Job Description
Reentry Navigator
$23.00- $24.00/ hr
The Reentry Navigator provides transitional, substance addiction recovery and community reintegration support services to justice-involved women and nonbinary individuals re-entering the community from incarceration and/or under community supervision. The Navigator works with program participants to develop and support collaborative individual and/or family service plans focused on recovery, relapse prevention, harm reduction, and wellness, and coordinating supported linkage to community-based resources and providers. Serve as role model, mentor, and advocate.
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma/GED
Responsibilities
- Substance Addiction and Recovery Services: Utilize knowledge of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment continuum and recovery pathways to assist participants in reducing harm while supporting recovery and wellness goals. Support participants in accessing addiction recovery services, including peer recovery support, outpatient treatment, medical detox, safe use, and harm reduction services.
- Case Management and Care Coordination: Provide enhanced case management and care coordination aimed to help participants achieve their service plan goals, address barriers to recovery, and support their transition into community-based care. Coordinate care with a network of established programs and partner organizations.
- Service Coordination and Community Linkages: Assist participants with service provision and coordination, including linkages to recovery and wellness resources, mental health services, housing, healthcare, and peer recovery networks. Ensure participants have access to a continuum of care that supports recovery goals.
- Outreach and Mobile Services: Deliver mobile and outreach services in both community and institutional settings, meeting participants where they are and ensuring they have access to basic needs, community resources, and wrap around supports throughout their reintegration process.
- Crisis Support and Relapse Prevention: Offer crisis intervention, participate in relapse prevention planning, and collaborate with participants on developing individualized and family service plans (ISPs) tailored to identified needs and goals.
- Peer Support Integration: Encourage participants to engage with peer recovery networks and support systems. Work closely with community-based recovery coaches to ensure participants have ongoing access to peer-led services and self-help resources.
- Client Advocacy and Barrier Resolution: Advocate for participants by addressing external barriers such as legal challenges, housing, childcare and access to treatment. Assist with navigating healthcare systems and securing essential recovery and parenting supports.
- Comprehensive Case Management: Initiate case management upon intake, facilitating ongoing service coordination and assisting participants in achieving their recovery and wellness goals through collaborative service planning.
- Discharge Planning and Aftercare: Ensure comprehensive discharge planning, including access to stable housing, continued recovery supports, and peer support for long-term sobriety and community reintegration.
- Crisis Intervention and Peer-Driven Resources: Provide crisis intervention, support harm reduction and safe use efforts, and facilitate referrals to appropriate levels of care, including peer-led recovery programs and support networks.
- Perform additional duties and job assignments as directed.
Qualifications
- Lived expertise with intersecting substance use and legal involvement
- Minimum of three years of sustained recovery
- LADC or CADAC licensure preferred
- Understanding of many paths to recovery and wellness, and of harm reduction principles
- Strong knowledge of substance use disorders and addiction, recovery pathways, and peer support systems
- Experience working with justice-involved individuals, especially in the context of addiction and recovery
- Expertise navigating community-based resources and supports
- Capacity to develop strong working relationships with community and justice providers
- Ability to manage caseloads, provide individualized and family service planning, and work within a multidisciplinary team
- Commitment to Advocates values and mission
- Must successfully pass background checks.
- Must have a valid driver's license, safe driving record, automobile insurance and access to vehicle to be used as directed and when needed for transport.
Advocates is committed to cultivating a diverse and welcoming community where everyone feels respected and valued. Advocates fosters a culture of inclusion that celebrates and promotes diversity along multiple dimensions, including race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, partnered status, age, national origin, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, culture, and experience.
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