Supervisor STEPS Criminalized Survivors Program

Overview

About Rising Ground and STEPS to End Family Violence: Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, Rising Ground provides caring support and proven paths to positive change, helping children, adults, and families rise above adversity. Each year Rising Ground is a positive force in the lives of more than 25,000 individuals. STEPS to End Family Violence - Rising Ground’s anti-intimate partner violence program - offers a variety of trauma-informed, anti-oppressive programming focused on the prevention of intimate partner violence; advocacy and healing for survivors and children impacted by abusive partner behavior; accountability classes for young men who have caused harm to their intimate partner; and training intended to increase awareness of the epidemic of gender-based violence. Since the program's founding in 1986, STEPS has been deliberately dedicated to engaging in work that is innovative and deeply survivor-centered and works to promote the idea that support for survivors of IPV that is not aligned with anti-oppressive, anti-racist, feminist/womanist principles tends to unintentionally mimic systems of oppression, and is ultimately, re-traumatizing and ineffective.

About the Criminalized Survivors Program: For over 30 years, the STEPS Criminalized Survivors Program has offered comprehensive clinical and legal support services to survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) or other forms of gender-based violence (GBV) who have been criminalized for their efforts to survive or resist abusive partner behavior. We support survivors facing felony and/or misdemeanor charges in any borough. In addition, STEPS CSP has a designated advocate/counselor serving criminalized survivors on site at the Manhattan and Brooklyn Family Justice Centers, and a Training Team that helps lead the City's whole response to criminalized survivors.

Rising Ground 

Founded as an orphanage in 1831, Rising Ground has been at the forefront of evolving community needs. Driven by the belief that each of us can thrive when life has hope and opportunity, 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 50 programs in 70 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. Rising Ground is headquartered in downtown Brooklyn. 

Benefits

At Rising Ground, we encourage everyone to live a healthier life. When you enroll in health care benefits — medical, dental, and vision care, you and your family can take advantage of each plan’s preventive services, which will help everyone to stay well. Another way to remain healthy is to eat right and keep active. Ultimately, we all benefit when we make the right choices, whether through diet and exercise or health care services. You can also take advantage of other important benefits, including life and accident, disability benefits, the retirement savings plan, and the employee assistance program.

Responsibilities

• Provide consistent, reliable and relationally grounded supervision to at least half of the direct service ATI staff, and graduate students, as needed;
• Work collaboratively to meet the administrative and reporting needs of the ATI contract;
• Provide survivor-centered counseling and advocacy to a small caseload of ATI clients;
• Manage intakes and referrals
• Work closely with CSP Director to plan and facilitate weekly team meetings and annual retreats;
• Collaborate with leadership to monitor and ensure quality of ATI services;
• Facilitate group supervision using Seeking Safety, or in combination with other evidence-based interventions.
• Other tasks as assigned by STEPS leadership.

Qualifications

• LMSW, LMHC or other relevant, graduate degree required;
• Strong and dynamic counseling, advocacy, and supervisory skills;
• Nuanced understanding of the dynamics of gender-based violence and systems of oppression;
• Meaningful commitment to practicing from an anti-oppressive, healing-centered stance;
• 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.

Salary $71,500 per year

EOE

Salary : $71,500