Case Manager - Housing

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice. Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods. With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies:

Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide. Learn more about our work ovatingjustice.org.

Manhattan Justice Opportunities seeks to rethink justice in Manhattan and build a justice system that is more responsive to individuals’ and communities’ needs. Manhattan Justice is a centralized, court-based screening, resource, and referral hub that provides judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys in New York County Criminal Court and Supreme Court with a wide array of social service-based sentencing options in misdemeanor and felony cases.

Manhattan Justice offers onsite case management, psycho-educational groups, and restorative justice programming, and provides referrals to community-based service providers for mental health, substance use, employment, primary health care services and more. These services, which are open to anyone who needs them—including mandated participants’ families and friends, and others affected by the criminal justice system—help people address underlying issues in their lives, build stability, and decrease their likelihood of further justice involvement.

Manhattan Justice Opportunities (MJO) seeks a Case Manager, Housing to serve as an in-house housing expert supporting participants experiencing housing instability. The Case Manager will work closely with case managers, social workers, and program leadership to help participants obtain and/or maintain safe and stable housing, including emergency, transitional, and permanent options. This role leverages deep knowledge of New York City housing systems, subsidies, and community resources to remove barriers that contribute to justice involvement and program non-compliance.

• Conduct housing assessments to determine participant needs, eligibility, and barriers, including family composition, safety considerations, mental health needs, and criminal justice history.
• Provide comprehensive, clinically-informed case management to a caseload of mandated and voluntary participants to address housing needs.
• Assist participants with applications for supportive housing, affordable housing, vouchers (e.g., CityFHEPS, Section
  8), rental assistance, and other housing programs.
• Support participants in accessing emergency housing, shelters, drop-in centers, or temporary placements, as well as in obtaining permanent housing placements and maintaining stability.
• Assist participants in obtaining identification, documentation, and other materials necessary for housing applications.
• Provide service planning focused on long-term housing stability.
• Provide referrals to community-based service providers to address housing needs.
• Facilitate and help develop and/or revise curricula for a range of on-site groups focused on common housing needs.
• Work collaboratively with case managers and social workers through case conferencing and coordinated planning.
• Facilitate trainings or informational sessions for staff on housing resources and processes.
• Provide updates on participants’ engagement in services to assigned social workers and case managers, as necessary to track participants’ compliance with court mandates.
• Enter and maintain accurate up-to-date participant information in program databases, including assessment, case management, attendance, case outcome data, and other data consistent with reporting requirements.
• Support development of resource…