Specialist, Rapid Engagement - New York, United States - Center for Justice Innovation

Center for Justice Innovation

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New York, United States

4 weeks ago

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Description

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation (formerly the Center for Court Innovation) is a non-profit organization that works with communities and justice systems to advance equity, increase safety, and help individuals and communities thrive.

The Center's goal is to identify and resolve as early as possible the challenges that bring people into the criminal and civil legal systems.

It does this in a number of ways—by developing and running programs that reduce the need for incarceration and enhance economic opportunity, conducting original research to identify what works, and sharing what we learn from our programming and research with those seeking to transform the justice system around the world.

The Center is an 800-employee, $100 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn't), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.

Operating Programs

The Center's operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Justice Center, test new ideas, solve difficult problems, and attempt to achieve systemic change within the justice system.

Our projects include community-based violence prevention programs, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based initiatives that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change.

Through this programming, we have produced tangible results like safer streets, reduced incarceration, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.

Research

The Center's research teams are staffed with social scientists, data analysts, and lawyers who are academically-trained or have lived experience and who conduct research in the U.S.

and globally on diverse criminal-legal system and justice issues.

Their work includes evaluating programs and policies; conducting exploratory, community-based studies; and providing research translation and strategic planning for system actors.

The Center has published studies on topics including court and jail reform, intimate partner violence, restorative justice, gun violence, reentry, sixth amendment rights, and progressive prosecution.

The research teams strive to make their work meaningful and actionable to the communities they work with, policymakers, and practitioners.

Policy & Expert Assistance

The Center provides hands-on, planning and implementation assistance to a wide range of jurisdictions in areas of reform such as problem-solving courts (e.g., community courts, treatment courts, domestic violence courts), tribal justice, reducing incarceration and the use of fines/fees and reducing crime and violence.

Our current expert assistance takes many forms, including help with analyzing data, strategic planning and consultation, policy guidance, and hosting site visits to its operating programs in the New York City area.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Launched in 1993, the award-winning Midtown Community Justice Center is one of the country's first problem-solving courts.

Seeking to reduce crime and incarceration and increase public trust in justice, the Midtown Community Justice Center works with neighborhood stakeholders to improve Midtown Manhattan.

The court responds creatively to low-level offending, seeking alternatives that are restorative to the community. In keeping with that goal, Midtown also operates upstream programming to divert adults and young people from prosecution.

The Center for Justice Innovation operates Project Reset, New York City's pre-arraignment diversion program, city-wide.

Operating in collaboration with the New York Police Department, District Attorney's Offices, and the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Project Reset seeks to create a proportionate response to low-level crime by avoiding the use of incarceration and the potential harms associated with the traditional criminal justice process.

Traditionally, Project Reset participants complete programming in advance of their court date in lieu of prosecution.

Recently, the Midtown Community Justice Center began offering Rapid Reset, which offers the same diversion opportunity to Project Reset-eligible people who show up to court.

Midtown Community Justice Center is seeking a Specialist, Rapid Engagement.

The Specialist, Rapid Engagement will serve as the first point of contact for Project Reset-eligible individuals and their legal representation.

The Specialist, Rapid Engagement will lead the program's efforts to rapidly engage clients eligible for pre-arraignment diversion referred from the court for same day programming in collaboration with staff from Reset partners and the Center's downtown Manhattan project, Manhattan Justice Opportunities.

The Specialist, Rapid Engagement will conduct intakes and assessment