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About the Role
The Division of Youth and Family Justice (DYFJ) is seeking a Director of Placement and Permanency for Close to Home (CTH) and Non-secure Detention (NSD). This role will be responsible for the direction, administration, and coordination of the CTH Placement and Permanency Specialists, ensuring effective services and programs for youth in the juvenile justice system.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the CTH Placement and Permanency Specialist team.
- Ensure cases are assigned to a Placement and Permanency Specialist for review and monitoring after youths have been placed.
- Ensure youth on juvenile delinquency placements have permanency and discharge plans, including regular conferences to address plans and barriers for discharge.
- Approve movements between placement facilities, waivers for longer lengths of stay, filing of Extension of Placement petitions, and revocations of youth back into placement.
- Oversee the writing and submission of CTH reports, petitions, and other documents to the Family Court.
- Collaborate and communicate with Close to Home stakeholders, including juvenile justice system parties, Department of Education, mental health providers, prosecutors, defense counsel, probation officers, judges, and court clerks.
- Collaborate with placement providers to ensure permanency planning for every youth and intervene in crises within placement facilities.
- Maintain an ongoing case tracking and data collection system of all youth going to placement, including discharge and placement end dates.
- Ensure provider agencies establish contact with clients per program protocol and are assigned a role in the case expeditiously.
- Work with CTH Placement and Permanency Specialists to encourage active family participation in treatment goals.
- Provide ongoing data reports.
- Conduct meetings and develop communication protocols with CTH placement agencies, stakeholders, and others involved in Close to Home.
- Coordinate comprehensive staff training programs and provide ongoing professional development opportunities for staff.
Requirements
- Section 424-A of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorized agency to inquire whether a candidate for employment with child-caring responsibilities has been the subject of a child abuse and maltreatment report.
Experience Level
- Two years in an administrative capacity
Education Level
- Master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work
- Master's degree from an accredited college in sociology, psychology, education, public administration or a closely related field
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000.00-$100,000.00
- USD 68214 - USD 223299
About the Company
- The Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) protects and promotes the safety and well-being of children and families through child welfare and juvenile justice services and community supports.
- ACS manages community-based supports and foster care services, and provides subsidized child care vouchers.
- ACS child protection staff respond to allegations of child maltreatment.
- In juvenile justice, ACS oversees detention, placement and programs for youth in the community.
- The Division of Youth and Federal Justice (DYFJ) provides a wide range of services and programs for youth at every stage of the juvenile justice process.
- DYFJ's goals are to build stronger and safer communities by preventing juveniles from entering the New York City's juvenile justice system, provide therapeutic treatment and services to youth in our custodial care, and help juveniles access the tools they need to leave the justice system for good.
- DYFJ strives to help families and young people by providing supportive services that are responsive to the needs of individual youth and families.
- Close to Home is a residential placement and aftercare program for New York City youth who are adjudicated delinquent by the NYC Family Court and ordered into placement.
- ACS contracts with community-based providers to operate 25 non-secure and 6 limited secure placement programs.
- DYFJ oversees a network of five contracted providers that operate a total of 7 non-secure detention facilities across New York City.
Equal Opportunity
- The Administration for Children’s Services is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing access to all individuals.
- The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.