Re-Entry Coordinator

Requirements

• Manage relationships within detention to coordinate and support the development of service plans and discharge plans for youth in detention.
• Establish relationships with community-based organizations to develop a network of providers that will work to assist youth and their families in connecting to resources in the community upon the youth’s release.
• Engage youth in the identification of their individual strengths, needs, and interests.
• Coordinate with DYFJ case management, programs, and detention services staff, as well as DYFJ-partner and contracted health services and DOE staff.
• Ensure youth are exposed to services that address their needs, including mental health, medical, literacy, substance use, emotional regulation, conflict mediation, life skills, prosocial development and enrichment, recreation and vocational and career support.
• Collaborate with other City agencies, including the Department of Youth and Community and Development, Department of Education, and the Department of Correction for planning and continuity purposes.
• Perform field visits as needed to coordinate with other stakeholders to ensure continuity in the areas of medical and mental health, education, career readiness, and prosocial programming, and promote greater family engagement to support continuity for kids as they are being released from detention.
• Participate in detention, milieu-based meetings, conferences, team meetings, and weekly program meetings to support the planning, development of programs across youth living spaces and other designated programming space.
• Coordinate the care, behavior plans and discharge recommendations for youth that will enable them to return to the community with reduced risk of reoffending.
• Prepare and maintain reports by utilizing information obtained from forms, service plans, discharge plans, youth surveys, databases, and other sources.
• Perform Case Management duties as assigned.