding the harmful effects of incarceration. Program participants are monitored to ensure their appearance at court dates and mandatory programming, and receive referrals to services like job training, drug treatment, and mental health counseling.

BJI seeks Community-Based Clinicians for the borough’s Supervised Release Program (SRP). Reporting to the Clinical Manager, Clinicians are the front line of service delivery and key to ensuring that the program meets its mandate. Clinicians play a key role in providing timely emergency referrals, delivering crisis intervention and de-escalation support, and conducting intakes and assessments for participants. Clinicians also work with participants to identify and address barriers to compliance and court attendance;

conduct outreach to participants, court stakeholders, community-based service providers, and collateral contacts; lead cognitive behavioral therapy-informed sessions and other suitable programming; connect participants to appropriate services in the community to support their stabilization; and ensure accurate and timely court reporting on participants’ compliance with program requirements. Accurate and timely data entry is a core responsibility for this position.

• Conduct intakes and holistic assessments;
  • Create voluntary service and resource plans that address criminogenic needs and responsivity factors;
  • Make referrals to address immediate needs;
  • Provide assistance to participants to support engagement with referrals made, as needed; and
  • Provide participants with information regarding any additional court mandates, including, but not limited to, mandatory programming and Tactics and Choices class.
• Work with supervisors to complete and submit mandatory programming recommendations to court;
• Determine case assignments and facilitate warm handoffs to case managers:
  • Schedule participants for their first check-in with their assigned case manager;
  • Case conference with case managers to discuss participant needs and/or service and resource plans and/or mandatory programming, as appropriate; 
• Facilitate mandated and voluntary evidence-based practice sessions to enhance motivation for change and engagement in services;
• Develop and facilitate group and individual programming to address participant needs and court mandates;
• Provide comprehensive, clinically informed case management services:
  • Orchestrate internal and external resource allocation…