Intensive Prevention Services (IPS) Case Manager

Department/Program: Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network	Link to apply: IPS Case Manager
Location: Philadelphia, PA	Travel required: Yes
Salary range: $23.63 hourly	Position type: Full Time

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 IPS program seeks to prevent youth from committing delinquent or criminal conduct through family intervention and by providing site-based programming designed to equip youth with strategies that will foster critical thinking and positive choices. The Case Manager helps guide the IPS participant down a path that will effectuate these goals.

The individual selected for this position will provide home-based services and develop resources and activities that may need to take into consideration Police Diversion, Informal Adjustment, or Youth Aid Panel mandates and any other program designed to prevent court involvement.   In some situations, the case manager will act as a liaison between the youth partner and his/her school, while encouraging caregivers to actively participate in the educational needs of youth.

This position will require frequent communication with external and internal entities  including, but not limited to extensive contact with the Juvenile Justice System, Children Youth and Family Services/Department of Human Services, Family Court, Youth Aid Panels, etc.

 

Full time benefits package including:

●        Medical, Dental, and Vision	●        Short-term Disability (STD)
●        Long-term Disability (LTD)	●        Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
●        403(b) Retirement Plan	●        Life Insurance
●        Flexible Spending Accounts	●        PTO and 14 Paid Holidays per year

 

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.