The mission of CASES 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.

• We are committed to helping people—regardless of their past choices, present struggles, or future obstacles—to build the capacity and courage to change their lives.

• We tailor our services to each individual’s unique needs, risks, and strengths and believe the most effective programs are evidence-based, family-focused, and trauma-informed.
• We are committed to engaging the community by leveraging partnerships and resources to maximize our clients’ opportunities for success.

Our team:

We recognize that each CASES staff member is critical. We are a team strengthened by our diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents and united by a common purpose.

We are determined to continuously enhance our knowledge and skills, evaluate our results, and learn from our successes and failures.

Our impact on the community:

We believe public safety is best protected through alternatives to incarceration that combine accountability and support with empowerment and opportunity.

We are committed—through continuous innovation and the strategic disruption of ineffective responses to crime, addiction, and mental illness—to creating solutions for some of the city’s most difficult public safety and public health challenges.

Reports to: Team Leader

Overview: Manhattan ACT team provides mobile community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of 68 adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders living mainly in Upper Manhattan (Harlem and Inwood).The masters level substance use specialist provides 80% of services in consumers’ homes, shelters, and other community locations. The specialist leads the team’s integrated treatment addressing the needs of consumers a various stages of recovery. The integrated substance use services are delivered individually and also through group treatment. The specialist will use assertive outreach and engagement strategies, motivational interviewing and stage-wise interventions that target readiness for change. Specific responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

•    Complete the ACT comprehensive assessment and lead the assessment of the addiction related components of the assessment 
•    Identify the treatment services consumers should receive in ACT based on severity of substance use diagnosis, stage of change and immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan
•    During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the degree risk for substance use and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery, and b) lead the ACT team in daily meetings and weekly clinical meetings around addiction issues and incorporate findings into service plans
•    Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others
•    Develop comprehensive service plans and 6-month service plan reviews in collaboration with the consumer and the consumer’s support system
•    Run weekly co-occurring disorder treatment group
•    Involve family and significant others in the consumer’s treatment with the ACT team
•    Complete 6-month comprehensive assessment and crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and significant data
•    Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, harm reduction and substance abuse counseling based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral responses to mental illness and substance abuse
•    Work effectively with the consumer’s support system, education and vocational training providers, and self-help groups providing services to ACT consumers. Link consumes to self-help recovery groups
•    Complete at least 68 face to face treatment contacts in the community each month
•    Direct standards for toxicology screens, along with team psychiatrist and in accordance with Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) orders
•    Assess and provide supports to consumer to address needs for problem-solving, wellness self-management, housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care. 
•    Act as advocate and liaison for consumers in securing emergency detox and rehabilitation care, and other community supports that promote integrated dual disorder treatment  
•    Evaluate, on a continuing basis, use of services and expected outcomes
•    Involve family, significant others, and housing providers in treatment
•    Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis
•    Provide 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community
•    Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice
 

•    CASAC with a LMSW, LCSW, or LMHC  
•    At least three years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders 
•    Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, stage-wise approach to treatment of substance abuse and serious mental illness
•    Extensive knowledge of either Assertive Community Treatment, community integrated treatment, support services, and resources 
•    Highly organized and self-motivated
•    Proficient in computers and EHRs.

Benefits: Here at CASES we offer benefits that will assist you in making the most of your career and your life. Our programs include health and wellness insurance which is offered through Aetna. A retirement 403(b) plan is held with Principal, education, and training. Additionally, our portable ancillary benefits are offered through Aflac, Legal Shield, and ADP Flexible spending account; which is then deducted through payroll along with commuter benefits, additional short-term disability, cancer, additional income protection, hospitalization coverage, and identity theft protection.

In one document, attach your cover letter and resume in PDF or Word format. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.