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Pay Range:
$38.03 - $46.77 Hourly
Department:
Department of Community Justice (DCJ)
Job Type:
Regular Represented
Exemption Status:
United States of America (Non-Exempt)
Closing Date (Open Until Filled if No Date Specified):
November 01, 2026
The Opportunity:
Do you want to help shape the next chapter for justice-involved youth and help them build a foundation for success?
Are you an experienced case manager working with youth and families?
Do you believe that all youth are capable of turning their lives around?
If you answered yes to these questions, this job may be for you!
The Department of Community Justice Juvenile Services Division (JSD) is seeking committed and compassionate to join our team! This recruitment may be used to fill both bilingual English/Spanish language required and non-bilingual positions.
Juvenile Court Counselors (JCCs) serve as essential navigators for at-risk youth and their families within the court system, operating under the legal framework of ORS 419A.012. JCCs perform comprehensive and complex case management, evaluation, and supervision for at-risk youth and their families, ensuring community safety, accountability, and skill development.
Central to their work is the Juvenile Services Division’s evidence-based case management model, which emphasizes an integrative and holistic approach. JCCs do not simply monitor behavior; they actively foster long-term change by tailoring strategies to a youth’s specific strengths, cultural background, and environmental needs. By building strong relationships with community partners and engaging families to provide proactive support, JCCs aim to balance accountability with the skill development necessary for a youth's successful transition out of the justice system.
The duties include but are not limited to:
- Assist youth and families through the pre- and post-adjudication process in the court system using best practices of intake, investigation and supervision.
- Provide probation supervision for low, medium, and high-risk youth, utilizing evidence-based strategies tailored to each youth’s issues, strengths, needs, culture, and environmental influences.
- Be responsible for youth on diversion and probation, ensuring strict compliance with a Judge’s court order.
- Monitor multiple dockets, conduct thorough evaluations and make critical recommendations regarding a youth’s placement during the court process.
- Assess and make recommendations to the court to address the youth's and family's needs, including for youth found within the jurisdiction or in violation of release or probation conditions.
- Provide evaluation, investigation, counseling, case planning, social services, and adjudication for juveniles and their families.
- Effective records management and documentation of all contacts with youth.
- Actively engage the family to provide proactive support and guidance during and after the termination of probation services.
- Utilize the Juvenile Services Division’s prescribed, evidence-based, integrative supervision and case management model.
- Maintain frequent direct contact through office, home, and community visits or other youth community events to implement specialized programs and foster long-term behavioral change.
- Transport youth when needed between detention locations, court or placements.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with community partners, including local law enforcement, to ensure a holistic approach to meeting the needs of juveniles and their families.
The Department of Community Justice is looking for experienced case managers who can demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:
- Knowledge of the juvenile justice system and court process.
- Knowledge of the symptoms of physical and mental disorders, substance abuse and adjustment problems of juvenile offenders.
- Knowledge of the theories, methods and techniques of social casework, counseling, motivational and strength-based interviewing, child psychology and adolescent development.
- Knowledge and experience working with youth and families from culturally diverse communities.
- Appreciation and understanding of family dynamics, gender issues, cultural diversity, gender non-conforming persons and individual differences.
- Familiarity with community resources available to support youth and their families.
- Exceptional collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to build relationships with diverse clients and communities and interdisciplinary teams, including legal, law enforcement, and therapeutic partners.
- Highly self-reliant, extremely organized, skilled in time management, good at coordinating, prioritizing and distributing information.
- Ability to prepare well written reports to the Court.
- Extreme flexibility in terms of both work style and hours, and comfortable delivering services in client homes.
- Bilingual Spanish/English language proficiency (speak/read/write) for bilingual Spanish language required positions.
- Skilled in the areas of
ABOUT THE JUVENILE SERVICES DIVISION:
The Juvenile Services Division (JSD) ensures that the juvenile system will protect the public, provide fair and equitable accountability and deliver cost-effective, evidence-based services to system-involved youth and their families. JSD provides a continuum of juvenile services ranging from informal diversion, pre-adjudication support, formal probation, shelter care, electronic monitoring, mental health assessments and care coordination, outpatient and detention.
The Juvenile Services Division provides community supervision and diversion services for high-risk youth, and operates the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Facility. The Division is committed to reducing ethnic and racial disparities in juvenile justice, both increasing resources for at-risk youth and ceasing disparities in their treatment.
TO QUALIFY
We will consider any combination of relevant work experience, volunteering, education, and transferable skills as qualifying unless an item or section is labeled required. Please be clear and specific about how your background is relevant. For details about how we typically screen applications, review our overview of the selection process page.
Minimum Qualifications/Transferable Skills*:
- Bachelor’s degree with major coursework in child psychology, social work, counseling, criminal justice or related field or equivalent years of related experience; AND
- Two (2) years of professional counseling and/or case management experience working with clients in a social service or rehabilitative setting which includes one (1) year of working with high risk and/or high need youth, clients and families; AND
- Valid driver’s license in good standing; AND
- Proficient in Bilingual Spanish/English language (for Bilingual Spanish/English language requirement positions only. Final candidate must successfully pass the proficiency assessment through our language testing vendor.); AND
- Must pass a thorough background investigation which includes, but is not limited to a review of applicant’s criminal, civil, driving, military, educational and employment history prior to employment.
Preferred Qualifications/Transferable Skills*: You do not need to have the following preferred qualifications/transferable skills to qualify. However, keep in mind we may consider some or all of the following when identifying the most qualified candidates. Please clearly explain on your application how you meet any of the following preferred qualifications/transferable skills.
- More than two (2) years of professional counseling and/or case management experience working with clients in social service or rehabilitative setting and includes one (1) year of working with justice involved and/or complex trauma youth, clients and families;
- Knowledge of the Juvenile Justice System
- Experience with Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS)
- Experience using evidence based practices such as Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Effective Practices In Community Supervision (EPICS) or related techniques
