Job Title: Court Representative

Job Summary:

CASES is a New York City agency at the forefront of the intersection between behavioral health and the criminal justice system. Our mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. The CASES Court Services department services court mandates or endorsed programming at all points in the criminal legal process. CASES operates, alternative to detention (ATD) and alternative to incarceration (ATI) community-based programs that are facilitated by the NYS Office of Court Administration (OCA) judiciary. CASES interfaces with multiple stakeholders to support these ATD and ATI program options for thousands of defendants in multiple boroughs. Specifically, the arraignment team screens approximately 10,000 defendants a year for ATD and ATI programs, Supervised Release and Newstart. Additionally, the ATI Intake Assessment Team screens 500 people per year to divert people into 3 (three) CASES community-based programs: Reframing Opportunity Alternatives and Resilience (ROAR), Nathaniel Community Success (NCS), and Nathaniel Assertive Community Treatment (NACT). All Court Services teams are dedicated to the CASES mission and facilitating release and positive court outcomes.

Salary: The salary for the role is $55,000

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Wednesday – Sunday 5pm to 1am.

Location Address: 100 Centre Street

Working environment: In-office

What you will be doing:

• Court Representative will develop and maintain excellent professional relationships with judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, and other court partners to facilitate program admissions and maintain CASES’ credibility in the Manhattan Criminal and Supreme Courts
• Determine a person’s legal eligibility for SRP with the review of arrest case information, RAP sheet, and attorney recommendations, ensuring admitted participants receive the appropriate supervision level when admission is ordered by the judge.
• Conduct screenings and assessment interviews to explain SRP, administer screening tools, and formulate immediate recommendations for supervision and case management services.
• Court Representative will ensure participants understand the conditions of their pretrial supervision release and the expectations about participation in SRP.
• Achieve monthly intake targets and perform to quality pretrial standards.
• Accompany participants to court appearances and advocate to judges, verbally and through written court reports, for participants to maintain continuity in SRP.
• Court Representative will effectively manage crises to ensure participant safety and well-being.
• Ensure timely, complete, and accurate documentation in the case record database including collecting and tracking participant demographics, intake, re-arrest cases, and warrants.
• Court Representative will facilitate effective collaboration with SRP staff delivering services in the borough-based offices to ensure the Court receives accurate information and participants satisfy conditions of supervision.
• Provide timely and accurate notification to the Court about participant non-compliance (when participants are missing/absconded, fail to report, and are rearrested).
• Provide culturally competent and anti-racist services in the Court 1) in accordance with CASES’ policies and the delivery of excellent court services to address the needs of youth and young adults, adults, and individuals with behavioral health needs and 2) that are responsive to the race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and criminal legal history of program participants.
• Participate in supervision, case review and staff meetings, and in-service trainings to develop clinical, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed, and legal system competence.
• Work a regular and obscure schedule and adhere to schedule changes to ensure SRP consistently maintains coverage for all court shifts; perform other related duties as assigned by supervisors and senior staff.
• Ability to function effectively in a high-paced, high-stakes environment and work independently.