Legal Systems Advocate Supervisor - Belltown

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Legal Systems Advocate Supervisor

Location: Belltown

Salary Range: $90,500-$98,500

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm

Working at Evergreen Treatment Services makes a big difference in our community!

• ETS has been working to transform the lives of individuals and their communities through innovative and effective addiction and social services in Western Washington for over 50 years. Learn more about our mission and values.
• Change begins within. We strive to foster and sustain a diverse and inclusive community within our organization. Find out how we are working to achieve racial equity, health equity, and community justice.
• Our Clinic Services and REACH teams bring critical professional expertise and heartfelt compassion to the work they do every day to serve our most vulnerable community members. Check out the compelling stories told by our patients, clients, and staff members that provide more information and a clear picture regarding our organization’s essential work.

The REACH Program of Evergreen Treatment Services works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. The REACH mission is to foster community health and safety through outreach, relationship, healing interventions and systems advocacy for people who use drugs. REACH provides outreach-based-care coordination, multidisciplinary clinical services, and supports to access and maintain housing.

All services are based in principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving through stages of change in their lives.

REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals’ lives. We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren’t just surviving, but able to thrive.

REACH offers an array of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily accessible treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions.

The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele. REACH values diversity of lived experience, is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor. People who have been impacted by the criminal legal system are encouraged to apply.

This dynamic position plays an important role in helping ETS accomplish our mission!

• The Legal System Advocate Supervisor role is part of the REACH team that supports ETS’ mission through providing administrate support to case managers by staying current on legal advocacy requirements and processes, maintaining updated paperwork, engaging in high level communication, and maintaining effective collaboration with diversion prosecutorial partners and community stakeholders. The Legal System Advocate will also be available to case managers as needed for legal advocacy consultation when questions arise.
• The nature of this position is extremely independent, requiring excellent interpersonal relationship and communication skills, organization and time management skills, a deep understanding of the impact of criminal legal system practices on marginalized communities, the harm reduction model of care, creative thinking, multitasking, and conflict resolution skills. This is a brand-new position to the LEAD and diversion programming ’s an innovative position that will inform our organization in developing internal comprehensive individualized case management systems that ensure equity in service delivery and developing best practices.
• The position is (hybrid/full-time onsite), and the days…