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Outreach Worker: BRAG Jobs in New York, New York, USA at Good Shepherd Services
Position: Outreach Worker: BRAG Northwest
Location: New York
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Cure Violence Bronx works with community residents, businesses and community-based organizations to reduce and prevent shootings and killings in defined hot spots within the 52nd Precinct, which comprises:
Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Norwood, Bronx Park, and University Heights. The Outreach Worker develops strong relationships with people in the neighborhood who are known to be or likely to be involved in gun violence, to learn about and mediate issues and conflicts with the goal of stopping escalation to gun violence. He/she must be comfortable on the streets when and where violence is likely to erupt, and must have and maintain the confidence of gang members and other perpetrators of violence.
Reports to:Outreach Worker Supervisor, B.R.A.G. NORTHWEST Cure Violence Bronx
Hours:40 hours/week, Non-Exempt
Major
Duties
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Maintain an active caseload of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 15 participants at all times.
Perform Admission Criteria Screenings for approval.
Conduct frequent contact with participants on a monthly basis as follows:
Three (3) visits in or near home.
Three (3) additional face-to-face meetings.
Eight (8) substantive phone conversations.
Develop Risk Reduction Plans and track progress for update.
Serve as linkages and support for participants to enhance their use of opportunities and provider programs in the community (i.e., job training/placement, GED/TASC, Therapy, Drug Treatment, Mentoring, etc.) and case manage their referrals.
Leadadvocacyfor participants when necessary.
Build network with other outreach program workers.
Form relationships with the highest risk persons in the community, as well as the people who know them.
Be present on the streets with such individuals to develop relationships of trust and safety, from which to be able to intervene in the moment if necessary and to learn about emerging conflicts.
Acquire information on potential conflicts in the area, attending or convening gang mediation meetings and working with perpetrators and gang leaders to resolve conflicts that arise between gangs or individuals.
Meet with high-risk individuals on a daily basis to discuss problems that arise.
Provide age-appropriate engagement and interaction with youth and young adults encountered and adhere to all agency guidelines and ethics regarding treatment of participants.
Help prevent retaliatory shootings by meeting with a shooting’s victim and the victim’s family in the hospital, or elsewhere, to calm the situation, providing mediation and assistance, including referral to any relevant support and mediation resources, and remain in contact.
Mobilize the community around violence reduction by distributing publiceducationmaterials, developing relationships with key community leaders, and attending community responses to shootings.
Keep a daily log of contacts with high-risk individuals and document conflicts resolved information.
Enter all such information timely into the prescribed database on handheld devices or office computers.
Be in contact with Outreach Worker Supervisor and/or Program Director at all times to be accountable for effective use of time and to receive guidance and direction.
Provide 24 hour on call availability as directed by program supervisors.
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Title: Outreach Worker: BRAG
Company: Good Shepherd Services
Location: New York, New York, USA
Category: Social Work, Non-Profit & Social Impact
