Gryd Community Intervention Worker As Needed
3 weeks ago
About Us:
**VOALA**
**_Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories_**
**Gang Reduction and Youth Development**
The GRYD Foundation is dedicated to strengthening and stabilizing communities that have been adversely affected by high incidents of violence, poverty and unemployment. The GRYD Foundation focuses on creating safe spaces and providing vital resources and platforms for community members to build trust and healthy relationships with each other and with law enforcement. VOALA provides Case Management and Community Intervention Worker services to the following GRYD locations established by the City of Los Angeles:
- Rampart 2
- Newton 1
- Newton 2
- Southwest 2
**JOB SUMMARY AND PURPOSE**
The Community Intervention Worker (CIW) serves as a liaison between youth, adults and the community to minimize acts of gang violence and to improve community relations. The CIW provides incident response and delivers Transitional Client Services. CIW have strong ties to the local community and existing relationships, being familiar with the gang culture of the target community.
**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
ASSESSMENT/CASE PLANNING: working with Case Managers, delivers Transitional Client Services.
- Serves and engages gang-involved youth or young adults, ages of 14 to 25 years in a GRYD Zone
- Maintain a minimum of 11 FCM clients updated and active
- Maintain a minimum of 5 TCS client updated and active
- Conducts fieldwork with clients to ensure connection with WorkSource, YouthSource and FamilySource services
- Meet weekly with Case Managers
- Participate in planning, meetings and work at Summer Night Lights (SNL) and Fall Friday Nights (FFN) sites
- Strategically plan and work with community to decrease and eliminate gang activity and violence
- Plans strategies to engage local gangs/crews proactively maintain peace via safe passages, and activities
- Work with Law enforcement to create peace in the community
- Transport clients as needed
- Assists with safe passages for youth and families within the community
- Maintain triangle of protocol with LAPD, and GRYD Office
- Participate in 24/7 incident response coverage in assigned GRYD zone.
**Qualifications**:
**REQUIREMENTS**:
- Must be able to pass a fingerprint clearance, background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications
**EXPERIENCE**:
- 3 years' experience working with At-risk families/individuals or gang population
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:
- LAVITA (Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy) certification
- Trained on the GRYD Model of practice and the Efforts to Outcome (ETO) Database
- Basic Microsoft operating system navigation, outlook, word, excel, power-point
- Bilingual (Spanish preferred)
- This employer participates in E-Verify as required by the federal government and will provide the federal government with your Form 1-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S._
- If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (OHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment._
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