Support Prosecutor, LEAD/CoLEAD/Familiar Faces/Vital Programs Team | SCU | Criminal Division
Agency Name: Seattle City Attorney's Office
Position / Job Title : Support Prosecutor, LEAD/CoLEAD/Familiar Faces/Vital Programs Team | SCU | Criminal Division
Location: 701 5t St, Seattle, WA
Category : Attorney
Job Description: The Criminal Division is seeking a prosecutor to serve as an attorney on the LEAD/CoLEAD/Familiar Faces/Vital Programs Team within the Specialty Court Unit. The Support Prosecutor is an integral part of the LEAD/CoLEAD/Familiar Faces/Vital Team which seeks to reduce an individual’s impact on our community by closely working with community partners to address the underlying cause of the individual’s criminal behavior. This position is supervised by the Specialty Court Unit Supervisor. This position will be responsible for screening, reviewing, and filing incoming reports for enrolled program clients and collaborating with other units within the Criminal Division and/or with community partners to coordinate legal for enrolled program clients.
About the programs:
LEAD (Let Everyone Advance with Dignity/Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) aims to improve public health, public safety, and racial equity by providing long term, trauma informed, community- based case management to individuals with complex needs who face persistent challenges in connecting to community-based services and resources. Law enforcement is able to refer to LEAD in lieu of booking into jail for certain LEAD link
CoLEAD is an adaptation of the LEAD program that was created at the beginning of the COVID- 19 pandemic. “Co” stands for both COVID and Co-Responder. CoLEAD utilizes a hotel-based model of care providing intensive case management and residential on-site support to individuals with complex behavioral health needs who commonly commit law violations or exhibit problematic behavior related to unmet behavioral health conditions. CoLEAD link
Familiar Faces/Vital provides comprehensive and integrated services to adults who are experiencing behavioral health challenges, need an intensive level of community-based support, and may be experiencing homelessness. “Familiar Faces” refers to a population defined as individuals who are frequent utilizers of a King County jail and who also have a mental health and/or substance use condition. The Vital Program - King County
Link to Application: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/seattle/jobs/4662096/support-prosecutor-lead-colead-familiar-faces-vital-programs-team-scu-crimin/
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Application Deadline: October 01, 2024