GRYD Community Intervention Worker Part Time

GRYD Community Intervention Worker Part Time

Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories

Volunteers of America is a non-profit human services organization committed to serving people in need, strengthening families, and building communities. VOA - LA provides a variety of social services to Los Angeles area communities such as Head Start programs, Upward Bound college prep programs, veterans’ services, homeless shelters, low‑income housing program as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Learn more la.org.

PAY RATE: $27.41 - $28.85 per hour

BENEFITS: VOALA offers competitive medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

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. The CIW has strong ties to the local community and existing relationships, being familiar with the gang culture of the target community.

Assessment / Case Planning: working with Case Managers, delivers Transitional Client Services.

• Serves and engages gang‑involved youth or young adults, ages 14 to 25 years in a GRYD Zone
• Maintain a minimum of 11 FCM clients updated and active
• Maintain a minimum of 5 TCS clients updated and active
• Conduct fieldwork with clients to ensure connection with Work Source, Youth Source and Family Source services
• Follow all phases of case management, applying Social Embeddedness Tool (SET), data entry into Entry to Outcomes (ETO) on client activities and progress
• 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
  • Plan strategies to engage local gangs/crews proactively to maintain peace via safe passages and activities
  • Work with Law enforcement to create peace in the community
  • Transport clients as needed
  • Assist 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.

• Delivery of Transitional Client Services – maintain a minimum of 11 FCM clients updated and active, maintain a minimum of 5 TCS clients updated and active, conduct fieldwork with clients to ensure connection with Work Source, Youth Source and Family Source services
• Strategic efforts at gang reduction in community – plan and execute gang reduction events and activities, conduct safe passage efforts
• Maintain triangle of protocol with LAPD, and GRYD Office.
• Advocacy for participants before other agencies/community settings
• 24/7 gang incident response coverage.
• Other duties as required and are subject to change at any time.

• Must be able to pass a fingerprint clearance, background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications.

• 3 years’ experience working with at‑risk families/individuals or gang population.

• Trained on the GRYD Model of practice and the Efforts to Outcome (ETO) Database.
• Basic Microsoft operating system navigation, Outlook, Word, Excel, Power‑Point.

Volunteers of America is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This employer participates in E‑Verify as required by the federal government and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑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 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 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.