JustUs Counselor

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