Jail Reentry Care Coordinator Job Description | Grays Harbor County, WA
This job description defines a full-time Jail Reentry Care Coordinator position in the Housing & Community Services program at Coastal Community Action Program (CCAP), based in Aberdeen, Washington. The coordinator works with people who have a substance use disorder, frequent or lengthy incarceration, or unstable housing. Duties include meeting with people in custody at Grays Harbor County Jail, building individual reentry plans, referring clients to housing, treatment, health care, financial assistance, legal aid, and job placement, and working with jail medical and case management staff. The first minimum qualification is living and lived experience of incarceration.
how to use it
Use this description as a starting point for your own. It lists 11 duties that run from the first meeting in jail through referrals to community services, including data collection for grant reporting and regular contact with jail medical teams. Living and lived experience of incarceration is a minimum qualification, while a degree, Certified Peer Counselor training, and English and Spanish fluency are preferred. To adapt it, replace the agency, locations, pay range, and partner facilities with your own, and check the qualifications against your state’s peer certification rules. Read it together with the Grays Harbor statement of work, which shows how the role fits into the contract between the jail and the community provider.
who might use it
Program managers and human resources staff at community agencies, sheriff’s offices, and jails who are hiring for a reentry or jail-based care coordination role are the main audience. Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) grantees writing position descriptions for a grant budget or narrative will also find it useful, as will peer recovery programs that want to require living and lived experience for the job.