About this opportunity
Rising Ground lists this JustUs Counselor opportunity in jamaica, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About the Role
JustUs is an ACS-funded Gender Responsive Diversion Program facilitated by Rising Gound. This program is a holistic, gender-responsive program for girls, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary youth (TGNBNC) youth who are involved, or at high risk of involvement, in the youth justice system. The project - which is grounded in the tenets of healing-centered, anti-oppressive practice - brings together highly skilled individual coaching; evidence-based clinical interventions; opportunities for young people to engage in group-based activities; economic empowerment skill building; and space where young people can come together to build community. All elements of the project are intentionally designed to support young people in cultivating their leadership skills; building their self-reliance; forging healthy social relationships; developing diverse strategies to avoid engaging in criminalized behavior/activities; and greatly enhancing their educational experiences and work opportunities.
Job Responsibilities: The full-time Counselor will provide youth-driven, healing-centered, anti-oppressive, clinical and emotional support and advocacy to young people engaged in the project. This is an exciting and demanding opportunity for an emerging therapist looking to participate in the expansion of a program that is designed to become a national model. Core responsibilities include:
Connect with15-20young people within the project and serve as their primary point of contact throughout their engagement in the program.
Intentionally and regularly engage all young people in weekly hour-long individual sessions
With each young person, co-construct individualized engagement plans and assess and revise the throughout the length of the young person's engagement with the program
Engage in collaboration and case coordination with all program staff and a vast network of stakeholders
Participate in weekly supervision, team meetings, group supervision, and attend other required meetings as required
Maintain program records, case files, and funder reports with accuracy and attention to timeliness detail
Other duties are required
Qualifications LMSW, LCSW, LMHC or other clinical licensed required
Clinical supervision offered for licensure (LCSW/LMHC)
Highly organized, self-motivated worker who can easily manage competing demands
Creative problem-solver who anticipates challenges and seizes opportunities for collaboration
Able to implement vision, think strategically, exercise good judgment, and lead change
High level of self-awareness and ability to give and receive feedback well
Impeccable attention to detail, systems, and processes
Ability to work with flexibility, independence, accountability, passion, and humor
Meaningful commitment to practicing from a healing-centered, anti- oppressive stance
Lived experience within systems that impact the young people who will be involved in the project including the youth justice and criminal legal system strongly preferred but not required
Supervisory Responsibility
No
Work Environment:
Office
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
Full-Time/10:30am-6:30pm
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Worksite address
jamaica, NY, 11406, US
Who can apply
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