Violence Interrupter, BIVO

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist program by being a client liaison with community members in the target area, providing violence mediation services
• Avoid harm to clients and client confidentiality.
• Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality.
• Practice Universal Precautions/Standard Protocol & Procedures.
• Comply with any and all Federal, State, City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
• Reach out and market the program to the community via street outreach in order to recruit clients.
• Attend and help facilitate social/peer support events (i.e., community events and shooting response meetings, etc).
• In collaboration with the case managers, work with clients to break through barriers to client goals and to assist clients in advocating for themselves and in moving toward self-sufficiency.
• Aid in the creation and maintenance of client files as well as other paperwork affiliated with program functioning (i.e., contacts with high risk individuals, shootings and other acts of violence prevented, etc) and make copies of all client documents.
• Attend staff/outside agency meetings as requested.
• Follow-up with clients and with referral organizations regarding client contact and progress with referral organization.
• Follow-up with clients for a period of time after successful completion of their primary goals to assure client stability.
• Monitor clients' progress toward their goals (dates achieved) via regularly scheduled telephone contact and/or face-to-face home and office visits, and document via progress notes.
• Evaluate actual living conditions of clients through home visits.
• Prepare marketing materials for the program.
• Prescreen clients over the telephone for eligibility and may schedule intake appointments.
• Assist clients in completing all CAMBA intake applications and forms.
• Schedule appointments for clients with referral organizations.
• Escort clients to appointments (educational, medical, social service, etc.).
• Aid clients in completing applications for benefits and entitlements, and may process applications on clients' behalf.
• Input client data and client progress information into automated database.