Outreach Worker, BIVO Cure Violence Program

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Who We Are:

CAMBA is a community of staff, volunteers, clients, donors, neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City, where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. CAMBA offers more than 180 integrated programs in Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Job Training & Employment Support Services, Health, Housing, and Legal Services.

We reach almost 80,000 individuals and families, including almost 13,000 youth. CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are living in poverty, reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.

CAMBA’s Cure Violence Program works with 16–24 year old at risk youths who are or may have potentially been involved in street violence, community residents, businesses and community-based organizations to implement Cure Violence:
The Campaign to Stop the Shooting. Cure Violence is a public health strategy to reduce and prevent shootings and killings. This program will focus on a defined area identified as a hot spot in Brownsville, Brooklyn for shooting violence within the 73rd Precinct. The program works to prevent gun violence by:
1) mediating conflicts that may end in gun violence,
2) changing the thinking of individuals who are most at risk of being victims or perpetrators of violence, and
3) working closely with a broad coalition of local partners to promote a visible community-wide message that shooting is unacceptable behavior.

Position Outreach Worker
Reports To Assistant Program Manager
Location 444 Thomas Boyland Street, Brooklyn, NY 11212

• Reach out and market the program to the community via street outreach to recruit clients.
• Assist in organizing responses to all shootings that occur in the targeted catchment area within 72 hours of notice of the shooting or killing.
• Prepare marketing materials and market the program to community.
• Attend and help facilitate social/peer support events such as community events and shooting response meetings.
• Review all documentation establishing clients eligibility for program and make file copies.
• Assist clients in completing all CAMBA intake applications and forms.
• Create and maintain client files.
• Conduct initial intake or assessment of clients and clients families and or periodic reassessments.
• Follow up with clients and with referral organizations regarding client contact and progress with referral organization.
• Work with clients to break through barriers to client goals and to assist clients in advocating for themselves and in moving toward self sufficiency.
• Recommend and implement strategies to persuade clients to participate more fully in this process.
• Act as client liaison or advocate with outside organizations regarding education, healthcare, housing, etc.
• Monitor clients progress toward their goals via regularly scheduled telephone contact and or face to face home and office visits, and document via progress notes.
• Recommend closing of cases in which clients have achieved primary goals and have maintained stability for a period of months or have not demonstrated willingness to participate or have become ineligible for services.
• Provide all required information for weekly monthly quarterly and annual reports.
• May conduct client’s and or families periodic reassessments.
• May schedule appointments for client with referral organizations.
• May escort clients to appointments such as educational, medical, social service.
• May assist clients in completing applications for benefits and entitlements.

• Bachelor’s Degree BA and/or equivalent experience.

• Equally at home conversing with gang members, community activists, law enforcement personnel, and public officials.
• Subject to a criminal background check and random drug testing.
• No pending criminal cases or prior convictions for sexual…