Outreach Supervisor, Cure Violence, Youth Enrichment Services

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. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 180integrated programs in:
Education & Youth Development, Family Support, Job Training & Employment Support Services, Health, Housing, and Legal Services. We reach more than 72,000individuals and families each year at our 100locations, including 10,000 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 live in poverty, reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.

PROGRAM
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The Crisis Management System is a supporting a set of interrelated services to reduce gun violence in over 88 schools across 40 target neighborhoods. The school-based services component is designed to provide culturally competent programming to at-risk youth to reduce the likelihood of their involvement in violence in their school or community with the goal of increasing their engagement at school as measured through attendance, academic progress, and other measures.

The program can also include school-wide activities to assist in changing the culture around violence and to assist schools in their response to incidents that occur in the school or community. Participants should reside in or near the target Cure Violence (CV) catchment area, and be selected based on their risk for, and previously documented engagement in, violence or other infractions in the school or community in consultation with the principal or other school-based leaders plus the designated service provider

• Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality.
• Practice Universal Precautions/Standard Protocol & Procedures.
• Comply with any and all Federal, State, City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
• Support at-risk youth in their efforts to demonstrate an improvement in overall school attendance and academic achievement
• Reduce incidents of violence or other infractions in school or within the community.
• Work with the Principal/designee and CV provider (where applicable) to identify the youth that will be served by the program.
• Develop a set of services in coordination with the Principal/designee and CV provider (where applicable) to best serve these youth.
• Collaborate and coordinate with CV programs to streamline referral and support for youth outside of the school-based setting.
• Maintain a link between school-based conflict mediation providers and the community-based CV groups to leverage existing services, partnerships and collaborations.
• Implement Safe Passage routes to promote safety of students as they travel from identified transportation hub.
• Coordinate and/or facilitate necessary services, workshops to foster engagement amongst the parent(s), guardian(s), or caretakers of youth enrolled into the program.
• Utilize a service delivery in the format of workshops, group sessions, or individualized mentoring/counseling.
• Engage/ maintain a caseload of at least 10 - 15 at risk/vulnerable students per school.
• Monitor daily attendance in the form of sign-in sheets, exported data logs from remote sessions and related reports.
• Monthly meetings (at minimum) between the CBO designee and the principal and/or school designated liaison to monitor services and progress
• Assist with the oversight of all outreach efforts, program operations and manage direct reporting program staff and their subordinates.
• Coordinate, lead, and support public education activities, including the development and distribution of public education materials (i.e., flyers, posters, stickers and social media postings to promulgate a cure violence message).
• Communicate with peers in other CAMBA programs and in other community organizations on issues related to community violence and violence prevention.
• Understand all aspects of contract requirements and communicate this understanding to staff.
• Work with staff to set realistic weekly and monthly performance targets in accordance with…