Case Manager

# Case Manager Just A Start(Just A Start)###

Job Description
** Type:
Exempt, Full time
**** Supervisor:
Director of Youth and Alumni Services
***
* Location:

430 Rindge Avenue, Suite #202
**** Salary Range: $60,000 - $70,000
**** POSITION PURPOSE**:

As a Case Manager you’ll work with opportunity youth (ages 16-24) from the Boston Metro North region providing wrap-around supportive services and referrals ensuring that participants attain their High School Equivalency credential and secure high quality, good paying jobs. The Case Manager is a key team member on the Youth Build Just A Start team. Their scope of work includes but is not limited to:
1) providing trauma-informed case management services to trainees and alumni,
2) collaborating with the Director of Youth and Alumni Services (DYAS) to design Life Skills curriculum for trainees, and
3) supporting  with leadership development training. The Case Manager works closely with the Director of Youth and Alumni Services to provide strength-based coaching to ensure trainees remain in good standing and successfully complete the program. This is an exciting career opportunity for an experienced equity-centered case manager with an interest in supporting young people achieve their personal and professional goals.

The Case Manager will join a growing team of supportive service youth workers committed to Youth Build trainees and our growing portfolio of young adult training programs.
** PROGRAM BACKGROUND:
** Just A Start is a community development corporation dedicated to promoting equity by creating access to stable housing and building pathways to economic opportunity. We build and preserve affordable housing, offer education and workforce training, and provide housing resources and services to low-to moderate-income people in Cambridge and nearby communities. Founded in 1968 as a teen summer jobs program, Just A Start has a long history of serving young people in Cambridge.

Youth Build Just A Start is a full-time, comprehensive youth workforce development program for ages 16-24 in the Boston Metro North region. Our program is one of 11 independently operated Youth Build programs and members of the . As a proud affiliated member of the , we help young people reclaim their education, gain job skills, and become community leaders.

We define students by their potential, not their challenges, offering mentorship, counseling, and support. Utilizing positive youth development and trauma-informed practices, we provide wrap-around services and academic and career training to out of school youth.
** CASE MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES**
* * Manage* an average student case load of 15 active students as well as alumni by providing 1:1 case management services across Youth Programs (Youth Build and Solar Start).
* * Develop and administer
* the basic needs survey, develop Supportive Action Plans (SAPs), and Student Success Plans.
* * Coordinate progress reviews
* ensuring that trainees receive timely feedback on their progress across all program components.
* * Promote respect and responsibility
* by upholding Youth Build policies through strength-based coaching.
* * Provide supportive service benefits
* to trainees such as the program stipend, MBTA passes, driving lessons, and other student milestone incentives.
* * Maintain relationships and communicate
* with trainees, family members, guardians, as well as other service providers ensuring continuity of supportive services.
* * Advocate* for trainees who are court-involved through coordination and communication with lawyers, court-room advocates and accompanying youth to court appearances as necessary.
* * Develop supportive service strategies
* in collaboration with other Just A Start departments as well as with Career Pathways, Education and Construction teams ensuring that trainees meet their educational and career goals.
* * Support the effective placement and transition
* of eligible trainees in and out of Just A Start’s participant-designated transitional housing apartment units and coordinate as needed with JAS’ Resident Services and property management.
* * Complete case notes
* and other required case management…