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State of Vermont Adolescent Services Unit Director in Waterbury, Vermont

This job was posted by https://www.vermontjoblink.com : For more information, please see: https://www.vermontjoblink.com/jobs/1191955

Overview

This senior leadership position directs the Adolescent Services Unit (ASU) within the Family Services Division of DCF. The ASU focuses on the juvenile justice, residential, and adolescent services systems in Vermont ensuring a trauma informed, racially equitable, and gender responsive system of care that is inclusive of youth and family voice. This position will lead the unit ensuring adequate communication and support to the FSD District offices, DMH, DAIL, DOC and other state agencies as relevant, and coordinate ongoing juvenile justice reform and adolescent services planning efforts with partners at the local, state and national level. It will focus on the adolescent youth continuum of needs in Vermont, including juvenile justice and the needs of older adolescents in the foster care system who are transitioning to adulthood and aging out of the foster care system. This Adolescent Services Director will work to develop and expand the capacity to serve youth who are in or exposed to the juvenile justice system with locked, staff secure, community-based, and preventative approaches.

This position will develop evaluation and continuous quality improvement strategies to ensure effective implementation of juvenile justice reform and systems approaches to ensure improved outcomes for adolescents involved with DCF. It will also have a focus on the development of funding strategies including federal grant opportunities through ACF HHS, OJJDP, IV-E and other sources as applicable.

This position will work to prepare the Department to finalize the implementation of the Raise the Age Law (Act 201) passed in 2018 to extend the juvenile jurisdiction to youth up to the age of 20 by April 1, 2025.

The Adolescent Services Director position is public facing, and will be responsive to legislative, public, and media requests in matters related to juvenile justice and older youth practices in Vermont.

Environmental Factors

Duties are performed both in the central office and field office setting, with extensive travel required, for which private means of transportation must be available. Attendance at a variety of divisional, department, agency and multi-group conferences can be anticipated, some involving a leadership or chairperson role. Night and evening meetings may be anticipated involving individuals from several disciplines and advocacy groups. Employee and client situations with significant stress and emotional overtones are predictable.

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