CASES keeps people out of jail and prison by engaging them in effective services that help them achieve success in the community. We specialize in serving youth and young adults and people with behavioral health needs. CASES is a leading New York City provider of alternatives to incarceration, a key solution for a fairer criminal justice system. This is an important time at CASES. New York City is on track to create a smaller, safer, and fairer criminal justice system. Working at CASES is more than a job. It is an opportunity to promote justice for New Yorkers with access to high-quality and evidence-based court services.

Reports to: Team Leader

Overview: The FACT team provides mobile community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of individuals with serious mental illnesses, high rates of co-occurring substance use disorders and histories of criminal justice involvement. The FACT team serves consumers on parole, probation, returning to the community from jails and prisons, participating in alternative-to-incarceration and treatment court services and those with histories of high-risk and violent behavior. The team provides 80% of its treatment services in community locations. Peer staff use their lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or substance use to provide direct services to consumers in the community. Peer services include intentional peer support advocacy, engagement, self-help, recovery supports, pre-crisis and crisis supports and transitional supports for consumers leaving hospitals, jails and prisons. Using a person-centered approach to engagement, mental illness, recovery and histories of criminal justice involvement, supports consumers to live safely in the community and develop wellness plans and supportive healthy community networks. 

•    Complete Wellness Recovery Action Plans WRAP, safety, crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans
•    Identify the treatment services consumers should receive based on severity of stage of change, immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s treatment plan
•    Assess and provide services to consumers to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs 
•    Recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan
•    During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the degree risk for poor self-care, social relations and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery, and b) lead the FACT team in daily meetings and weekly clinical meetings around peer support needs and incorporate findings into service plans
•    Use motivational interviewing, recovery and trauma-informed approaches when delivering peer services
•    Involve family and significant others in the consumer’s treatment with the FACT & teams

•    Complete progress notes within 24-hours of delivering a service and ensure progress notes are available to be read in the daily organizational meeting
•    Provide individual peer support and wellness counseling, harm reduction counseling based on motivational interviewing
•    Work effectively with the consumer’s support system, and self-help groups providing services to FACT consumers. 
•    Link consumes to peer support and self-help recovery resources 
•    Achieve the minimum required face to face service contacts in the community each month.
•    Act as advocate and liaison for consumers in income support and access to resources to support service plan goals 
•    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

•    NYS OMH and/or OASAS Certified Peer Specialist certification.
•    At least 2 years of work experience providing peer support to individuals with serious mental illness and criminal justice involvement
•    Graduate of a recognized peer specialist training program such as the Howie the Harp Peer Advocacy and Training Center Peer Specialist Program
•    High school diploma 
•    Lived experience using mental health treatment and/or substance use treatment services
•    Individuals with previous criminal justice experience are eligible
•    Proficiency with computer and electronic health records  
•    Spanish speaking a plus.

Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Salary: Competitive salary, fulltime 35-hour week with excellent benefits.

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.