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Youth Prevention Specialist (Afterschool Programs) 10.30 am – 7.00 pm
Position Summary Gang Alternative, Inc. implements various programs under its Positive Youth Development Pillar of Service. All of these programs use evidence-based curricula and are delivered either in-school or in an out-of-school (after school program) setting and are targeted to for elementary, middle and high school students. They focus on youth substance abuse prevention; healthy…
Youth Prevention Specialist, BLOC (Homestead) 10.30 am – 7.00pm
Position Summary Youth Prevention Specialists serve as liaisons to students for prevention and intervention services. The Youth Prevention Specialists are also responsible for facilitating sessions of evidence-based curricula, identifying additional needs of students through screening and assessments, developing student development plans, linking students to services, creating and maintaining client files, coordinating client development activities,…
Program Manager- Youth Violence Intervention Program
Position Summary Gang Alternative, Inc.’s Project VICE (Violence Intervention Through Community Engagement) is designed to expand upon the organization’s current OJJDP Youth Gang Suppression Program by incorporating a data-driven focus on the issue of gun violence and victimization. VICE will employ different Community Violence Intervention strategies using a multisystemic community coalition framework aimed at reducing…
Program Assistant – UPSCM Coalition
Position Summary Gang Alternative, Inc.’s Urban Partnership for Success Collaborative Miami is designed to synergize local prevention efforts to strengthen prevention capacity/infrastructure at the community-level and more effectively, prevent onset and progression of substance abuse and abuse-related problems across high-risk communities and among persons aged 9-20. The workplan of the Urban Partnership for Success Coalition…
Program Manager – Workforce Re-entry, Project GO
Position Summary The Program Manager maintains operational responsibility for implementing the Gang Alternative, Inc.’s Growth Opportunity (GO) Program. The goal of this program is to provide justice-involved 18-24 year olds living in high crime, high poverty communities who (i) have violent criminal records; (ii) are high school drops as a result of disciplinary reasons; (iii)…
Employment Specialist
Position Summary The Employment Specialist will maintain responsibility for supporting participants in attaining personal employment goals by providing job coaching, mentoring, job shadowing, on-the-job training, and work experience opportunities. They are responsible for identifying suitable employment opportunities for program participants along a defined career pathway. The goal help participants attain self-sufficiency by reducing barriers to…
Case Manager
Position Summary The goal of Project Action is to provide incarcerated individuals in Florida Department of Corrections pre and post release services, specifically occupational skills training, work readiness, and case management services pre-release and job placement and navigational case management post-release to help participants transition and re-integrate into their communities. The Case Manager will maintain…