School Safety (Seattle/CD) Community Violence Interrupter

About Us

What We Stand For

We exist to eliminate the need for the criminal legal system for youth and young adults. To do this, we create alternatives to incarceration for youth and young adults based on committed relationships centered on love, compassion, and consistency. We use community to heal community, planting seeds of hope, self-respect and vision to unlock the promise of our youth while fighting to dismantle the systems of oppression that threaten to take that promise away.

Why We Matter

Over the last 20 years, we have seen a sharp decline in the number of young people in detention across King County. But even as the overall number decreased, our juvenile legal system has had an increasingly and disproportionately harmful impact on youth of color, particularly Black youth. While only 10% of King County’s 2 million residents are Black, they now make up almost half of the detention population on any given day and more than half of felony offenses.

In the last three years, Community Passageways has worked with nearly 200 young people with felony charges with the aim of diverting their charges and keeping them in the community. In the end, most of them spent no time in detention and the average young person saw an 80% reduction in their length of sentence. The young people kept in the community through their dedication and our support have gone on to enroll in college, start businesses, graduate from high school, and help rebuild our communities.

Who We Are

We are a family born from the community we serve. The lived experiences of staff prepare them to act as credible messengers and Ambassadors. Our Ambassadors work with heart, humility, and compassion to lead community and school-based healing circles, individual and family case management, court advocacy, and youth leadership opportunities.

Job Description

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Outreach, the Community Violence Interrupter will be assigned to schools to build trust and foster relationships with students, families, and community members. The Community Violence Interrupters mediate conflicts, work to prevent incidents, and provide a safe space for students to turn to when needed. Their presence helps create a sense of security and support, especially in situations where conflict might arise.

Essential Responsibilities

The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodation will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship. The Employer retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

• Violence Interrupters are required to adhere to strict and unified protocols.
• Be on call for Critical Incident notification and deployment to incidents including community locations and hospitals with specific protocols:
• Be willing to provide Critical Incident assessment and Violence Interruption on-site.
• Participate in rigorous team pre-brief to plan for safe and protocol-driven deployments
• Review and refine the protocol
• Develop team plan for specific “hotspot” remediation
• Confirm coverage and staffing plan
• Participate in team debriefs follow-up to engage and support youth/young adults directly impacted by violence
• Participate in weekly “hot spot” remediation efforts in partnership with Outreach Workers
• Keep track of youth engaged so that Managers/Leads can refer the youth into the suite of services.
• Participate as an integral member of a multiple-team communication strategy
• Attend weekly supervision meetings to review workload, highlight successes, and find solutions to challenges
• Attend mandatory team meetings to go over protocols, hot-spot remediation, and social network analysis of youth engaged or involved in new incidents
• Provide and maintain records for data and tracking reports
• Attend all required training and professional development opportunities
• Maintain confidentiality as per agency guidelines
• Other duties as assigned
  

Requirements

Requirements:

• A clear criminal background check is required for all positions within our school district or working directly with youth/minors.
• While on the job in the community providing services, you will be in uniform (shirts, hoodies, badges, walkie-talkies, etc.)
• While on duty, you will be on call for potential incidences of violence including hospital support, vigils, funerals, and community events, including on evenings and weekends.
• Ability to walk long distances at a time with up to 30lbs of equipment.
  
  

Preferred Experience Or Skills

• Experience with de-escalation, mediation, and harm-reduction efforts is required.
• Experience and/or expertise in the area of violence prevention and intervention, or trauma-informed support services among high-risk populations is required.
• Lived experience of the impact of gun violence
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to safeguard and maintain individual records to keep participant files complete, confidential, and in order.
• Basic knowledge for Microsoft 365
• Reliable Transportation
  
  

Preferred Competencies

• Commit to understand deeply and seek to dismantle the systems of oppression impacting communities of color
• Value the intrinsic worth of young people and their unlimited potential
• Maintain a restorative justice orientation in relationship to staff, partners and participants
• Be a self-aware (know your strengths and weaknesses), engaged and adaptable team player
• Take ownership of projects, be self-motivated, and practice independent problem solving
• Be flexible about changing priorities and manage competing deadlines
  
  

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• 401k
• Aetna Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Insurance
• 100k employer paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Discount Program
• Fin Fit- Financial literacy services
• Metlife Legal Plans
• Generous PTO
  
  

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