Anti - Human Trafficking Response Coordinator - Rising Ground, Inc

Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity, and each year, Rising Ground is a positive force in the lives of more than 25,000 individuals. We do this through 101 programs in 138 locations throughout New York City and Westchester. Our strong belief and commitment to diversity shows not just through our work with supported persons, but is integral to the building of a strong staff that reflects the communities we serve.

The Anti-Human Trafficking Response Coordinator will address the complex challenges associated with human trafficking, specifically by targeting vulnerable youth. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of how a social services organization screens and supports young people who are involved or at-risk for involvement in human trafficking. The Coordinator will spearhead efforts to prevent, identify and respond to potential and known survivors of human trafficking. The coordinator will take on a five-prong approach that includes: training and consultation; risk assessment and safety planning; crisis and clinical interventions; mentoring and counseling; and community outreach, workshops, and collaborations. They will work alongside existing Rising Ground programs that provide support to young individuals encompassing girls, transgender youth, non-binary youth, and gender-expansive youth, ages 12 to 21. This unique position will also include opportunities to collaborate with law enforcement to bring about a positive cultural shift. Through this multi-prong approach, we hope to enhance access to support for young people, amplify knowledge within our staff, mitigate the criminalization of young people, and educate the communities of young people at risk for human trafficking.

• Engage staff from Rising Ground’s programs and conduct comprehensive assessments to identify specific staff training needs.
• Craft and implement training sessions tailored to the unique requirements of each program setting
• Spearhead the implementation of a systematic screening and assessment tool to gather comprehensive information about a youth's susceptibility to, or current involvement in, human trafficking activities
• Train Rising Ground staff to utilize the assessment tool and interpret results
• In collaboration with Rising Ground’s Early RAPP and RAPP programs, provide school personnel the necessary supports, such as crisis intervention or counseling
• Provide short term intervention individual and/or group counseling to young people identified by Rising Ground staff
• Collaborate with additional stakeholders regarding intervention planning
• Develop and maintain a referral base of community resources for survivors of human trafficking
• Conduct ongoing outreach, engaging Rising Ground staff, as well staff at our network of New York City middle and high schools
• Organize impactful monthly community workshops, tailored for various stakeholders, including Rising Ground staff, parents/caregivers, youth, and public-school educators and administrators.
• Collaborate with local law enforcement in areas where youth are at risk of involvement in human trafficking, aiming to instigate a positive cultural shift.
• Maintain program records, case files, and funder reports with accuracy and attention to timeliness detail;
• Work collaboratively with program staff and interdepartmentally with other Rising Ground programs
• Other duties are required.

• MSW, MHC-LP or other graduate clinical degree preferred;

• LMSW, LCSW, and LMHC preferred, clinical supervision offered for licensure (LCSW/LMHC);

• Highly organized, self-motivated worker who can easily manage competing demands;

• Creative problem-solver who anticipates challenges and seizes opportunities for collaboration;

• Ability to communicate effectively and strong interpersonal skills;

• Able to implement vision, think strategically, exercise good judgment, and lead change;

• High level of self-awareness and ability to give and receive feedback well.

• Impeccable attention to detail, systems, and processes;

• Ability to work with flexibility, independence, accountability, passion, and humor;

• Meaningful commitment to practicing from a healing-centered, anti- oppressive stance;

• Lived experience within systems that impact the young people who are involved in the programs supported strongly preferred but not required.

Hybrid (2) remote, (3) in-office.

(35) hour work week.

Benefit package (Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, 401k matching).

Salary Range $70k - $80k/Annually.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
It is the policy of Rising Ground that the Agency wholly complies with equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, alienate, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.