Correctional Program Specialist

DYS is seeking a Case Manager (Correctional Program Specialist) to serve as part of our unit management team at Indian River JCF. The ideal candidate will be a team player with a passion to habilitate youth.

• Develop and implement programming, discharge, and reentry planning for assigned caseload of youth.
• Serve as liaison with family, community, and internal staff (e.g., regional office, juvenile parole officers, courts); provide facility orientation material to parents/guardians of newly committed youth; create, approve, and manage visitation list and collect personal and family information.
• Represent habilitative programming on the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team (IDT); coordinate and facilitate IDT meetings (attendance and participation of all team members); gather necessary documentation and reports; participate in case staffing; document IDT meeting case notes.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with other facilities and support services; contact parent/guardian regarding treatment progress, status, emergencies, crisis, etc.
• Access, develop, maintain, and synthesize written and/or electronic documentation to satisfy requirements of federal, state, and local agencies and ensure compliance with DYS policy, American Correctional Association (ACA), and Ohio Standards; ensure all unit activities are compliant with unit plan; serve on various facility committees concerning assigned caseload.

• Leadership, commitment to excellence, professionalism, strong interpersonal communication skills, good judgment, change agent, excellent customer service, trauma‑responsive, and solution driven.
• 18 months experience in social or behavioral science or criminal justice or human services and 6 months experience in report writing, record keeping, interviewing, counseling or contact with social service agencies.
• Or completion of an associate core program in social or behavioral science or criminal justice or human services and 6 months experience in report writing, record keeping, interviewing, counseling or contact with social service agencies.
• Or completion of an undergraduate core program in social or behavioral science or criminal justice or human services.
• Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.

Counseling and Rehabilitation.

Problem Solving, Interpreting Data, Confidentiality, Ethics and Values, Collaboration.

Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility, Massillon, Ohio.

$26.68 – $33.35 per hour.

Full‑time.

Youth Services – Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility.

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