Case Manager

Project 180 Overview

Mission: SSG-Project 180 provides practical and clinical behavioral health, re-entry, and diversion solutions that empower justice-involved Angelenos to achieve lasting personal transformation and reclaim their lives.

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Summary:

Project 180 is a leader in the forensic treatment space, offering high-quality, specialized treatment programs that serve thousands of justice-involved individuals. Our programs span criminal justice intercepts and include pre-arrest interventions, court-based diversions, jail in-reach, and intensive post-release services. Project 180 operates in partnership with Los Angeles County agencies including the Department of Mental Health (DMH), the Department of Health Services (DHS), and the Justice, Care and Opportunities Department (JCOD).

Annually, we serve over 1,500 justice-involved individuals.

Humanity:
We lead with a people-centered focus, seeking to understand and value the lived experience of others and centering their human dignity.

Integrity:
We honor the trust placed in us by doing what is right while fulfilling our commitments - even when no one is watching.

Adaptability:
We embrace the pivot, evolving to meet the complex needs of our community.

Empowerment:
We cultivate the tools, confidence, resilience, optimism, and agency within every individual to lead their own transformation.

Equity:
We honor everyone’s unique journey, meet them where they are and commit to providing the targeted support and resources that allow each individual to contribute and thrive.

Interdependence:
We move as a unified team, trading silos for collective strength, recognizing that our greatest impact is achieved together.

The Project Based Housing program is funded by the Department of Health Service (DHS) Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR), the ODR/ICMS program provides intensive wraparound services to the high-need/high-barrier behavioral health population in the LA County jail system. The program provides permanent supportive housing for some of the most underserved or highest utilizers in the county system. Services are delivered through a recovery oriented, harm reduction framework.

Under the supervision of the Program Supervisor, the Project Based Housing Case Manager is responsible for providing intensive, wraparound, on site and field based case management services. Case Managers also serve as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team. A successful Project Based Housing case manager will actively engage this population in services, supporting their clients in making progress towards meaningful recovery goals and increasing utilization of community resources.

Job title (I-III) to be established based on years of relevant experience.

Provide intensive, wraparound services on site and in the field to support recovery goals

• Actively engage clients in services through the development of strong rapport, consistent contact and use of motivational interviewing. Provide outreach services as needed, meeting clients “where they are at” (service location, client’s point of view).
• Conduct custody pick ups from LA county jails and accompany clients to court appearances.
• Services to target cornerstones of recovery oriented care (instilling hope, empowerment, self-responsibility and engaging in meaningful roles). Ensure service delivery is consistent with ethical standards and a harm reduction, strength based, trauma informed framework.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of available community resources. Complete needs assessment and link clients to…