Case Coordinator

Center-For-Alternative-Sentencing-; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Center For Alternative Sentencing is seeking a Case Coordinator for our Harlem Pretrial Services team. You will conduct supervision introduction/orientation meetings with new participants, review supervision conditions, and coordinate reporting schedules to support successful court appearances.

This full-time hybrid role is based in Harlem with 9:00 AM–5:00 PM hours and a salary of $61,193 per year. The position emphasizes strengths-based, gender-responsive services in a supportive community

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 1-2 years of experience, or alternative an Associate’s Degree with a minimum of three years' experience working in human services with individuals with substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and involvement in the criminal justice system
• Extensive knowledge

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and community-based services to a caseload of pretrial participants
• Rapidly conduct Supervision Introduction/Orientation meetings with new participants to review supervision conditions, the reporting schedule, and the mandatory methods of communication
• Work collaboratively with the court and other pretrial staff to facilitate and ensure caseload participants’ successful completion of mandated supervision appointments and court appearances
• Review legal and court screening documentation and work with participants to analyze their offending behavior patterns
• Conduct service need assessments with participants to examine psychosocial needs and problems, including mental and substance use disorders
• Link participants to treatment based on eligibility, preferences and needs and provide escort to community services
• Ensure the timely flow of community outreach and case management activities to meet program goals
• Utilize problem solving techniques, motivational interviewing as part of the pretrial supervision and case management process
• Provide all services in a gender-responsive, trauma-informed manner adhering to risk-need-responsivity
• Maintain collaborative relationships with community providers

Skills

Case management

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Associate’s degree with required experience

Job description

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Hourly Full-Time [Ben Elig] OFFICE/CLERICAL 4 West 125th Street, New York, NY, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 2453

Salary: $61,193.00 Annually

Job Title: Case Coordinator

Job Summary:

CASES is currently seeking a Case Coordinator for our Harlem Pretrial Services team. Rapidly after release into the Supervised Release Program (SRP), the Case Coordinator conducts Supervision Introduction/Orientation meetings with new participants to review supervision conditions required under the supervision plan. In this role, you will help participants comply with their supervision appointments and court appearances during their legal case's pendency. You will also conduct ongoing service need assessments with participants and develop collaborative service plans addressing identified needs and goals.

You will ensure participants receive services that are strengths-based, gender-specific, and culturally sensitive while adhering to the core principles of risk, need and responsivity to reduce recidivism, increase engagement in community treatment services and support participants to achieve their self-identified goals for treatment, recovery, rehabilitation, and crime‑free community integration. This position is based in our Harlem Community Office and fieldwork in the larger NYC community as needed to assist participants.

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Salary: The salary for this role is $61,193 per year

Location Address: 4 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation

Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid (for roles that have at least 1 full day remote per week)

What You Will Be Doing:

• Provide supervision and community-based services to a caseload of pretrial participants
• Rapidly (within 24-48 hours of release) conduct Supervision
• Introduction/Orientation meetings with new participants to review supervision conditions, the reporting schedule (as assigned by level of recidivism risk), and the mandatory methods of communication (face-to-face, telephone, and texts) that will be required under the participant’s supervision plan;
• Work collaboratively with the court and other pretrial staff team to facilitate and ensure caseload participants’ successful completion of mandated supervision appointments and court appearances during the pendency of their legal case
• Review legal and court screening documentation and work with participants to analyze their offending behavior patterns, identifying behavioral changes, need for implementation of supports that may reduce likelihood of any pretrial arrests
• On an ongoing basis, conduct service need assessments with participants to examine psychosocial needs and problems, including the severity of mental and substance use disorders, problems affecting participation, engagement, and continuity in supervision and treatment and individual motivation for treatment
• Link participants to treatment based on their eligibility, preferences and needs and provide escort to community services
• Ensure the timely flow of community outreach and case management activities to meet program goals and objectives
• Utilize problem solving techniques, motivational interviewing as an integral part of the pretrial supervision and case management process approach, to help motivate and engage individuals in any needed process of change
• Provide all services in a manner that is gender-responsive, trauma-informed, and that adheres to the core principles of risk-need-responsivity
• Maintain collaborative relationships with community providers (supported housing providers, Health Homes, care management programs, addiction treatment and mental health providers, peer-run providers, education, vocational training and employment services providers, legal services providers, medical care providers, and family providers)

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 1-2 years of experience, or alternative an Associate’s Degree with a minimum of three years' experience working in human services with individuals with substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and involvement in the criminal justice system
• Extensive knowledge