Program Coordinator, Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project – Dec 20

Posted by Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project on December 7, 2021

If you are passionate about keeping young people out of adult jails and prisons and are excellent at what you do, apply for this full-time position today!  Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP) seeks a Program Coordinator to provide comprehensive strategic, administrative, and logistical support to our case advocacy team. The Program Coordinator will work in partnership with YSRP staff and client-partners to support activities across YSRP’s integrated mitigation, reentry and policy advocacy model. The Program Coordinator will lead on the coordination and documentation of core YSRP case program activities, including but not limited to: Intergenerational Healing Circles, Mutual Responsibility Agreements, Client Fund Administration, and Reentry Resource Development. The Program Coordinator is a full-time, exempt, staff position that will report to YSRP’s Director of Advocacy. The Program Coordinator’s role is critical in effectuating YSRP’s comprehensive case advocacy model, which seeks to lessen the duration and impact of adult criminal sentences on children and families in and around Philadelphia.

About YSRP: YSRP seeks to end the practice of charging youth as adults. In the meantime, YSRP seeks to lessen the duration and impact of adult criminal sentences on children and their families, who are primarily low-income and Black and Brown. Through individual cases and systemic policy advocacy, we work to transform the experiences of children prosecuted in the adult criminal justice system, and to ensure that children who have contact with the adult justice system can return home and live full lives with dignity. We partner with court-involved youth, their families, and lawyers to develop holistic, humanizing narratives that mitigate the facts of each case in an effort to avoid adult incarceration and provide decision-makers with actionable alternatives. With a commitment to elevating our client-partners’ agency and self-determined goals, we make crucial connections to community resources, providing our youth and Juvenile Lifer client-partners with access to supportive services including in the areas of education, healthcare, housing, and employment. Finally, we work to raise awareness of the issues that face young people in the adult criminal justice system, and to reform the system. For more information about YSRP’s mission, values and work, please visit our website.

Application review will start Monday, December 20, 2021.

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