Job Description

Job Title: Criminal Justice Specialist (LMHC, MHC-LP, LMSW, LCSW)

Job Summary:

As a Criminal Justice Specialist, you’ll deliver evidence-based, mobile mental health services with high fidelity to the ACT model, supporting adults with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders, and extensive criminal legal system involvement. You’ll build strong therapeutic relationships through community outreach, engagement, and psychoeducation while helping clients achieve recovery, maintain stability, and successfully complete their ATI mandates.

In this role, you’ll serve as a vital liaison between clients, the Nathaniel ACT Team, and the criminal legal system. You’ll provide court updates, coordinate continuity of care during periods of incarceration, advocate with defense attorneys and other justice partners, and help clients navigate complex legal processes while ensuring their behavioral health needs remain at the forefront of treatment planning.

As part of a multidisciplinary ACT team, you’ll contribute broadly to all aspects of client care. While you bring specialized expertise in criminal justice, ACT clinicians serve as both generalists and specialists, allowing you to apply your clinical strengths, expand your expertise, and provide comprehensive, person-centered services that promote long-term recovery and successful community integration.

This is a unique opportunity to join one of the nation’s pioneering ACT Alternative-to-Incarceration programs, where you’ll make a meaningful impact by helping individuals build healthier, more stable lives while advancing equitable, treatment-focused alternatives to incarceration.

Salary: The salary for this role is $66,950 per year

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Monday – Friday from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Location Address: 25 Chapel Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation.

Workplace Flexibility: Flexible – Staff have flexibility to complete their work day from home or another suitable space, typically after reporting to the office and/or engaging in field or community-based work. Office starts 4 days per week, and Community work is 5 days per week, can finish notes at home.

What You Will Be Doing:

Provide at least 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community and complete expected minimum monthly treatment contacts, including leading groups when clinically indicated.
Attend and participate in daily team meetings to discuss clients’ clinical and case management issues and needs.
Attend and participate in daily team meetings to discuss clients’ clinical and case management issues and needs.
Complete documentations required by the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH) licensing guidelines, NYS Medicaid billing guidelines as well as per CASES ACT Policy and Procedures.
Collaborate with client’s support network and other service providers on treatment planning, service coordination, and case management support with the goal of promoting client’s recovery and stability in the community.
Provide clinical services that are anti-racist, gender-responsive, culturally humble, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, client-centered, and evidence-based.
Complete required documentations and toxicology tests for clients with active Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)order.
Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis.
Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice.

What We Are Looking For:

LMHC, MHC-LP, LMSW, LCSW, with current New York State license.
Experience working with individuals with serious mental illness, and/or co-occurring substance use disorders.
Experience with various evidence-based models pertaining to treatment of substance use, and mental illness.
A team player, highly organized and self-motivated.
Individuals with lived experience are encouraged to apply.

Preferred Skills:

Experience working with individuals involved in the criminal legal system.
Fluency in Spanish.

Benefits:

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including:

Medical
Dental
Vision
Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually, plus an additional summer self-care day
12 Paid Holidays per year
Retirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%
Employee Referral Program
Visit www.cases.org/careers/ to learn more about benefits offered by the CASES

Although we would love to learn about the skills of every candidate, only selected candidates that are selected will receive a response. We encourage you to apply for any position(s) you feel you are qualified for.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.

Monday – Friday, 9am to 5pm ET
35 hours per week excluding breaks