Juvenile Rehabilitation Counselor - Snoqualmie

Our vision is to ensure that “All Washington's children and youth grow up safe and healthy, thriving physically, emotionally, and educationally, nurtured by family and community”.

Juvenile Rehabilitation Counselor 1 (JRC1)

Snoqualmie - Fulltime position

November 1st, 2026, 11:59 pm

$55,596 - $72,900 Yearly. The salary does not include an additional 5% premium pay for employees working in King County or an on-site 24/7 facility 5% premium.

Permanent and non-permanent

The Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) is accepting applications for a Juvenile Rehabilitation Counselor (JRC1) to join our team at Echo Glen Children’s Center to support juvenile counseling services by creating pathways for self-sufficiency through meaningful partnerships, employment, new opportunities and effective rehabilitation services.

As a Juvenile Rehabilitation Counselor 1, you will assist our counselors to provide comprehensive case management, transition and reentry planning, counseling, and treatment services as you supervise an assigned caseload of youth for compliance with program and treatment plan requirements and prepare youth and their families for re-entry back into the community. A Bachelor's degree or a combination of education/experience that totals at least four years, will prepare you for promotion into Juvenile Rehabilitation Counselor 2 jobs.

• Assist residential counselors to assess behavior and monitor youth compliance with case plan and program requirements.
• Support and monitor youth participation in appropriate treatment services.
• Co-facilitate Dialectical Behavior Therapy & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy groups.
• Perform routine security duties.
• Conduct wellness checks, living unit building security checks, key checks room searches for contraband, pat and/or strip searches of youth, assist in search and apprehension of escapees.
• Assign and supervise youth chores within a living unit to meet health and hygiene standards.
• Supervise or serve meals to resident groups; monitor movement of residents to and from central areas such as school, medical, and recreation facilities.
• Organize and supervise group recreational activities.

An equivalent combination of education and/or experience totaling four years.

OR

Two years of college education from an accredited institution, AND two years of experience as a Juvenile Rehabilitation Security Officer.

OR

A Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Previously demonstrated experience or understanding of:

• Treatment and intervention principles and practices.
• Ability to relate to clients from diverse backgrounds and cultural groups .
• Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences related to juvenile delinquency.
• Adolescent development and juvenile rehabilitation practices and principles.
• Providing cognitive/behavior therapeutic interventions.
• Basic juvenile correctional system, rehabilitation objectives in juvenile institutions, basic interviewing and counseling theories and techniques, basic concepts, fundamentals and principles of individual and group behaviors, introductory psychology of deviant behavior and crisis intervention methods and techniques.
• Supervision and lead techniques.

The Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) is committed to Washington’s children and youth growing up safe, healthy, and thriving. We invite all candidates to join us in our goal to create a diverse and equitable…