Outreach Worker

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Full Time Professional Dr. Deer Center, Chicago, IL, US 1 Attachments

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $47,750.00 To $50,000.00 Annually

LCLC reaches over 350 minors and emerging adults in the criminal justice system annually with the following services:

• Community Holistic Defense for Juveniles and Emerging Adults:
  Free legal representation for indigent clients grounded in holistic defense practices which acknowledge that quality of representation and criminal legal outcomes are improved for youth when their unique developmental needs are simultaneously addressed by an integrated, interdisciplinary team of attorneys and social service providers.
• Community Housing: LCLC owns and operates 20 units of studio style housing for emerging adult men, 18-25 years old, inside the Deer Community Justice Center. In addition, LCLC has created a network of approximately 275 private landlords and funders that place other LCLC clients and their families in subsidized affordable housing units.
• Restorative Justice Community Court: LCLC was the lead agency that gathered numerous community and cook county court stakeholders together to design and launch the first Restorative Justice Community Court in the country in North Lawndale in September 2017. This court is based upon the tradition of restorative justice circle keeping and other restorative justice practices to enable repair and community integration for emerging adult men, 18-25, facing qualifying felony criminal legal charges.
  
  LCLC hopes to add a juvenile call to this court to serve minors 17 and younger under the same model.
• Community Holistic Juvenile Diversion:
  Since 2020, LCLC has worked with the Mayor’s office and the Chicago Police Department to close the Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC) and create a new model of juvenile diversion for Chicago. LCLC is one of eight service providers in the city and focuses on serving youth from the west side diverted from the courts by the Chicago Police Department.

LCLC looks to continuously innovate our program portfolio to build upon new best practices for serving minors and emerging adults and better serve our communities.

LCLC’s Outreach Worker is responsible for helping to reduce community violence and working with juveniles and emerging adults, 25 and under, who are of the highest risk of violence to help prevent shootings and retaliatory violence. More specifically, the responsibilities of outreach include but are not exclusive to being a part of the Community Holistic Defense team working in collaboration with attorneys and case managers identifying new potential clients and engaging existing clients in services, maintaining a caseload of 15 clients, mediating conflict, canvassing, monitoring and responding to community violence, serving as a liaison between LCLC and the community, and promoting the LCLC way of working to transform the lives of young people we serve and the criminal justice system as a whole.

This individual will work on a rotating schedule of 10a-6p Mon-Fri;
Tues-Saturday[DR1] 10a-6p along with being on call to respond to community violence up until 9p. Travel is required.

• Work with Juveniles and Emerging Adults (25 and under) who are of the highest risk of violence successfully engaging and/or re-engaging them in services and maintaining a caseload of up to 15 clients.
• Maintains contact with clients on a weekly basis, at minimum.
• Participates in Holistic Intake process with attorney and case management & completes eligibility screen for outreach services.
• Complete the safety assessment and safety intervention plan that will be used to help identify appropriate services, safety risks, and needed resources, sharing findings with case management & legal.
• Complete all required documentation in a timely manner utilizing the agency database.
• Ensures timely information about potential and current clients and their safety is clearly identified and communicated, both verbally and in writing, to…