Care Coordinator - Forensics

Lutheran Social Services of WI and Upper MI is currently seeking a Forensic Care Coordinator for our Operating Avenues for Re-Entry Success (OARS) program serving Marathon, Wood and Clark counties. This is a full-time, benefit eligible role. The position requires regular visits in the client's home and/or community and then is able to work from home for documentation and meeting purposes.

The role is primarily, Monday through Friday, 1st shift, but will require flexibility to meet the needs of clients.

This role provides comprehensive person-centered case management. This requires ongoing learning in Motivational Interviewing through participation in monthly coaching and quarterly fidelity reviews as well as the use of other identified evidence-based practices. This role works with individuals in DHS’s Outpatient Competency Restoration Program (OCRP), Jail-Based Competency Program (JBCR), Conditional Release Program (CR), and Opening Avenues to Reentry Success Program (OARS), or Supervised Release (SR).

Forensic Care Coordinators work collaboratively with community service providers that have been identified to specifically address the needs of the client with a mental health diagnosis and/or substance use disorder. LSS works closely with the client’s treatment team and natural supports to best support whether the client is released from jail, prison, mental health institutions, or the community. Forensic Care Coordinators working in CR, OCRP, JBCR or OARS can be asked to work with clients in any of those programs, but Supervised Release remains separate.

Supervised Release Care Coordinators will not work in CR, OCRP, JBCR or OARS:

• CR program works with individuals found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Forensic Coordinators provide professional testimony, write court documents, and understand the 917.17 WSS. The Forensic Coordinator works with mental health institutions, court systems, natural support, and community providers.
• OCRP and JBCR offer services to adults charged with a crime adjudicated not competent to stand trial but likely to regain competency. The Competency programs Forensic Coordinators understand the 971.14 WSS and are responsible for meeting clients in the community (OCRP) as well as in the Jail setting (JBCR). The Forensic Coordinator works with the jail system, providing legal education, community providers, the court system, institutions, and natural support.
• The OARS program, the Forensic Coordinator, understands the criminogenic needs of the client. This is a voluntary program. The Forensic Coordinator starts meeting with the client at the correctional institution in the pre-release stage and continues through post-release. The Forensic Coordinator works closely with the client and their treatment team for up to two years.
• Supervised Release specifically works with sexually violent people who are committed under WI statute 980. While they currently may be living at Sandridge Secure Treatment Center, the role of LSS is to provide service coordination and services to assist them with a transition to living in the community.
• Sexually violent person:
  This is someone who has a mental disorder that makes it likely the person will engage in future acts of sexual violence convicted of a sexually violent offense, adjudicated as delinquent for a sexually violent offense, or found not guilty of or not responsible for a sexually violent offense by reason of mental disease or defect. These people are committed under Wis.
  
  Stat. ch. 980.

• Promote client independence and growth, consistent with the service plan.
• Provide services using a trauma-informed and person and/or family-centered model.
• Provide services utilizing agency approved and supported evidence-based practices that have been indicated by the funder and/or agency.
• Accurately complete time reporting.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Assess client’s needs utilizing the required assessment…