CCIP Advocate

To promote community safety through services that reduce drug abuse and violence, as well as to help at-risk youth develop positive alternatives that will return them to the mainstream of society. Since its inception in 1989, PAAN has utilized its expertise to meet these objectives through street-based community outreach and intervention programs.

Promote positive transformation through community outreach and creating programs that prevent juvenile delinquency and adult criminality. We focus on job readiness, job training and mentoring.

The Community Crisis Intervention Team concept is based on the work of PAAN’s predecessor,  Philadelphia’s Crisis Intervention Network. This nationally-recognized agency, founded in the mid-1970s by James Mills and Bennie Swans, effectively addressed gang violence, drug abuse and drug trafficking and was credited with dramatically decreasing gang-related deaths in Philadelphia for over a decade. The Community Crisis Intervention Program (CCIP) aims to replicate Crisis Intervention Network’s approach to combat today’s community violence.   The Model will use credible messengers who are indigenous to Philadelphia’s most violent neighborhoods as outreach workers with the mission of fostering meaningful relationships in these communities, steering those involved in criminal activities into alternative positive choices, mediating neighborhood conflicts, and responding to neighborhood crises.

The Community Crisis Intervention Program Advocate reports to the CCIP Coordinator, and is responsible for serving Philadelphia’s most violent communities. Each member is assigned to a team which serves different geographic areas of Philadelphia to prevent neighborhood shootings, killings, and other violent acts. Team members work to safely resolve and or prevent neighborhood conflicts and aim to reduce and prevent violence through rapport building and conflict mediation services.

Full time benefits package including:

The candidate for this position may be subject to any of the following screenings as part of the pre-employment process: Motor Vehicle Report (MVR), PA Criminal Background Check, PA Child Abuse Clearance, FBI fingerprint, and drug/alcohol screen.