Resource Coordinator Job New York New York USA,Social Work

Location: New York

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:

Operating Programs that pilot new ideas and address local challenges;

Conducting original research to evaluate what works—and what doesn’t; and

Providing expert assistance and policy guidance to reformers across the country and beyond.

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.

THE OPPORTUNITY

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 at 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 is seeking a Resource Coordinator to provide coverage in various Criminal and Supreme Court courtrooms and to engage legal parties and participants. Reporting to the Court Operations Supervisor, the Resource Coordinator will be responsible for helping to explain Manhattan Justice’s services to legal parties, coordinating new referrals, orienting new participants to Manhattan Justice, and scheduling participants for services. Once a participant is enrolled in programming, the Resource Coordinator will provide regular written and verbal updates and compliance reports to the court, including to judges, clerks, defense attorneys, and prosecutors.

A key component of the Resource Coordinator's role will be close collaboration with the Manhattan Misdemeanor Alternative to Incarceration Court, a new problem-solving court. The Resource Coordinator will coordinate referrals for new participants, engage participants in the courtroom, report on participants' compliance, and conference cases with the judge, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. Specialized problem-solving courts are an exciting, unique, and demanding area of practice, and the Resource Coordinator role involves navigating and constructively engaging with differing and, at times, competing stakeholder perspectives.

Responsibilities

include but are not limited to:

Cover Criminal and Supreme Court courtrooms and collaborate with defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges to identify participants for Manhattan Justice services;
Communicate with prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and other court staff about Manhattan Justice’s services;
Coordinate new referrals and schedule participants for intake and assessments;
Ensure participants are connected with intake specialists, case managers, and/or social workers;
Provide written and verbal case updates…