Job Description
Announcement #2024-276 Issue Date: 09-12-24 Closing Date: 09-25-24 Victims Advocate Behavioral Health Department of Tribal Health Hourly Wage: $19.14/Regular/Full-Time Victim advocates are professionals trained to support victims of crime. Advocates offer victims information, emotional support, and help finding resources and filling out paperwork. Sometimes, advocates go to court with victims. Advocates may also contact organizations, such as criminal justice or social service agencies, to get help or information for victims. Some advocates staff crisis hotlines, run support groups, or provide in-person counseling. Victim advocates may also be called victim service providers, victim/witness coordinators, or victim/witness specialists.
Examples of Work Performed: Provides training, education, and awareness to local schools, agencies, and businesses on victimization, crime prevention, victim's legal rights & protections, criminal justice processes and other subjects such as sex trafficking, date rape, and domestic violence.
Advocate walks together with victims/survivors of sex-trafficking providing them emotional support, connecting them to needed services, and walking alongside them on their journey of healing.
Provide innovative, trauma-informed, wrap-around-based, intensive case management for victims identified through local agencies, outreach, referral, or the hotline.
Assist Victims with intake(s), create individualized safety planning & goal setting, and maintain progress notes for each client; including follow up interviews every 6 months.
Maintain case notes and files in an orderly, up-to-date manner, and assist in improving efficiency of reporting, maintaining clear confidentiality policies.
Assist clients in accessing resources to help meet their individualized goals. Advocate on their behalf with government organizations and community services to increase their opportunity for success.
Assist clients in accessing resources to help meet their individualized goals. Advocate on their behalf with government organizations and community services to increase their opportunity for success.
Attend applicable trainings (local, travel, & on-line).
Advocates support clients as they progress through the medical and legal systems, providing advocacy-based counseling, referrals, and safety planning in a sensitive and supportive manner.
Facilitate group sessions, assist with training & mentoring volunteers, and provide presentations & training to community partners.
Providing assistance to victims with Victim Compensation applications.
Assisting victims find emergency shelter.
Notifying victims of inmates release or escape.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of Historical Trauma and Intergenerational Trauma, and knowledgeable on complex trauma and the impact of complex trauma on the brain.
Ability to demonstrate knowledge and implementation of trauma-informed care.
Ability to diligently seek, and reach out, in creative ways to assist victims of crime to offer them hope and support.
Knowledge, experience, and willingness to conduct presentations and trainings to large groups.
Ability to work with women, children, youth, and vulnerable populations, and respond to crisis and/or escalated behavior with calm and confidence demeanor.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
Ability to organize, discern, and problem-solve creatively and under pressure.
Demonstrate initiative with researching and accessing relevant resources in the community.
Must have excellent interpersonal and professional skills, verbal, and written communication skills.
Knowledge of basic Case Management principles and how to apply them in their case notes and goal setting with clients.
Ability to be flexible and able to respond to leadership directives in a timely manner.
Knowledge of advocacy work as it pertains to victims of crime.
Knowledge of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking and how it
affects victims.
Ability to give oral testimony in court on behalf of clients.
Minimum Requirements: High School Diploma and two years' experience working with victims of crime or other vulnerable populations.
Ability to maintain confidentiality. (Required)
Successful completion and certification of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Trainings.
Capacity to work non-customary work hours.
Must not have any criminal record against women, children, youth, or vulnerable populations.
Must pass a pre-employment background check.
Must possess a valid Washington State Driver's License with the ability to obtain a Yakama Nation Driving permit.
Required to pass a pre-employment drug test.
Preferred Requirements: Enrolled Yakama Preference, but all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
Job Tags
Hourly pay, Full time, Local area, Flexible hours,